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Port details on branch 2026Q1
polybar Fast and easy-to-use status bar
3.7.2_3 x11 on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 3.7.2_3Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: jbo@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-01-31 00:30:06
Last Update: 2026-01-31 00:21:21
Commit Hash: 6a72812
License: MIT
WWW:
https://github.com/polybar/polybar
Description:
The main purpose of Polybar is to help users create awesome status bars. It has built-in functionality to display information about the most commonly used services. Some of the services included so far: Systray icons Window title Playback controls and status display for MPD using libmpdclient ALSA volume controls Workspace and desktop panel for bspwm and i3 Workspace module for EWMH compliant window managers Keyboard layout and indicator status CPU and memory load indicator Battery display Network connection details Backlight level Date and time label Time-based shell script execution Command output tailing User-defined menu tree Inter-process messaging And more...
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Manual pages:
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/polybar-3.7.2_3/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/polybar-3.7.2_3/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/polybar-3.7.2_3/MIT
  4. bin/polybar
  5. bin/polybar-msg
  6. etc/polybar/config.ini
  7. share/bash-completion/completions/polybar
  8. share/zsh/site-functions/_polybar
  9. share/zsh/site-functions/_polybar_msg
  10. @owner
  11. @group
  12. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • polybar>0:x11/polybar
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/x11/polybar/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11/polybar
  • pkg install polybar
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: polybar
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1767830027 SHA256 (polybar-3.7.2.tar.gz) = e2feacbd02e7c94baed7f50b13bcbf307d95df0325c3ecae443289ba5b56af29 SIZE (polybar-3.7.2.tar.gz) = 494383

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SHA256 (455d63611a695ffe4fe372272be28f4f6d9b90d3.patch) = fbd0ff540e769284b4abcee9b4067bee7b0bad1c2ee9cca9f146e2faaa89e45c SIZE (455d63611a695ffe4fe372272be28f4f6d9b90d3.patch) = 895

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
polybar
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest3.7.2_33.7.2_3-3.7.2_23.7.2_3n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly3.7.2_33.7.2_3-3.7.2_23.7.2_3n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest3.7.2_33.7.2_3-3.7.2_23.7.2_33.6.3_1-3.6.3_1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly3.7.2_33.7.2_3-3.7.2_23.7.2_33.7.13.7.13.7.1
FreeBSD:15:latest3.7.2_33.7.2_3n/a-n/an/a3.7.13.7.1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly3.7.2_33.7.2_3n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest3.7.2_33.7.2_3n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. xcb-proto>=1.9 : x11/xcb-proto
  2. ipc.h : x11-wm/i3
  3. cmake : devel/cmake-core
  4. ninja : devel/ninja
  5. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  6. python3.11 : lang/python311
  7. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
Runtime dependencies:
  1. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
Library dependencies:
  1. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  2. libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
  3. libuv.so : devel/libuv
  4. libxcb-ewmh.so : x11/xcb-util-wm
  5. libxcb-icccm.so : x11/xcb-util-wm
  6. libxcb-image.so : x11/xcb-util-image
  7. libxcb-util.so : x11/xcb-util
  8. libxcb-xrm.so : x11/xcb-util-xrm
  9. libxcb-cursor.so : x11/xcb-util-cursor
  10. libcurl.so : ftp/curl
  11. libjsoncpp.so : devel/jsoncpp
  12. libmpdclient.so : audio/libmpdclient
  13. libpulse.so : audio/pulseaudio
  14. libxcb-xkb.so : x11/libxcb
  15. libinotify.so : devel/libinotify
  16. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for polybar-3.7.2_3: ALSA=off: Shows volume and mute state for Alsa CURSOR=on: Required for click and scroll settings DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support GITHUB=on: Shows the unread notification count I3=on: Uses the i3 IPC to display information IPC=on: Built-in IPC support MPD=on: Support for controlling MPD PULSEAUDIO=on: PulseAudio sound server support TESTS=off: Build testsuite XKEYBOARD=on: Shows the current layout and active indicators ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
x11_polybar
USES:
cmake compiler:c++11-lang gnome localbase:ldflags pkgconfig python:build xorg
pkg-message:
For install:
Polybar was originally built with Linux in mind, so certain modules do not function in FreeBSD. Working modules: - bspwm - cpu - date - github - i3 - ipc (polybar-msg method does not seem to work) - memory - menu - mpd - script - text - xkeyboard - xwindow - xworkspaces (not extensively tested) Broken modules: - filesystem - network (requires wireless_tools) - temperature (requires /sys/class/thermal/* in sysfs) - volume (requires full alsa, not a wrapper) Unknown: - backlight - battery - xbacklight
Master Sites:
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  1. https://github.com/polybar/polybar/releases/download/3.7.2/
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Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
3.7.2_3
31 Jan 2026 00:21:21
commit hash: 6a728123dc631755cbd7d0cf1cafa0c1a9eae0a1commit hash: 6a728123dc631755cbd7d0cf1cafa0c1a9eae0a1commit hash: 6a728123dc631755cbd7d0cf1cafa0c1a9eae0a1commit hash: 6a728123dc631755cbd7d0cf1cafa0c1a9eae0a1 files touched by this commit		 Daniel Engberg (diizzy) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/polybar: Unbreak on FreeBSD 15+

Don't utilize libinotify module in upsteam's build framework on 15+

Approved by:	blanket (just fix it)

(cherry picked from commit b54d81f67f9369591f3f7ec0f44c8d03043a8f0d)

Number of commits found: 1
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