First we are going to take a look at the launch.sh file to start polybar.
If you are on ArchMerge 6.3.1 awesome font is installed. You only need to install polybar.
If you are on ArchMergeD you need to install them both
yaourt -S polybar awesome-terminal-fonts
You can find nice awesome font icons for your configuration on this website.
http://fontawesome.io/cheatsheet/
Note : killall -q — q does not stand for quit but quiet. A quick ‘man killall’ in the terminal tells us that.
We explain what happens in the launch.sh and why it is there and what it does.
Then we take a look at the config file and advice you to go and read/bookmark this website for more info about your polybar configuration: https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/wiki
We go into the general settings and into the mainbar-i3 and discuss some of the more interesting elements.
Modules-left, modules-center and modules-right will be edited the most. You define what modules you want to see in those lines