Wbar for Debian --------------- An initial Wbar configuration was created so that Wbar will work out-of-the-box on new installations. You can safely remove the recommended packages, if you prefer other icons or fonts. If you upgrade from version 1.3.3 you need to replace every hyphen in the first paragraph of .wbar with two hyphens. EXAMPLE ------- OLD: c: wbar -bpress -above-desk -vbar -pos right -isize 64 -idist 5 -nanim 4 -falfa 65 NEW: c: wbar --bpress --above-desk --vbar --pos right --isize 64 --idist 5 --nanim 4 --falfa 65 You must also set the correct path to your background image like i: /usr/share/pixmaps/wbar/dock.png The make-conf.sh which is located in /usr/share/wbar can help you with creating an initial configuration. Just copy the output from /tmp to $HOME. Finally you can also edit the config files by hand in /etc/wbar.d/wbar.cfg or on a per user basis in ~/.wbar It is also possible to use the auto-completion feature of Bash, if you have bash-completion installed, to create a startup command of wbar on the commandline. All options are described in wbar(1). Furthermore please take a look at the official README file. Launch Wbar =========== Wbar starts automatically on systems which adhere to the XDG specification. If you remove /etc/xdg/autostart/wbar.desktop, wbar will not start system-wide anymore. You could also override this behaviour by placing a similar desktop file in ~/.config/autostart and by changing all undesired settings. However the preferred way for enabling or disabling autostart files is to use session managers for desktop environments like Razor-qt or LXDE. You can also start wbar by simply typing wbar in your favourite terminal application. If you use window managers like Openbox you can launch wbar automatically on startup by adding an entry to your autostart file like wbar &