bar
A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb (by LemonBoy)
bspwm
A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning (by baskerville)
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1,592 | 7,515 | |
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2.4 | 1.0 | |
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C | C | |
MIT License | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
bar
Posts with mentions or reviews of bar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-11.
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[wmutils] Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
OpenBSD, bed, nsxiv, bar, tewi
- What patch do I need to get this rectangle side bar in dwm?
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I wrote a status bar generator to learn async Rust, and Rust continues to amaze me
You can see the source code here. It's a tool for generating status bar output for text-based status bars like dzen2, xmobar, or lemonbar. Feedback welcome!
- Program to write text on top of my wallpaper
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Can I get a taskbar with BPSWM or i3?
It's optional though and you can easily replace it with something else. A lot of i3/bspwm users use something like polybar, lemonbar or yabar instead. When I was on bspwm I used tint2. These are all highly customizable, and tiling wm users tend to be the sort who want to customize them, which can be time consuming. But you can use almost anything, even something like the xfce4 panel if you want.
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Status bar for window manager
I like polybar but if you want something simpler, try lemonbar
- Polybar vs tint2
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Which DE do you prefer?
I now run bspwm, along with sxhkd, picom, and lemonbar, as separate userland runit services; my .xinitrc now reads exec dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 runsvdir -P "${HOME}/.local/service/"
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GUI
lemonbar
bspwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of bspwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.
- can't download and decompress git repo
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BSPWM?
Bspwm is a window manager. Configuration happens in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bspwm/bspwmrc, as per stated here: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm
- Multiple screens with different resolutions?
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What WM should I use?
Use BSPWM. It supports right clicks by default and its modular. You might want to look for status bars that work with it, slstatus does not work. Good luck, supremacist!
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What are some OpenSource apps that are the best of their kind?
I had not heard of bspwm but I am a fan of telling WMs. Looking at the documentation now, I really like the pragmatic approach lol https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm
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Changing layout of node
If you use the bspwm off of github instead of the old 0.9.10, you can use bspc node @parent -y next to cycle the split type of the parent of the focused. I added it ~1.5years ago, after baskerville added node -y horizontal and node -y vertical to set the split type of a node to vertical/horizontal ~2 years ago.
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How to use dump and load state?
Also bspwm's JSON generation and parsing is not great. If you have a window with quotes in its class name, bspwm, when dumping it, will not escape them generating invalid JSON (e.g. {"className":"the "cool" window",) that jq will not be able to read, and even worse, bspwm itself will not be able to read. (Yes, if a window's class name contains a " character, bspwm will fail to reload after you run wm -r #1362).
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How to install bspwm on ubuntu-22.04 and config it?
Just follow this guide
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[bspwm] yine yeşillik ama biraz farklısından
Pencere yöneticisi: bspwm
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bar and bspwm you can also consider the following projects:
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar [Moved to: https://github.com/polybar/polybar]
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
sxhkd - Simple X hotkey daemon
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
ly - display manager with console UI [Moved to: https://github.com/fairyglade/ly]
i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)
ly - display manager with console UI
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
ly-void - TUI display manager for Linux Void
bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11