bspwm
A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning (by baskerville)
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By KevinNThomas
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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
dotfiles
Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-16.
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Riced out my Gentoo just how I like it. With a Ryzen 3900X and 32 gigs of RAM, Gentoo is the perfect OS for me - for gaming, software dev, and even music production.
I'll plug my dotfiles here too lol: https://gitlab.com/KevinNThomas/dotfiles
- [bspwm] Gentoo Dracula Ultrawide
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[bspwm] Ultrawide resolution + tiling window manager is a match made in heaven
Totally! This repo is a little out of date but I think the firefox css is mainly up to date: https://gitlab.com/KevinNThomas/dotfiles/-/tree/master/firefox
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bspwm and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
minimal-functional-fox - A minimal, yet functional Firefox userChrome configuration.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
fet.sh - 🐢 a fetch written in posix shell without any external commands (sponsored by https://git.io/kiwmi)
i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
papirus-icon-theme - Pixel perfect icon theme for Linux
bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.