Bspwm Alternatives

bspwm reviews and mentions

• The Future Is Niri
  22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2025
• well... thinkpads are awesome
  2 projects | dev.to | 21 Dec 2024

  Over on Linux, I’ve been learning kinda a-lot about linux tools and workflows. I've recently got into window managers, bspwm was my first one and I'm thinking of moving towards a Arch+Hyprland setup in future. Setting it up was way easier than I thought, and I got inspired by a YouTuber named jvscholz, who’s all about minimalism and productivity.

• AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
  28 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2024

  The biggest QOL improvements imo are found in the approach to the user-facing API design.

  Compare basic multi-monitor commands in something like bspwm[1] or yabai[2][3] to twms on Windows where this is typically handled transparently by directional `move` and `focus` commands understanding monitor boundaries.

  Besides this, Whim has implemented a very functional ctrl+p style command palette which provides a great interface for more advanced on-the-fly/one-time window manager interactions.

  With komorebi I think that having different border colours to indicate different types of containers is very helpful (one colour for single window stacks, a different colour for monocle containers, a different colour for stacks with multiple windows), as well as custom window-based work area offsets[4] (so if you have an ultrawide monitor with only a single window on a workspace, you can add offsets to the sides so it doesn't stretch across the whole width and give poor usability).

  It's not really any one "big thing" but rather a difference in approach which adds up over many small design decisions.

  [1]: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/563

• can't download and decompress git repo
  1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 29 Oct 2023
• BSPWM?
  1 project | /r/NixOS | 25 Aug 2023

  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?
  2 projects | /r/bspwm | 9 May 2023
• What WM should I use?
  2 projects | /r/archlinux | 19 Apr 2023

  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!

• What are some OpenSource apps that are the best of their kind?
  5 projects | /r/opensource | 15 Apr 2023

  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

• Changing layout of node
  1 project | /r/bspwm | 2 Apr 2023

  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.

• How to use dump and load state?
  1 project | /r/bspwm | 2 Apr 2023

  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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