Bspwm
bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. It has support for EWMH and multiple monitors, and is configured and controlled through messages.
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Installation
Install bspwm or bspwm-git from the AUR. You will also want to install sxhkd or sxhkd-git, a simple X hotkey daemon used to communicate with bspwm through bspc as well as launch your applications of choice.
To start bspwm on login, add the following to your .xinitrc:
sxhkd & exec bspwm
Configuration
Example configuration is found on GitHub.
Copy bspwmrc to ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc, sxhkdrc to ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc and make bspwmrc executable with chmod +x ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc.
Documentation for bspwm is found by running man bspwm.
There is also documentation for sxhkd found by running man sxhkd.
These two files are where you will be setting wm settings and keybindings, respectively.
Troubleshooting
The following environmental variables may need to be defined:
echo $BSPWM_SOCKET echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
If either of these do not respond with a value, then go to your /etc/profile and add the following lines:
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="~/.config" export BSPWM_SOCKET="/tmp/bspwm-socket"
See also
- Mailing List: bspwm at librelist.com.
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=149444 - Arch BBS thread
- https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm - GitHub project
- https://github.com/windelicato/dotfiles/wiki/bspwm-for-dummies - earsplit's "bspwm for dummies"