1 Topic by zapper (edited by zapper 2020-06-08 04:59:47)

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Topic: Can't get bspwm working...

has anyone gotten this window manager to work? I really wanted to use it, it looks very lightweight and minimal and yet usable at the same time. smile

But I keep getting this weird bug of not being able to use keybindings and therefore, I have to reboot again and again to troubleshoot to see why I cannot use this window manager...

I really wanted to use it, but it seems buggy. Anyone confirm if they can get it working?

I wonder if gentoo's instructions for configuring it would work. hmm

ps, I tried gentoo's configuration guide and it failed, and other guides online too!

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2 Reply by dikasp2

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Re: Can't get bspwm working...

see section "troubleshoothing"
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bspwm

also there is plenty another tiling wm
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … w_managers

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Re: Can't get bspwm working...

I didn't find the ArchWiki troubleshooing section as useful as that in the
configuration section. Essentially, all I did was install the `sxhkd` package,
followed by:

mkdir ~/.config/{bspwm,sxhkd}
cp /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/* ~/.config/bspwm
cp /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/sxhkdrc ~/.config/sxhkd

I was able to get a terminal running by adding an exec line in my ~/.xinitrc;
beyond that I have not looked into anything beyond getting the window manager
in question to function.

4 Reply by zapper (edited by zapper 2020-06-21 22:35:40)

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Re: Can't get bspwm working...

I actually figured out how to get it working, but the documentation, etc... wasn't very good so I switched back to i3wm. Especially because keybinding changes are ultra simple. wink

with i3wm anyways.

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