bspwm — A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

joetemp · 2015-04-05 04:00:46

Hey there. Love bspwm. However... I'm trying to use the example panel configs found on the github page. Also, I'm trying to pipe my conky-cli config to lemonbar and I'm not having any luck. Here is my panel config:

http://pastebin.com/MaYeTN5e

Why doesn't this work? Thanks for the help in advance!

easysid · 2015-04-05 06:34:21

joetemp wrote:

Hey there. Love bspwm. However... I'm trying to use the example panel configs found on the github page. Also, I'm trying to pipe my conky-cli config to lemonbar and I'm not having any luck. Here is my panel config:
http://pastebin.com/MaYeTN5e
Why doesn't this work? Thanks for the help in advance!

Is the problem only with conky or other things, like status and clock, as well?
Do you have a .conkyrc? Try passing the config with conky -c <conky config>
Post your .conkyrc if above doesn't help.

Last edited by easysid (2015-04-05 06:35:18)

bloom · 2015-04-05 16:31:05

sxhkd now just relays motion events to a socket instead of spawning hundreds of processes.

You should remove the following bindings:

super + !button{1-3}
	bspc pointer -t %i %i

from you sxhkdrc.
(Or any binding that uses the exclamation mark.)

You shouldn't need to specify the socket path or the message template because the defaults are those of bspwm.

bloom · 2015-04-06 07:19:28

sxhkd now supports synchronous execution.

The following pointer grabbing binding must be used from now on:

super + button{1-3}
	; bspc pointer -g {move,resize_side,resize_corner}

Last edited by bloom (2015-04-06 07:25:35)

Halcyon522 · 2015-04-09 17:33:28

I just did this, and now I can't resize floating clients. What did I do wrong?

Here's the contents of my sxhkdrc:

#
# bspwm hotkeys
#
super + alt + Escape
bspc quit
super + w
bspc window -c
super + t
bspc desktop -l next
super + b
bspc desktop -B
super + {s,f}
bspc window -t {floating,fullscreen}
super + {grave,Tab}
bspc {window,desktop} -f last
super + apostrophe
bspc window -s last
super + {o,i}
bspc control --record-history off; \
bspc window {older,newer} -f; \
bspc control --record-history on
super + y
bspc window -w last.manual
super + m
bspc window -s biggest
super + {_,shift + }{h,j,k,l}
bspc window -{f,s} {left,down,up,right}
super + {_,shift + }c
bspc window -f {next,prev}
super + {comma,period}
bspc desktop -C {backward,forward}
super + bracket{left,right}
bspc desktop -f {prev,next}
super + ctrl + {h,j,k,l}
bspc window -p {left,down,up,right}
super + ctrl + {_,shift + }space
bspc {window -p cancel,desktop -c}
super + alt + {h,j,k,l}
bspc window -e {left -10,down +10,up -10,right +10}
super + alt + shift + {h,j,k,l}
bspc window -e {right -10,up +10,down -10,left +10}
super + ctrl + {1-9}
bspc window -r 0.{1-9}
super + {_,shift + }{1-9,0}
bspc {desktop -f,window -d} ^{1-9,10}
~button1
bspc pointer -g focus
super + button{1-3}
; bspc pointer -g {move,resize_side,resize_corner}
super + @button{1-3}
bspc pointer -u
#
# wm independent hotkeys
#
super + Return
urxvt
super + space
dmenu_run
# make sxhkd reload its configuration files:
super + Escape
pkill -USR1 -x sxhkd
super + shift + w
opera
super + shift + r
xterm -e ranger
super + shift + o
opera --proxy-pac-url=******************************
super + shift + v
vivaldi-preview --proxy-server=****************************
super + shift + t
thunar
super + shift + a
xterm -e alsamixer
super + shift + m
urxvt -e cmus
super + shift + s
sh .screenlock.sh
super + shift + ctrl + x
shutdown -h now
super + shift + ctrl + r
reboot
XF86AudioMute
ponymix toggle
XF86AudioRaiseVolume
ponymix increase 5%
XF86AudioLowerVolume
ponymix decrease 5%
XF86AudioPlay
cmus-remote -u
XF86AudioNext
cmus-remote -n
XF86AudioPrev
cmus-remote -r
super + shift + n
urxvt -e nmtui

Last edited by Halcyon522 (2015-04-09 17:34:28)

bloom · 2015-04-10 09:22:01

Halcyon522 wrote:

I just did this, and now I can't resize floating clients.

You're probably not using the Git version of sxhkd.

Halcyon522 · 2015-04-10 14:10:40

You're probably not using the Git version of sxhkd.

You're absolutely right, I'm not. I should have thought of that.

Halcyon522 · 2015-04-10 14:15:43

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Last edited by Halcyon522 (2015-04-27 18:20:46)

lounge · 2015-04-11 14:20:03

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Last edited by lounge (2015-04-11 19:54:52)

cris9288 · 2015-04-15 20:16:37

So...I must be missing something here. None of my desktop related commands are working on a fresh install of bspwm and sxhkd. I know sxhkd is running because I was able to change my default terminal. Htop shows that 'bspwm -c ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc' is running. My config file is marked as executable (I just copied from /usr/share/docs/bspwm/examples).

Also bspc query -D only returns Desktop1, so it looks like the creation of the desktops is failing for some reason? I am new to bspwm, so it's possible I'm missing something.

EDIT: I guess I posted too soon. If I just run my bspwmrc from the command line everything seems to work. I guess I'll just add that to my xinitrc

Last edited by cris9288 (2015-04-15 20:31:40)

octodev1995 · 2015-04-19 04:33:37

Hello there everyone! As of recent I have been having a problem with BSPWM. For some odd reason I can't use the fish shell or any other shell with BSPWM. Bash is the only shell that works, this was not the case about two weeks ago, I had fish running under BSPWM perfectly. Also two weeks ago I installed BSPWM and SXHKD through the official arch repositories, but now I have compiled them from source. Could that possibly be the problem?

edit: Okay, so I just installed BSPWM/SXHKD through the official arch repositories and the fish shell works perfectly. The only problem is that BSPWM does not function as it should, but when compiled from source everything works perfectly except for using the fish shell. Something must be going wrong when I am compiling it from source?

This is the link I followed for BSPWM, https://github.com/windelicato/dotfiles … r-dummies/.

Last edited by octodev1995 (2015-04-19 04:41:52)

octodev1995 · 2015-04-19 04:46:38

The only thing different from the last time I was using bspwm is that I'm using fish shell now.

Are you having issues with fish shell and running bspwm aswell?

cris9288 · 2015-04-21 01:45:37

Is the correct syntax for setting per window split_ratios as follows:

 bspc rule -a Pidgin split_ratio=0.80

I can't seem to get this rule to work for any window.

bloom · 2015-04-26 13:38:29

cris9288 wrote:

Is the correct syntax for setting per window split_ratios as follows:
 bspc rule -a Pidgin split_ratio=0.80 
I can't seem to get this rule to work for any window.

You have to add a split_dir=DIR to your rule.

joetemp · 2015-05-06 01:53:24

So, I'm still unable to pipe my conkyrc to Lemonbar. Here are both configs:

panel:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joete … fbae/panel

conkyrc:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joete … er/conkyrc

joetemp · 2015-05-06 03:15:18

I know one of the problems is that I don't have a styling rule set in panel_bar.

See here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joete … /panel_bar

The problem is... I don't exactly know how to do that.

student975 · 2015-05-29 03:20:56

Closing Firefox removes the window, but 'firefox' process is still running (say, on the next Firefox starting I get an error message about other Firefox instance). So I'm forced to kill a process. How to cure?

The issue doesn't depend on the way the application was started. And the worse thing is it takes place occasionally.

Last edited by student975 (2015-05-30 18:51:49)

student975 · 2015-05-29 18:16:15

Say, I have copied some text from browser to mouse buffer and inserted the text from the buffer to terminal (urxvt at my case). I'd want terminal window to be focused after inserting (and it isn't). How to configure to force focus grabbing at this use case?

perhaps · 2015-05-29 18:25:57

hi,
I really like this window manager, thanks for your hardwork!

however,I encountered a little problem! In order to reach the on-the-fly reload function,I put this into .xinitrc

while true; do
bspwm 2> ~/.bspwmlog
done

and bind 'bspc quit' to a key. but interestingly, when i press that key, it seems newly started bspwm can't grab the exiting instances(deb,xterm .eg),you can't resize/move them .

does anyone konw how to modify the scripts?

Last edited by perhaps (2015-05-29 18:26:58)

student975 · 2015-05-29 18:47:18

student975 wrote:

Say, I have copied some text from browser to mouse buffer and inserted the text from the buffer to terminal (urxvt at my case). I'd want terminal window to be focused after inserting (and it isn't). How to configure to force focus grabbing at this use case?

Have found myself:

~button{1,2}
	; bspc pointer -g focus

Supplantr · 2015-05-30 16:52:45

perhaps wrote:

... In order to reach the on-the-fly reload function...

Is it ever necessary to fully exit and restart bspwm to reload configuration? All settings can be changed at runtime.

perhaps · 2015-05-31 08:01:30

Supplantr wrote:

perhaps wrote:
... In order to reach the on-the-fly reload function...
Is it ever necessary to fully exit and restart bspwm to reload configuration? All settings can be changed at runtime.

Sometimes I did some changes and want to see what's defference has been made, especials trying newly installed applications,it would be convenient

perhaps · 2015-05-31 08:02:09

Supplantr wrote:

perhaps wrote:
... In order to reach the on-the-fly reload function...
Is it ever necessary to fully exit and restart bspwm to reload configuration? All settings can be changed at runtime.

Sometimes I did some changes and want to see what's defference has been made, especials trying newly installed applications,it would be convenient

student975 · 2015-05-31 11:14:15

I'd want to start (via keyboard shortcut) an application (say, ncmpcpp) in terminal in floating mode. The issue is a window class is just 'urxvt', so I don't know how to add a rule to force floating. The only place 'ncmpcpp' is present in xprop output is just a command line.

So, to be more general, the question is: how to attach a rule to program(s) with given context in command line? What is your hack?

Or, another way can be selected: to add some option to urxvtc to set class name. But I haven't found the last one.

//--------------------------------------------------------

Ugh.. Urxvt has got 'name' option

Last edited by student975 (2015-05-31 11:19:34)

madmaurice · 2015-06-08 04:30:55

Hey folks,

First of all i'm running bspwm since forever now and i absolutely love it, thank you for this awesome piece of software.

Next thing i'd like to address is i just updated the git package from 999-1 to 1000-1 and i've ran into a problem here:

I'm using bspwm on a laptop often with an external monitor connected.

Now as of version 1000-1 it doesn't let me open any windows on an empty monitor but opens it on the other one, until i move a window to that monitor.
I guess it has to do with the focus_follows_pointer mechanism.

EDIT: Same problem with switching desktops

Now the question i have is that a bug or a misconfiguration?

config used with 999-1 and 1000-1.
bspwmrc: http://pastebin.com/WErunaQi
EDIT: sxhkdrc: http://pastebin.com/MMEGHVhL

Thanks in advance.

EDIT2: Opened up an issue on github: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/269

Last edited by madmaurice (2015-06-10 09:57:22)

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