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rapturemachine

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Registered: 2015-02-22

Posts: 4

Bspwm blank screen at launch [solved]

I just installed bspwm & sxhkd from the official repositories, and when I try to launch it, I get a blank screen.  I can't get a terminal or any applications to come up.

I followed the guide here for installation, except I installed from the official repos rather than using make.  I did not install the libxcb-ewmh1-dev workaround since I wasn't sure if it applied to my system.

I've gone through all the troubleshooting steps here, and all of them work!  urxvt comes up full-screen and centered, sxhkd is running, I made sure to copy the file rather than copy/pasting the text, and I've tried changing the meta key to Alt to see if it made a difference.  Unfortunately, no matter what I do, I can't get key bindings to do anything in bspwm.  I know my keyboard is working, since I can type in the urxvt window that comes up when I have urxvt in my .xinitrc.

I must be missing something.  What else can I do to troubleshoot this?

Last edited by rapturemachine (2015-02-22 21:52:28)

rapturemachine

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Registered: 2015-02-22

Posts: 4

Re: Bspwm blank screen at launch [solved]

I figured out my issue.  Somewhere along the line, while I was copying the files into the appropriate .config folders, I accidentally created some extra directories.  My sxhkdrc file was in a directory of the same name - ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc/ and same with my bspwmrc file.  When I moved them to the right directories, it started working.