#leveled up my bspwm config

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dusk mist
ripe reef
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setup looks clean

ripe reef
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@dusk mist does bspwm have the screen tearing issue that i3 has fixed my picom?

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Or its just a x11 issue?

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I was wondering if i should setup i3 or bspwm

dusk mist
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Ye basically all x11 window managers have screen tearing
Except the once that have their own compositor
BSPWM doesn't have a compositor so I use picom

ripe reef
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But i3 gaps was not on the software manager

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Might use bspwm but i3 tells about the errors u get in .config

dusk mist
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BSPWM has very, very little config you need to do with the window manager itself so you should be fine

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My BSPWM config is literally 15 lines of code

ripe reef
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I probably will just use rofi , polybar and change colors thats all i would do

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Bspwm by default has gaps between windows?

dusk mist
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Yes bsp has gaps by default

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You can change how much gaps there are

ripe reef
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Maybe ill just use your config then lol

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Polybar ill config myself

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Even rofi

dusk mist
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Keep in mind that for BSPWM to use hotkeys and key bindings you need sxhkd too, the X hotkey daemon.

ripe reef
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Ohhhh

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Is there any install guide?

dusk mist
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There in the sxhkd config file there will only be keybindings

ripe reef
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For me it would be windows key its the same for you?

dusk mist
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What have you set windows key to

ripe reef
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For i3 its super for me

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Rest is default

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Super key would be my windows key

fading basin
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this is so good

ripe reef
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@dusk mist i kinda configured basic bspwm keybinds and also added polybar

dusk mist
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nice

ripe reef
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gotta give it a theme now

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thats a pain the colors

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allacritty also ill use

dusk mist
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I like the rose pine colour scheme
The colour scheme I use is a modified build of rose pine

ripe reef
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ohhhh

dusk mist
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Alacritty is a good terminal

ripe reef
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even i like the rose pine

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but i wanted a bit gruvbox

dusk mist
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Gruvbox is nice

ripe reef
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yess

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but wait how do you put the themes on bspwm

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specially the terminal its white by default

dusk mist
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Alacritty has a config file over at ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml

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There you can define colours, fonts, etc

ripe reef
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ohhh

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okay okay

dusk mist
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Colours are defined by hex values, eg: #FFFFFF is pure white and #000000 is pitch black

ripe reef
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noted

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and the desktop theme ?

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like we gotta set the colors by ourselves or is there prebuild theme we can use?

dusk mist
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You don't really "theme" the window manager itself.
You only theme the programs and apps around it, like the bar, to give it a "themed" look

ripe reef
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ohhhh

dusk mist
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Try looking at how colours are defined in my alacritty config is my dotfiles repo if that helps

ripe reef
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so rofi the allacrity we gotta do seprately

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and the windows ? like the transparency and borders?

ripe reef
dusk mist
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Borders and border colours are defined in the BSPWM config file

dusk mist
ripe reef
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thanks alottt !!!

ripe reef
# dusk mist Yup

weird question but when we login we see the cinnamon logo with it
bspwm is just a white circle icon

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is it the same for you too?

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when switching between the sessions

dusk mist
ripe reef
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that was pretty weird when i saw it

dusk mist
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Guess it is just a window manager after all

ripe reef
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lmao

ripe reef
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@dusk mist i just configured nitrogen used your rofi theme and changed the colors to cyan xdd

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your rofi theme is cool

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also i didnt have the jetbrains nerd font so i just used noto sans bold

dusk mist
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thanks i used the rofi gruvbox theme as a base and changed the colours and padding

ripe reef
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btw most of the things are configured its just that WINDOWS XP AAH looking tabs lol

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also nitrogen dosent set the walpaper to the full screen

dusk mist
ripe reef
ripe reef
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startup command

dusk mist
ripe reef
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i was confsued which font to use

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mostly everyone uses jetbrains nerd font

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@dusk mist

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while referring your polybar conf the workspaces icon shows unmatched and theres nothing for me

ripe reef
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ah i installed the nerd font now its fine

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@dusk mist i like how you put apps and rofi drun on clicking it

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saves space

dusk mist
ripe reef
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yea i configured it

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lemme show mine more like yours i just changed colors lol

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this is what i did

polybarrice.png
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removed the power-menu for now gonna install later

dusk mist
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kool looks nice

ripe reef
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@dusk mist

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i saw other configs too

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they used scripts and all which were unnecessary

ripe reef
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@dusk mist

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since i shifted to bspwm my window key which is the super key for bspwm
stops working until i reconnect keyboard

im getting this issue

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i dont think its a keyboard issue as its a new one and it happened when i shifted to bspwm

ripe reef
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it was working on the laptop keyboard but stopped on external keyboard though reconnecting fixes it

dusk mist
ripe reef
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now the main part comes in is i gotta config bspwm with window borders transparency

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rest is configured

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and have to add more keybinds

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@dusk mist btw i used your picom is there any change i have to do or its good by default?

dusk mist
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do you want to change anything?

ripe reef
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i dont think so it works

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i thought there might be something i gotta change for that there's no conflict

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so far it works good

dusk mist
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yeah picom should work out of the box

ripe reef
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thats nice

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the nitrogen window looks so ass lol

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i gotta configure it myself

dusk mist
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yeah nitrogen looks pretty outdated but it works and its lightweight

ripe reef
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the default one looks ass

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yess

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have to configure dunst too

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its very weird to use a twm at the start lol

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but im getting the hang of it neovim habits

dusk mist
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yes, i started with hyprland and was hella confused

ripe reef
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hyprland is pain

dusk mist
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then i tried sway and herbstluft

ripe reef
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sway i think is good for wayland

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heard of awesome wm too

dusk mist
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ps: herbstluft is NOT good. its tiling method is so weird

ripe reef
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lol

dusk mist
ripe reef
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WAIT FR?

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LUA???????????

dusk mist
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yep

ripe reef
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its good on mint?

dusk mist
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idk i only try TWMs on rolling release distros

ripe reef
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ooooooo

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i think bspwm is pretty stable for mint for now

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i dont see people using awesomewm on mint

dusk mist
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bspwm is just stable. its been marked by the creator as "complete", all bugs have been fixed, al features have been added, its complete.

ripe reef
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damn ill jsut stick to it then

dusk mist
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but you can always try something new

ripe reef
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one thing i did like about i3 is that it showed you when errors were there in the config

ripe reef
dusk mist
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sway and hyprland also show your errors

ripe reef
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nvidia compatibility is the thing making me stick with mint

ripe reef
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these are my dotfiles pretty much yours 💀

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just changes some lines here and there

dusk mist
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lol no problem, linux is all about open source

ripe reef
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yess

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your config is pretty nice

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even though i saw otherconfigs yours was very straight and no extra bloat

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so i used yours

ripe reef
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@dusk mist finally done with my whole config

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just alacritty left

dusk mist
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congratulations

ripe reef
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@dusk mist for now it looks like this

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but its like when i open new windows they open in fullscreen by default

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i want them to open in floating and adjust themeselves accordingly at start when i open new ones

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like in default i3 or default bspwm

dusk mist
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nice wallpaper

ripe reef
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had to search alot matching with theme lol

dusk mist
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i see youve got the logout button too

ripe reef
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yes i installed powermenu

ripe reef
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and the automatic tiling of windows as i add them when on flaot

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and like if im discord fullscreen and i opened terminal before
the terminal is still stuck there

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unless i quit it

dusk mist
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anyway im rewriting my starship ocnfig
i got a new symbol that i wanted to use

ripe reef
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ooooooo

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i was thinking of using ghostty

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but then it uses new gtk and even kinda in beta

dusk mist
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ghostty is a bit high on system resouces and is a libadwaita application, so it has the weird title bar

ripe reef
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yeaa

dusk mist
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libadwaita is the name of the new gtk thing you're taking about

ripe reef
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for now im good with synth-shell config and alacritty

ripe reef
dusk mist
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never tried synth shell
always used zsh or fish

ripe reef
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synth-shell is fine ig for colors and a bit config

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i used zsh on windows before

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and oh-my-posh

ripe reef
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as also @dusk mist

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bspc config focus_follows_pointer true
bspc config focus_follows_monitor true

might wanna add these 2 lines on the bspwmrc because before the windows were not arranging themselves

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when in floating

dusk mist
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I only have 1 monitor but I still use focus_follow_pointer

ripe reef
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mine on monitor it was not arranging

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so i had to add that

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when i do mirror

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or join

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with laptop

ripe reef
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@dusk mist yoo apparantly im getting this issue

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when i open any window in workspace 1
it follows to other workspaces

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but if i open it in any other workspace it dosent follow to others basically arent sticky

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all the windows in workspace 1 are sticky even if i set them to tiled in bspwmrc