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bspwm is a tiling window manager, including the bspc tool.

The bspwm Binary Space Partitioning Window Manager is a tiling window manager which delegates handling of keyboard or pointer input to a separate program, often sxhkd by the same author. The latter should invoke bspc to send commands to the window manager. bspwm handles RandR, Xinerama, and some EWMH and ICCCM standards.

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How to zoom/magnify on linux without compiz (bspwm)

I'd like to have the functionality described in this video. Basically, use super+scrollup/down or pinch in/out on my touchpad to zoom in a certain area of the screen like on a phone or tablet. Sadly I need compiz to get the described effect. How can…
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How to connect to a second monitor without restarting X?

Every time I have to connect to an external monitor, it remains "disconnected" according to xrandr and the second screen remains black. To solve this problem, I always have to close all my GUI apps and the X server, login again and restart…
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write error: broken pipe with lemonbar script

I'm trying to pipe a bar script into lemonbar in bspwm. In my bspwmrc I have: ~/.config/bspwm/lemonbar.sh | lemonbar -p lemonbar.sh contains: #!/bin/bash clock() { date +%H:%M:%S } while true; do echo "%{c}$(clock)" sleep…
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Bspwm: resizing windows creates visual artifacts

I'm having some problems when resizing certain windows in bspwm. Examples: https://youtu.be/1uOcOCSVsvM. Visual Studio Code: this one is obvious https://youtu.be/PmRwh_S6gIY. 2 Sublime Text windows, tiled: This one is more subtle. You can see the…
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Getting a sticky background terminal running on the bspwm workspace in fullscreen

I am attempting to have a terminal running a custom command in the background layer of my window manager in full screen mode on boot. attempted to execute in bspwmrc, but did not execute on boot #!/bin/bash termite -e "cava" --title=desktopconsole &…
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Can't open url from other applications in firefox

When I try to open an external URL from an application while Firefox is open I get this message: After I close all Firefox instances and try again, Firefox starts but freezes and continuously loading with no results like this: I am using Bbarebone…
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DPMS & PowerSave on laptop

I have an HP PowerBook 440 G4 with Debian Bullseye & BSWPM installed. My locker is lightdm with slick-greeter without a screensaver. My xset q says: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 600 Suspend: 600 Off: 600 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On …
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Trying to capture one monitor with maim

I have two monitors and I would like to only screenshot the main one, maim by default screenshots both monitors as one big monitor, and doing maim -x :0.0 doesn't work. I'm trying to figure this out so I searched and found the commands ls…
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Which process handles XF86 keys?

There are multimedia buttons in my keyboard, the key I am actually interested in are Brightness keys (XF86MonBrightness{UP|DOWN}). I am using bspwm window manager, and without any sxhkdrc config the brightness is automatically handled, I want to…
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Screensharing on bspwm makes the mouse unresponsive on the shared monitor

The problem When I screenshare an entire screen using Discord or Firefox, the shared screen becomes completely unresponsive to my mouse. Stopping the screenshare doesn't fix the problem. Window-sharing works fine. My mouse can't click anything on…
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How to show pointer after it has been hidden by unclutter

I am automatically hiding the cursor with unclutter -idle 3 in my bspwmrc. But I want the cursor to show again ever time I focus a different window with the keyboard. (This would provide a little more visual feedback as to which window focus was…
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Environment variables in window manager not propagating to X clients

Whenever I start my BSPWM session, and regardless of how I start it (I have tested LightDM and Startx), I find that environment variables are somehow not being propagated as expected to X clients during that session. I have checked the contents of…
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xrandr not respecting '--primary' or '--left{right}-of'

I have the following in my .xinitrc: xrandr --output eDP-1 --off xrandr --output HDMI-1 --off # set monitors if [ xrandr -q | grep 'HDMI-1 connected' | wc -l == 1 ] ; then xrandr --output HDMI-1 --primary --mode 2560x1080 xrandr --output…
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Is it possible to change bspwm binds to work like tmux binds?

I come from tmux and I was wondering if its possible to configure sxhkd and bspwm to have binds just like it. For example, Assuming my C-w is my prefix rather than the default C-b tmux prefix C-w h # move to left pane C-w j # move to bottom pane C-w…
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How to configure bspwm with home-manager

I'm using nixos and trying to configure bspwm with home-manager. However, whenever I attempt to login using xorg, it fails saying "Failed to start session". Does anybody know anything about this? My home manager config is at…
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