bspwm— an exploration

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Just in case you are interested in my irreverent posting on bspwm & antiX, you may find it in all its brevity (not) here:
http://eirenicon.org/2019/06/24/bspwm-an-exploration/

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I have posted a new knowledge-base article on “binary space partitioning window manager” (bspwm) Resources and pointers. Enjoy.

https://eirenicon.org/knowledge-base/binary-space-partitioning-window-manager-bspwm-resources/

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A good compilation of documentation!

I never bothered that much to set up bspwm from scratch. I always used Manjaro bspwm edition with minor changes to the look and keybindings.
What I also remember to have done successfully (I mean I liked the result) was replaxing openbox with bspwm as window manager in LXDE.
What I like about bspwm is that it doesn’t have any window titles – who needs them? You see from the window content what it is. If you need a title it can be shown in the panel if the panel supports it.

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http://eirenicon.org/2019/06/24/bspwm-an-exploration/

antiX standard items I removed from my base antiX19beta for use in my bspwm install

“standard” items? For which antiX “edition”?
Core // Base // Full
(A blog reader will have no idea which edition the blogpost describes, and may be confused upon installing a different edition.)

Anyhoo…
reading this reminded me to upload some “for reference” lists that you might find interesting.

antiX17_FULL_installed-pkgs.txt
antiX17_BASE_installed-pkgs.txt
antiX17_CORE_installed-pkgs.txt

antiX17_inBase_NOTincore.txt
antiX17_inCore_NOTinBase.txt
antiX17_inbothCOREandBASE.txt

antiX17_inFULL_notinBASE.txt
antiX17_inBASE_notinFULL.txt

I’ll mention that the latter (in BASE not in FULL) is the list I found to be the most interesting.

ps:
Present in each antiX Core // Base // Full iso:
/usr/share/antiX/installed-packages.txt
^–> This list is not auto-regenerated if you remaster, or create a respin.
At any time, you can view an up-to-date listing of currently installed packages, via:
dpkg -l
and you might consider generating a “baseline, for reference” list immediately prior to performing a remaster operation
dpkg -l >> /some/path/filename.txt

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@skidoo I have been futzing with antiX19beta for the materials related to bspwm. Thank you for the pointers. I will use them.
I am actually making some decent progress. I have not tried to make my efforts fully reproduceable, yet. What I’m building are two control panels (workstations):
— One is focused on providing tools to create podcasts & videocasts.
— The second is geared to conducting research and writing/authoring results/ findings (primarily for genealogy).

Both workstations assume that tools will appear in fixed locations across dual screens.

Thus far bspwm seems very well suited to the task.

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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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@ manyroads

You may find something useful here ?

reddit-bspwm
unixporn-bspwm
bspwm for dummies
deviantart-bspwm
bspwm-arcolinux
bleeding-edge-bspwm <<bit old but maybe something>>
bspwm on Debian 10 <<I know you don’t like videos >>

bspc rule -a Control Centre state=floating << this may help you with over sized cell >>

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Again, I owe you one @Koo. Thank you.

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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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Hello all… I have hit a small snag. I am trying to get the desktop-session-exit to open and execute as a ‘pop-up’; I have tried the next command in bspwmrc without success.

bspc rule -a desktop-session-exit state-floating follow=on

Any suggestions? Ideas?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by manyroads.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by manyroads.

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The desktop-session-exit “popup” is
/usr/local/lib/desktop-session/desktop-session-exit.py
and, on_button_click, it passes back to /usr/local/bin/desktop-session-exit
( which, in turn, sources /usr/local/lib/desktop-session/desktop-session-file-locations.sh )

These scripts are provided by the package “desktop-session-antix”

Within desktop-session-file-locations.sh you can see (Line20) references to additional scripts associated with each of the various buttons.

— snip —
desktop_session_logout=”$lib_dir/desktop-session-logout“;
desktop_session_restart=”$lib_dir/desktop-session-restart“;
desktop_session_exit_gui=”$lib_dir/desktop-session-exit.py“;

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An alternative may be the package “lxsession-logout” or “obsession”.

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@skidoo Thank you! I’ll try them all to see which works “most elegantly.”

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I am pleased to announce that effective today… I am running MXLinux 18.3 with bspwm. I think I have most things functional, including pop-up help to aid my ‘remembery’ (to quote Winnie-the-Pooh).

I have also gotten bspwm to work on antiX19b1.

I will post tutorials related to my bspwm exploration (learnings) as soon as I am able to write them.

A more detail update may be found at: http://eirenicon.org/2019/07/15/bspwm-an-update/

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kudos for your perseverance toward builidng your “Happy Place”.

FYI, in the as-shipped antiX19beta2, removal of SLiM does not present the problem you previously described.
The snag you encountered (you were attempting to customize antiX17?) may have hinged on your /etc/slimf.conf containing a “sessions” line (vs “sessiondir” line).

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@manyroads

Nice to see you making good head way well done..

——Desktop Exit—–

#!/bin/bash
#exit  antix bash backend
. /usr/local/lib/desktop-session/desktop-session-file-locations.sh

help() {
    echo "Usage:"
    echo "-l | --logout     Logout of the current session";
    echo "-L | --lock       Lock the current session";
    echo "-h | --hibernate  Set the machine into hibernate";
    echo "-s | --shutdown   Shutdown your machine";
    echo "-S | --suspend    Set the machine into suspend";
    echo "-r | --reboot     Reboot your machine";
    echo "-R | --restart    Restart the session";
    }

case $1 in
-l|--logout)
    $desktop_session_logout
    ;;
-L|--lock)
    xlock
    ;;
h|--help)
    help
    ;;
#-H|--hibernate)
#    sudo pm-hibernate
#    ;;
-s|--shutdown)
    if [ -e /etc/live/config/save-persist -o -e /live/config/persist-save.conf ] && which persist-config &> /dev/null; then
        sudo persist-config --shutdown --command poweroff
    else
        sync
        sudo chvt 1
        sudo poweroff
    fi
    ;;
-S|--suspend)
    sudo pm-suspend
    ;;
-r|--reboot)
    if [ -e /etc/live/config/save-persist -o -e /live/config/persist-save.conf ] && which persist-config &> /dev/null; then
        sudo persist-config --shutdown --command reboot
    else
        sync
        sudo chvt 1
        sudo reboot
    fi
    ;;
-R|--Restart)
    $desktop_session_restart
    ;;
*)
    if [ "$DISPLAY" ]; then
        $desktop_session_exit_gui &
        exit
    else
        echo "$1 Not an option"
        help;
    fi
    ;;
esac

This is the contents from desktop-session-exit..
Your command may need the path to the file itself..

With i3 I have a folder ~/.scripts this is where I store all the scripts I use. All I did was copied the desktop-session-exit file from root to my ~/.scripts folder.
All scripts have to be executable to run. Check

bindsym $mod+Shift+x exec –no-startup-id ~/.scripts/desktop-session-exit <<This calls the script I think you need to add the path..

for_window [instance=”desktop-session-exit”] floating enable <<This makes it float. Without this it still opens but in full screen..

Please try and use the original script. We lucky with this script on antiX as it is non desktop specific works on any desktop..

I have tried a few times to get the MX version of this script to work with i3 but it always errors. Seems to be related to xfce..

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Thank you @Koo. I’ll use that on my antiX setup. I have the script located with the others I use (./local/share/scripts). 😉

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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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