In search of tutorials for i3 & bspwm & herbstluftwm

[Member manyroads]

Hello all.

I am in search of some good tutorials for

• herbstluftwm
• bspwm
• i3

I am not a fan of video tutorials… I like to read mine because I’m a slow, tactile, learner. 😉

Here are a couple I found this morning (but I am unable to get very far with them…):
https://www.instructables.com/id/Bspwm-Installation-and-Configuration/
https://github.com/windelicato/dotfiles/wiki/bspwm-for-dummies

Pointers are appreciated!

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Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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[Moderator BobC]

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Check on ArcoLinux for i3. They have a git thing where you can see what packages are installed in what sequence, and the arch based scripts to do it. It might help with a checklist and ideas for automating it…

[Member manyroads]

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Thanks BobC. I’ll check it out.

Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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[Anonymous]

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The most important — Quick Reference:
https://i3wm.org/docs/refcard.html

User Guide:
https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html

All:
https://i3wm.org/docs/

Cheat Sheat (PDF):
https://www.cheatography.com/davechild/cheat-sheets/i3-window-manager/

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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i3 is the equivalent of gnome/kde (bloat) of window managers …

I used to be a big fan about 5 years ago.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member manyroads]

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I’m downloading awesome as I write… i3 was a disappointment for me. Bspwm is still a mystery, although I think sway might be interesting because of its Wayland use/ link.

Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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[Member fatmac]

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This one might interest you, cwm.

https://vsido.org/index.php?topic=410.0
https://man.openbsd.org/cwm.1

Linux (& BSD) since 1999

[Member manyroads]

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Gotta say that bspwm is impressing me. The setup was not really obvious but it was nowhere near as obtuse as i3. Probably it’s just my small brain. 😉 Herbstluftwm is disappointing (to me) their wiki is dead empty. It would be better deleted… I think. I tried xmonad… my VBox machine was not happy with it at all.

btw. I have a nicely ‘appointed’ version of bspwm idling at under 175MB of RAM. (Sounds like a real estate advert, doesn’t it???)

Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
dwm & i3wm ~Reg. Linux User #449130
20 Jan 2021 ~ "End of an Error"

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