genzyy / bspwm-config

Green themed bspwm configuration for ricing lovers

BSPWM Greeny Themey

My Setup

Contents

• OS Details
• Requirments and Dependencies
• Installing
• File Structure
• Other Themes

OS Details

• OS : Manjaro Linux
• Shell : oh-my-zsh
• WM : bspwm
• Terminal: alacritty
• Editor : vscode

About

• Lighter than usual desktop environments
• Less RAM Usage and highly customizable
• Very few dependencies required
• Easy configuration to learn
• Highly customizable and beautiful and productive

Requirements and Dependencies

The dependencies are kept as low as possible and are common for all distros so the config can be used by anyone willing to use bspwm. Also these packages will most likey be available in the package manager of your linux distro but it can be that they have different package-name.

Dependency package name	What it does?
bspwm	Window Manager
sxhkd	Key Bindings Mapper for BSPWM
feh	Command line tool for setting up the wallpaper
picom	Composite manager for window managers
rofi	Application launcher or menu
ImageMagick	Used for theming and wallpaper
wal	Used for colors
polybar	The above bar

Installing

Install all the above mentioned dependencies and then clone the repo and then place all the files according to the file structure given below. It is pretty easy, you just need to copy and paste the files.

File Structure

Folder from repository	Where to place?
bspwm	~/.config/(entire folder)
sxhkd	~/.config/ (entire folder)
picom.conf	~/.config/
rofi	~/.config/ (entire folder)
polybar	~/.config/ (entire folder)

bspwm-config's Issues

bspwm displaying default settings

I installed bspwm and sxhkd on a clean Arch Linux system (brand new installation), then followed the steps provided by this guide to get this theme (I installed feh, picom, rofi, imagemagick, wal and polybar, then copied the config folders and the picom config file into .config). I rebooted and then logged in, but bspwm appeared as a default install (black background, no bars, only cursor is showing).

I tried installing alacritty and then launching it with super+Return (as was stated in sxhkdrc), but it didn't work. Then I installed another terminal program (termite), replaced it in sxhkdrc as the default terminal application, and tried to launch it with super+Return, but it also didn't work. super+d also doesn't seem to trigger rofi (which is odd, because I had made sure I had rofi installed).

Maybe I am missing a step? It's my first time trying bspwm. Thanks in advance.