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BSPWM environment with 15 themes. Polybar. eww widgets, with a rice selector to change on the fly.

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Rice-Selector.mp4

🚀 Features

Experience the Magic of Customization with gh0stzk's bspwm dotfiles

^{Welcome to the world of limitless customization! gh0stzk's dotfiles for bspwm offer a unique and exciting experience with 15 different themes, each featuring captivating color schemes, styles and personality. Immerse yourself in a visual journey that will transform your workspace in an impressive way.}

Change themes on the fly

^{With our custom menu based on rofi launcher, switching between the 15 themes is as easy as a click. Enjoy the versatility of styles and color combinations instantly.}

Consistency Across the Environment

^{Each theme not only changes the appearance of bspwm but also instantly transforms the color scheme in alacritty terminal, eww widgets, polybar bars, notifications, and more. Visual harmony is guaranteed in every corner of your system.}

Unique Eww Widgets

^{Discover 4 unique eww widgets, including a calendar, power menu, music player, and user card. These widgets are not only functional but also instantly adapt to the color scheme of the selected theme.}

Complete Customization

^{Explore an elegant right-click menu made with Jgmenu, which also syncs with themes for flawless visual consistency. Additionally, 10 polybar bars and 2 eww widgets offer a fully customizable user experience.}

Variety of Wallpapers

^{Each login surprises you with a randomly selected wallpaper specifically tailored to the theme in use. But if surprises aren't your thing, our wallpaper menu lets you choose from over 5 exclusive wallpapers for each theme.}

Visual Composition with Picom

^{Experience effortless beauty with picom as the compositor, providing a pleasing aesthetic without sacrificing performance. Enjoy a hassle-free working experience with delightful visual effects, balance between performance and beauty.. And you can adjust the transparency of your open windows with a simple key combination. Control the appearance of your desktop to perfectly suit your mood and style.}

Additional Features:

• Local Music Control:

  ^{Manage your local music from the polybar module and the ncmpcpp player, both with a unique design that adapts to the theme's color scheme.}

• Flexibility:

  ^{Hide and show the polybar and eww widgets according to your needs, giving you complete control over your workspace.}

• Functional Scratchpad:

  ^{Access the scratchpad functionality, a terminal window you can show or hide for tasks when you don't want the window taking up unnecessary space.}

Transform your user experience with gh0stzk's dotfiles for bspwm! Install now and breathe life into your desktop with style and personality.

📖 Wiki

I already started writing the Wiki, you should give it a read. If it is your first time with a WM, you may be interested in reading First steps after installing the dotfiles or maybe read frequently asked questions and answers Keybinds Firefox Theme.

Caution

⚠️⚠️⚠️ This dotfiles are configured at 1600x900 resolution with 96 DPI and 1 monitor. Some stuff might break on lower or higher resolutions, but still work!! ⚠️⚠️⚠️

🎨 The themes

👕 Theme Selector

🚥 Wallpaper Selector

🌸Emilia:

Extra wallpapers in Emilia

🌸Jan

Extra wallpapers in Jan

🌸Aline

Extra wallpapers in Aline

🌸Andrea

Extra wallpapers in Andrea

🌸Cynthia

Extra wallpapers in Cynthia

🌸Isabel

Extra wallpapers in Isabel

🌸Silvia

Extra wallpapers in Silvia

🌸Melissa

Extra wallpapers in Melissa

🌸Pamela

Extra wallpapers in Pamela

🌸Cristina

Extra wallpapers in Cristina

🌸Karla

(Zombie-Night Color Scheme)

Extra wallpapers in Karla

🌸z0mbi3:

Extra wallpapers in z0mbi3

🌸Brenda:

Extra wallpapers in Brenda

🌸Daniela:

Extra wallpapers in Daniela

🌸Marisol:

Extra wallpapers in Marisol

Firefox Theme (z0mbi3 Fox)

Complementarily you can install this extension made by PonyLucky. It is a startpage to enhance UX. Preview and configuration options. Looks awesome with the firefox theme.

Neovim Setup

Plugins included Neovim setup wiki

Very useful keybindigs to know...

Keys	Action
super + Enter super + alt + Enter	Open a terminal Open a floating terminal.
alt + @space	Display menu to select a theme.
super + @space	Apps Menu.
super + alt + w	Opens a menu to select a wallpaper.
super + h super + u	Hides bar/s unhide bar/s
Print	Takes screenshot.
ctrl + alt + [plus,minus,t]	Changes transparency on focused window.
ctrl + super + alt + p ctrl + super + alt + r ctrl + super + alt + k	Power off computer Restart computer Brute kill a window/process
super + alt + r	Restart bspwm.

And more.. You need to look sxhkdrc file for more.

📦 setup

💾 Installation:

The installer only works for ARCH Linux, and based distros.

Open a terminal in HOME

• First download the installer

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gh0stzk/dotfiles/master/RiceInstaller -o $HOME/RiceInstaller

# Maybe you want a short url??

curl -L https://is.gd/gh0stzk_dotfiles -o $HOME/RiceInstaller

• Now give it execute permissions

chmod +x RiceInstaller

• Finally run the installer

./RiceInstaller

dotfiles's Issues

eww not installed from AUR

I have problems with the theme Andrea and z0mbi3, when I select them the tab-bar disappears

Theme switching not changing anything

when i try switching the theme polybar doesn't change at all and bspwm restarts, i've reinstalled a few times and nothing's changed.

how to change polybar position and height in z0mbi3 theme

Hello!

First I want to say it's really awesome work and thanks for the dot files.

How can I change the position of polybar in z0mbi3 theme? I want to increase the height of it to 90% and change to position to the more left side because it is taking space.

Thanks

Media controls not showing up

media controls on polybar are not working. any idea how to fix this? I did a freash install before I installed the dotfiles so I have not changed anything to them.

Please let me know if you need more info.

Is it possible to add only one rice ?

First of all sry for creating an issue (I didn't manage to find your reddit post )

These are some 'can called' feature request or problem that had after installing it multiple times on different machines

1. when you run Riceinstaller if u enter a wrong password for example for changing shell to zsh , the script will stop and u should re run it again.

2. It would be so cool if user can choose to install only one or more rices but not all the rices.

3. Is there a way that i can disable or remove the ASCII things that apear at the start of the terminal (Like your zombie logo or penguin or ...)

Good UI, Bad UX

where are pin to taskbar, restore pre seasion

xorg-xsetroot is required for the cursor fix on the last line of bspwmrc

The package xorg-xsetroot should be included in the dependency checks in the install script, otherwise xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr in bspwmrc won't work if the user didn't already have the package installed, leaving the cursor as an X by default rather than the correct left_ptr

use two monitor

What file do I modify to be able to use two monitors?

Possible to ignore polybar on my second monitor?

Is it possible for the window on my second monitor to ignore the "invisible" polybar?

Dual Monitor setup not playing nice with polybar.

Hey, tried your rice. When using any rice, polybar only shows up on one monitor. Any fix for this? Love your work btw

hide programs (super + space)

Hi bro, I would like to know how I can hide unwanted programs when I press (super + space) like I don't want htop to appear there. thanks

An error occurred while creating the file

Thank you so much for sharing. I only had trouble at one point with the installation.

mkdir -p ~/.config && cp -r ~/dotfiles/config/* ~/.config

and other file creation commands don't work I guess. After creating manually the installation was successful :)

list of anime wallpapers

hey u got a list of anime wallpapers i can remove? parents momento. i dont know every anime wallpaper in the assets folder and i cant view them cuz parents

Convert RiceInstaller for Ubuntu

Hi, I tried replacing the Arch commands with those for Ubuntu.

However they don't all work, kindly when you have time could you help me by correcting them? THX 😁
RiceInstaller.txt

Sysfetch error

Hello, Sorry to bother you with this error but I have tried to fix it but I could not find any way to fix it, please could you help me.

neofetch config

Please commit your neofetch config.

Need to uninstall

This is less of an issue and more of question, is there a way to uninstall/undo every change made by the installer? if so how?

Please help

sorry for a side question, I'm configuring bspwm for myself can you help me how to make the corners of the window curved

Music deamon error while starting mpd.service

Hello gh0stz,
First, let me say thanks for this cool rices!
I did try to use them for a clean Arch install and get this non-obvious error:

○ mpd.service - Music Player Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/mpd.service; enabled; preset: enable>
Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2022-12-30 00:56:05 MSK; 30s ago
Docs: man:mpd(1)
man:mpd.conf(5)
Process: 1108 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpd --systemd (code=exited, status=1/FAILU>
Main PID: 1108 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 60ms

Dec 30 00:56:05 archlegion systemd[1094]: Starting Music Player Daemon...
Dec 30 00:56:05 archlegion mpd[1108]: Ignoring the 'pid_file' setting in system>
Dec 30 00:56:05 archlegion mpd[1108]: server_socket: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' fai>
Dec 30 00:56:05 archlegion mpd[1108]: exception: Failed to open '/var/lib/mpd/m>
Dec 30 00:56:05 archlegion mpd[1108]: exception: Failed to open database plugin>
Dec 30 00:56:05 archlegion systemd[1094]: mpd.service: Main process exited, cod>
Dec 30 00:56:05 archlegion systemd[1094]: mpd.service: Failed with result 'exit>

Any idea how to fix that? I applied all changes from the troubleshooting section (btw, there is no /scripts/weather in /config/bspwd/rices/z0mbi3/dashboard)

Many thanks in advance,
Kirill

eww bar error, power module exit screen

hi, i have a problem with eww bar in z0mbie, when i hover over the power the bar goes out of the screen.
my resolution is 1360x768

Laptop brightness not working after running the script.

Before running the script I can see battery icon and I can change the brightness through keyboard shortcuts(fn key).
Bur after installing the rice, neither the battery icon is here but also I cannot change birghtness anyway.

How i can add window animation

I want to add a window animation like fade when new app open. where is the picom configuration for that?

Icon, zsh

Hello nice dots, btw. could u provide icons for ur polybar ?
Is there anychance to showup dotfiles for zsh?

eww widgets windows not displaying in the right spot

I already used this rice before without any problem but, for some reason, my last attempt to ./RiceInstall made the eww widgets like powermenu, calendar and launchermenu not show in the right place. They always open tiled but, if I press the keybind for making the window float they have the right size, just aren't in the right place on the screen. I could make every widget show in the same place with the same geometries editing the /.config/bspwm/scripts/ExternalRules file and adding
Eww) eval "$consequences" [ "$state" ] || echo "state=floating rectangle=249x334+435+60" ;; to the first main function in the file. Is there a way to modify this entry: Eww) in order to specify the widget window I'm trying to change?

on running script timeout error

curl: (28) Failed to connect to raw.githubusercontent.com port 443 after 129247 ms: Couldn't connect to server

pls solve this issue

How to change the dashboard date language?

I was searching for it. I could't find it, My default language is English. I am new to this ricing world. May be a dumb. I am using zomb13 theme

Cannot change defualt terminal to alacritty

I've edited the sxhkdrc file to

#
# wm independent hotkeys
#

# terminal emulator
super + Return
        alacritty

As well as my ~/.zshrc to

export TERMINAL=alacritty;

And reloaded the configuration, as well as rebooting - running super + enter still opens termite and doesn't open anything if I uninstall termite

error with ncmpcpp

i'm a noob with rices bspwm so i installed it in dual boot windows with archcraft, and then i installed the script but it has widgets and some things that don't work for me, could you help me in any way? or create a video on youtube could be a series configuring each config and explaining then I would probably better understand what was happening and could solve the problems

How to change rices names.

hi, i forked this and want to customize it my way. im a noob and not a developer or anything but the scripts are really readable so i think i can manage it. what i need help with is a few things:

1. removing a few programs from the list that it installs like termite and mpd
2. removing the terminal switcher. since i will only install alacritty, i dont need the thing that lets me change terminals.
3. renaming the themes
   which files do i have to go through to do this. any help will be appreciated

Incorrect time in polybar

After installing this config the time in polybar is 5 hours ahead of what it should be in my timezone. Where can I change that?

Installer not working properly

I had to reinstall arch for some reason and now I can't install this again. When i run it, the script is executed and everything is installed but when i open bspwm, it's just empty. No theme, no wallpaper, the basic shortcuts are the so ig sxhkdrc is working. I couldn't get my fork to work so i rhought I must've messed something up but i tried yours and even this one doesn't

Very High usage of RAM.

When I first boot up in bspwm its shows about 700-800mb of RAM Usage. But when I open chrome or firefox it jumps for 1gb to 4gb. Then even if I close the appllcation its somehow keeps on increasing and finally it freezes.

Any solutions or either I am doing something wrong?

Installer script not working

Hello good sir , I have tried running your install script on two devices, but it still isn't working, there are two issues i have noticed

1. xdg-users-dirs-update
2. certain backup folders do not exist( i tried creating the folders but they just get deleted).
   I'd really appreciate if you could help me out, I'm kinda new to this .
   Thank you in advance, I really like your setup and I'd really wanna have it on my pc .

theme in termite doesn not work, and thunar.

ahoy! The theme in termite does not work for me. and also the theme does not work in the thunar. maybe you use another file manager? Maybe I don't have some apps installed? Write what I might be missing, and will themes be applied to them after installation?

how can i update dotfiles?

I would like to update the topic, because as I understand it, you are updating it.

Two monitores

I have two monitors how can I get around the limit of this configuration?

Battery indicator on laptops

It would be great to add an icon to show the battery level of laptops.

An error in the bspwmrc file

You should replace #!/bin/sh by bash or something.
Some expressions in this scripts doesn't work with sh
I have seen a "source: command not found" error

polybar taskbar set to primary monitor

how to set polybar taskbar to primary monitor i have 2 monitor
when i restart bspwm. polybar taskbar move to primary monitor
but when i restart my computer polybar taskbar move to second monitor

sorry to my bad english

fix screenchange-reload = false to true

No weather scripts

Weather scripts on z0mbi3 is missing.

screen resolution

Hello, I am not a programmer, I love your work is very good; I thank you for creating this content. I have been looking for a way to adapt it to my screen configuration and I could not find it, could you give me a hand on what files I have to change to adjust it to 1920x1080; thank you in advance.

what is your browser config

emoji in terminal

hi bro i wanted to know how can i remove these emojis that appears in the terminal, thanks

Hola

Una disculpa , como cambio la resolucion de los temas , es que se mueven un poco en mi pantalla , y se me van los iconos

Ranger colorschemes

Rices are supposed to change ranger colorschemes or not? Im asking because it´s not working for me.

unable to launch bspwm and sxkhd, no .xinitrc provided

how am i supposed to start everything after downloaded the dot files on a fresh install for arch. i don't see a .xinitrc file.

super+h shortcut

i use super+{h,j,k,l} shortcut for focusing the windows, but since super+h is taken for hiding polybar in your rice, i can't really focus anymore, pretty annoying. i've tried to find where this shortcut is located, but I haven't found it. i've checked ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc and ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc. where's it? (great rice btw. i really enjoy using it :))

eww configs don't work !

Can't run any eww widget for the themes that have eww.

~ ❯ eww daemon                                                
 2022-09-21T21:08:02.531Z ERROR eww > Failed to initialize eww paths

Caused by:
    Configuration directory /home/none/.config/eww does not exist

This is the first time I use eww, so fresh installation doesn't create a : /.config/eww
I also tried to run just the script :

~ ❯ ~/.config/bspwm/rices/pamela/widgets/calendarlauncher     
eww > Trying to find server process at socket /run/user/1000/eww-server_L2hvbWUvbm9uZS8uY29uZmlnL2JzcHdtL3JpY2VzL3BhbWVsYS93aWRnZXRz
Failed to connect to the eww daemon.
Make sure to start the eww daemon process by running `eww daemon` first.
 2022-09-21T21:11:05.948Z INFO  eww > Trying to find server process at socket /run/user/1000/eww-server_L2hvbWUvbm9uZS8uY29uZmlnL2JzcHdtL3JpY2VzL3BhbWVsYS93aWRnZXRz
Failed to connect to the eww daemon.
Make sure to start the eww daemon process by running `eww daemon` first.

The problem is related to eww since eww moved to yuck but the installed one here still trying to find xml :

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃Initializing eww daemon┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
    
 2022-09-21T21:53:29.712Z INFO  eww::server > Loading paths: config-dir: /home/none/.config/bspwm/rices/pamela/widgets, ipc-socket: /run/user/1000/eww-server_L2hvbWUvbm9uZS8uY29uZmlnL2JzcHdtL3JpY2VzL3BhbWVsYS93aWRnZXRz, log-file: /home/none/.cache/eww_L2hvbWUvbm9uZS8uY29uZmlnL2JzcHdtL3JpY2VzL3BhbWVsYS93aWRnZXRz.log
 2022-09-21T21:53:29.712Z ERROR eww         > Failed to load eww config file /home/none/.config/bspwm/rices/pamela/widgets/eww.xml

ncmpcpp can't open

bro i have problem when i open ncmpcpp on terminal
Error while processing option "lyrics_directory": option already set

Screenshot opreration cancels every time

Every time I run Super + Print, a notification appears saying Screenshot: Operationa canceleda - not sure what to do from here. Using the default configuration files for Cristina