~Bspwm dotfiles ~

Info

Distro	Arch
WM	BSPWM
Bar	Polybar
Menu	Rofi
Compositor	Ibhagwan-Picom
Terminal	Alacritty-Kitty
Widgets	ElKowars wacky widgets
Music/Player	mpd-ncmpcpp
File Manager	Thunar

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️
THIS DOTFILES ARE CONFIGURED AT 1920x1080 WITH 96 DPI! 1 MONITOR SOME STUFF MIGHT BREAK ON LOWER OR HIGHER RESOLUTIONS BUT WILL STILL WORK!

Very useful keybindigs to know...

• alt + F1 For HotKeys
• alt + @space Apps Menu.
• super + h Hides bar
• Print Takes screenshot.
• super + Return Open a terminal.
• super + shift + Return Open a floating terminal.
• super + c Kill a window/process.
• shift + alt + w Changes randomly wallpaper.
• ctrl + shift + r Restart bspwm. Other Keybinds

📦 Setup (Isn't Full Installation. Be careful about it.)

This is step-by-step how to install these bspwm dotfiles. Just R.T.F.M.

💾 Installation:

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

Open a terminal in HOME

• Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/S4NKALP/bspwm.git 
cd bspwm

• Install needed dependencies

./install (if it show error give permission by chmod +x install

• After installing copy all files to respective location

• If config didn't work then just give executive permission to all

• Copy fonts file to ~/.local/share/

  
  

Once finished copying the files, you might want to finalize the changes to your system.

 # Rebuilds the font cache
 $ fc-cache -fv

Miscellaneous.

• Elkowar's Wacky Widgets

  If you're NOT using a monitor with a 1280x1080 resolution, you might want to change the x and y values of the widgets on the config.

• Theme Suggested

  Nordic Master here & another

• Icon Theme Suggested

  Nordzy Icon this

• Make Yourself window rule in bspwm

  
  

Lastly, log out from your current desktop session and log in into bspwm.

Some tips

• If u dont want to use the random wallpapers comment line 150 from /home/YourUser/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc file.

Troubleshooting

• Weather module is showing wrong values

You need to edit ~/.config/eww/scripts/weather_info & in slidebar/scripts/Weather change the name of your city, you can get it from openweathermap

Acknowledgements.

• Thanks to

  • rxyhn
  • gh0szkt
  • I forgot from where I took other code
    

Screenshots

Desktop

Polybar

Old Polybar

Info-Panel

Side-Bar

MusicPlayer

FireFox

Old