bspm is a tool meant to patch some of bspwm's shortcomings.
Here are its features:
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Transparent Monocle Mode - If you've used
bspwm's monocle mode with any sort of window transparency, you've probably noticed that you can see your other open windows in the background. This is not ideal. And so,bspmsolves it! Just make sure to replace your existing hotkeys with the appropriatebspmcommands, and you're good to go! -
More Coming (Hopefully) Soon!
First things first: To use bspm, you need to launch its daemon.
Simply add this to your bspwmrc and you'll have it up and running at startup:
bspm -d &All commands are prefixed with the subcommand monocle.
Toggle this mode for the desktop you're currently on:
bspm monocle --toggleCycle to the next node:
bspm monocle --nextCycle to the previous node:
bspm monocle --prevThat's it!
Here's a tip: To be able to use j and k to cycle between nodes in this mode and still be able to use those keys
in tiled mode, you can use a script like this one:
Shell scripting isn't exactly my strong suit, (hence bspm being written in Go) so there might be a better way to write this script.
#!/bin/bash
current_layout=$(bspc query -T -d | jq -r .layout)
if [[ $current_layout == monocle ]]
then
if [[ $@ == up ]]
then
bspm monocle --next
else
# We assume it's "down"
bspm monocle --prev
fi
else
# Act normally
if [[ $@ == up ]]
then
bspc node -f north
else
# We assume it's "down"
bspc node -f south
fi
fiAnd then have something like this in your sxhkdrc file:
super + {j,k}
$PATH_TO_SCRIPT/script_name.sh {down,up}