5 Things BSPWM Does Better than i3wm

[@TheLinuxCast]

Sorry about the lack of video at the end. OBS really does hate it when you have duplicate keybindings.

[@unnamed8214]

I was supposed to be the first though. :(

[@BrucesWorldofStuff]

Not a thing , all good! :-) LLAP

[@k3ff793]

2bwm is best. xcb bspwm is garbage :)

[@leisureloaflightfoot1655]

Tried pretty much all of the tiling window managers and enjoyed most of them but i3 just feels like home to me.

[@TheLinuxCast]

i3 is great, I've brought a lot of what I like about BSPWM to i3, so honestly I don't even tell much of a difference.

[@twb0109]

Just passing by to say I love your channel

[@TheLinuxCast]

Aww, thanks. That means a lot!

[@DevilDriver665]

you can install 'autotiling' to i3 so you have some kind of automatic tiling manager like the others dynamic tiling mangers.

[@rexempire3365]

In my personal experience, I have always found BSPWM to be worse. That is mainly due to sxhkd being unreliable on my machines. It works for the day I installed it, and then the next day it keeps crashing (with no explanation in the log on why it crashed) after launching about 10 to 15 programs. Didn't matter what distro I run BSPWM on, sxhkd always found a way to shit the bed. I much prefer to have all keybinding in the WM's config file (so you don't have daemons like sxhkd being a point of failure).

[@viriv]

you can always just use a different hotkey deamon if you don't like sxhkd since bspwm provides a ctl (bspc). and about having keybinds in your wm's config, i can see why but i don't agree because i like to keep my bindings in a different file since it provides less clutter

[@torsten.breswald]

i prefer herbstluftwm which is litereally the best of these two without the disadvantages, only thing is the name of it, but if you think of it as hl window manager you should be fine it needs some time to get arround some different approaches like the frames and how it handles monitors, but actually you can set it up to appear and to behave as any other wm to your liking, and you can do it on the fly for example with a bashscript, you can go and change every setting while it's running, you can use stuff like other bars or sxhkd if you want, you can have like 128 or more workspaces if you can handle the control of that many, its ressource footprint is low, it's written in C, there are nearly no dependencies at all, it runs like everywhere and is super stable

[@GreyDeathVaccine]

I second this. HLWM is great WM, especially for huge screens :-) Best feature of HLWM is that every frame has it's own layout and you can have mutiple frames on the same tag/workspace (again - huge screens :-) ). BTW. It was written in C, but for some time now author rewrites it to C ++ (don't know why, maybe as part of learning another language).

[@nichtgestalt]

this is a really nice rise of bspwm! Good job! Right know I'm tinkering around with DWM and it's hella cool! Thanks to channels like yours I learned a lot about rising. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. :)

[@eikeimnetz]

i like the gruvbox rice :) im into gruvbox ricing my bspwm config with polybar and powerline this month. I would love to see you do it first

[@FranciscoMarcosMilhomemAbreu]

Gruvbox is based on x11 or Wayland?

[@sofadhana1289]

i started with i3, moved to i3-gaps, then sway which I will probably stick with. Can't see that any advantage that you've mentioned would make any difference to my workflow.

[@YrmiZ]

I have them both installed and I really can't decide between so I use them both depending on my mood and the day :D I have tried almost all WM:s but I have always returned i3 or BSPWM because they are so simple to config.

[@themroc8231]

Replaced DWM with SpectrWM lately and frankly it's all I ever needed without any of the downsides.

[@Ingrid.Nojoumian]

I know it's over done and all that and might not be your style of videos, but I would be interested in seeing a completely fresh install of Arch using bspwm and what you would install and why to make it more of a complete desktop experience

[@TheLinuxCast]

That could be fun.

[@paulnuker1831]

I feel like I'd rather start out w/ a better product as a newb, otherwise I have to go through two learning curves if I switch in the future

[@ldgnu]

Now that you mention it, I like i3 layouts like tabbed I use it a lot and scratchpads with autotiling are more or less. From bspwm I know that there are layouts I would have to see if I can configure them and I don't know if there is scratchpad or something similar, I like the fibonachi, the preselection also a question of testing and see if I happen because I realize that it is better and easier in some things.

[@TheLinuxCast]

BSPWM does have tabs, kind of. It's a monocle mode like DWM has. Scratchpads are something I miss in BSPWM.

[@007arek]

The script whid I think from manjaro adds scratchpad but is't not that good like in i3.

[@_BLANK_BLANK]

At least now day, i3 can do gaps right away. Provided you have the stuff in your config file for them.

[@linuxmench2118]

What weather app are you using and how did you get it working in your WM?

[@TheLinuxCast]

It's a python script. It's on my github in the scripts folder, but you'll need an OpenWeather API key to get it to work. Github link is in the description.

[@linuxmench2118]

@@TheLinuxCast Great, thanks for responding so quick.

[@heroe1486]

There is no tabbed mod built in into bspwm right ? ( I guess there is a script but we're comparing twm out of the box and I don't know if it'd be as good as i3 tabbed mode) That honestly makes it useless to me, I'm the kind of guy to have dozens of terminals, browsers, text editors open at the same time, it'd be impossible to manage without tabs, I'd need way too much workspaces and it would end up to be impossible to use.

[@TheLinuxCast]

So, bspwm doesn't have tabs, but it does have something called a monocle layout. Basically all windows are full screen and layered on top of one another, and then you switch between them with a binding. Doesn't have a title bar ala i3 or awesome, but you could put xwindow module in a polybar.

[@heroe1486]

@@TheLinuxCast I guess it could more or less do the trick, but the polybar module juste give you the title of the current or focused window right ? Titles don't really matter that's the indication that there are x windows opened in your WS that is important imo, and i3tabs play that role nicely. + The capability to have tabs inside tabs and stuff like that is a nice bonus too

[@Chris-ip8uv]

I started with I3 then moved to bspwm about a year ago. I moved to dwm since I could have the full 9 tags on both monitors. Unlike at the time, bspwm would not do that. I could split them between the two monitors. I found that unacceptable. Has this changed?

[@xllvr]

It hasn’t. Just switched to awesome from bspwm a few days ago

[@buntun3670]

"Haskel hates me" 😂🤣

[@dirtymint]

Which font are you using for nvim? I feel like I recognize it.

[@debiprasaddas9699]

It's jetbrains

[@MrCradleman]

Switch from i3 to Sway. Wayland is a deal breaker! Everything works very well. X will die, it has already stopped developing.

[@MrCradleman]

@dr_counelis Any arguments?

[@shadowblack5455]

@@MrCradlemanthere’s just more quality assurance with x compared to wayland.That’ll change in the future but rn x is more stable

[@TheLinuxCast]

IDK if Wayland is junk, but I don't think it's there yet. Too many apps are written for Xorg and can't use Wayland yet

[@MrCradleman]

@@shadowblack5455 I use Sway more than year now. It was quite unstable last year, but now sway works much better and more consistent than i3. Everything in one single config file, no need to change anything in /etc/X11

[@asdiasx]

@@MrCradleman I tried to moving to sway (I do believe it's the future), but had problems with OBS (no screen/window record). Although there are some posts about how to fix this, I couldn't deal with too many configurations (pipewire, xdg, wlroots, etc)... So, I'm back to i3... Maybe this will be simpler in the future.

[@olekollo7875]

2:34 theme yours zsh?

[@TheLinuxCast]

That's powerlevel10k. You can find my setup for it in my dotfiles on my Gitlab under zsh

[@nevoyu]

I argue that dwm might actually be better for new users. And I'm serious about that.