I'm liking it so far. Doing all configuration through its ipc interface gives everything a sort of immediate flexibility

I never did end up doing much with i3's ipc interface, so I can't properly compare..

But that's one thing in favor of bspwm: you can't avoid using bspc, and means you'll gain the ability to configure everything whether you want to or not :P

I also prefer bspwm's splitting behavior over i3

Though I'm sure you can get either to emulate the other with enough scripting in most regards

The one main gripe I have is the lack of node-level stacking layouts (i.e. tabs)

You can do it for a whole workspace, just not on a node (window) level (yet?)

Okay sure

There's also some interesting built in manipulations you can do to windows/workspaces etc.

Rotate, swap with largest, balance etc.

That sounds interesting...

And you can manipulate tiled windows with the mouse

As in drag and drop sort of stuff?

Sort of

Okay

Like, mod+drag RMB will swap the windows on which you mouse-down and mouse-up

Okay, that's cool

Do status bar and launcher stuff pretty much carry over without a change?

And there's a pseudo tiling mode which is nice for windows which don't work great when resized

@TARDISMaker Just about

@gandalf3 Okay

So like dialog boxes

yeah

Or preferences windows

Stuff which you'd rather not float, but really don't work when stretched across the whole screen..

Yeah

@TARDISMaker The only thing I've changed specifically to fit bspwm is not have rofi launch everything through i3-msg exec

How are workspaces handled?

@gandalf3 Okay

So is it harder to launch applications based off of inputs then?

You can set them up i3 style, but I now have mine the way I wanted to set up i3: 10 on each monitor

(all independent)

Okay, cool

@TARDISMaker You mean, jump to a given input, run something with rofi, jump somewhere else, then have whatever you ran open its windows on the input you ran it on?

Well I just mean executing applications in general

I know there are window rules you can apply, but I haven't ported over mine yet

The default config has a few examples for gimp etc

It looks like they are pretty similar

But everything being done through bspc means you can add and remove them dynamically without a fuss :D

Okay, sure

The config file is actually just an executable file you can write in whatever language (the default is a shell script)

To reload settings, just run the script :D

Though if you put anything else in there (like sxhkd) you'll have to do something to prevent starting duplicates when you do that

(like i3's exec vs exec_always)

sxhkd is pretty flexible too (e.g. you can do combinations chains, which lets you do things like i3's modes)

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work with single-key "combinations", but you can do combos without modifier keys

like A+B

Could be useful for inserting special chars maybe

e.g. t+m would have xdotool fire a backspace (to get rid of the t) and then insert a ™ somehow

Wait, I take that back; single keys work just fine!!

:O

I guess its just single modifiers that don't work..

ah well, that's what xcape is for.

@gandalf3 Okay, cool

So I could maybe setup a mode for mouse control?

(that would be really awesome)

@gandalf3 @David Do we really still need to have iKlsr's messages pinned? It's been about a week now...

@TARDISMaker nope.

Now we just need more star worthy messages to bury @iKlsR's.

proof bounties work I saw that yesterday, or the day before. Read it, sounded odd. but did not do anything more. Today saw the bounty, so I downloaded the blend and in a few minutes found the problem.

@VRM let me know if it works. :)

PS had to super ping you, you had not been in the farm in over a week.

Well this looks very interesting. Good idea there.

@David :)

@David Yeah!

Is it getting any publicity?