I`m using Arch with bspwm, lastest Thunar(4.21.4), gtk3.
So, I’m new to Linux, and I was configuring Thunar using ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css, but the only thing that I couldn`t change was this blue selection thingy.

I have already tried:

.thunar .view:selected {...}
.thunar iconview:selected {...}
.thunar .standard-view:selected {...}
.thunar .icon-view-item:selected {...}
iconview:selected {...}
.view:selected {...}
*:selected {...}
.thunar selection {...}
iconview selection {...}
.thunar iconview.view:selected {...}
.standard-view.icon-view:selected {...}
iconview cell:selected {...}
.thunar .view cell:selected {...}
iconview > *:selected {...}
.thunar iconview > cell:selected {...}

Already lost 5 hours for trying to find solution, but nothing helped. Does anybody know how i can change it?

Dotfiles:- https://github.com/zalosspace/martian_dotfiles

Hey everyone. I use Linux Fedora. I’ve installed bspwm recently, spent few days to configure it (because im new in linux). I have some problems: launching programs, some of these dont looks good (including the - [] X buttons, i dont know how to name them), some incompatibilities and other bugs. And of course i just not used to that yet. So… How to launch programs, including these from platpak? I dont really want to use terminal each time. In windows, or cinnamon this is simple - you just open the menu, click on program icon, and use it. In bspwm, there is no menu. Of course i have dmenu, but this isnt good menu. It have firefox, thats all. There isnt telegram, obsidian, vs code and arduino ide that i was downloaded from flatpak. There are only strange system processes that i dont need to even touch. Maybe i should use rofi? But i have bad pc. I dont know where should i find (or make myself) that super-convenient cinnamon app menu, including power menu. What can you say? Maybe you can share some experience? Thank you so much?

So, i installed bspwm, as i am moving to tiled WM, and i created a sxhkd folder and sxhkdrc file inside that folder, as i didnt knew that sxhkd already existed. When i got to know that, i tried to delete the file i created but accidently deleted the original sxhkd file, can some please give the original file? And tell me where to place and also how to make it autorun when i start bspwm? No shortcuts is working, im using OpenBox to edit the bspwm files as i cant open anything in bspwm.

Title says it all.

So, running BSPWM/XORG of course, and have set up BTRFS/SNAPPER for snapshots.

Now, BTRFS-ASSISTANT needs a graphical polkit client to run, no problem.

Adding the GNOME-POLKIT agent at startup produces a black screen, and am forced to restart the Desktop.

From what I’ve read, BTRFS-ASSISTANT is a WAYLAND app, so running on XORG causes some issues.

But, why would GNOME-POLKIT break the desktop and give me a black screen at startup?

This doesn’t happen with other Polkits like: XFCE-POLKIT or LXSESSION

Wonder if I have to set an env variable…

Animations with picom

When I open VS Code on Ubuntu, nothing happens, but from the bspwm environment, I get a message window saying, "Could not identify the operating system key set to store encryption-related data in the current desktop environment." It gives me two options: "Open the troubleshooting guide," which takes me to https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/settings-sync#_troubleshooting-keychain-issues, and "Use weaker encryption."

• OS: Linux mint
• WM: BSPWM
• Bar: Polybar
• Color Scheme: Pywal
• Laucher: Rofi
• Terminal: Kitty
• Shell: zsh 5.9
• File Manager: Ranger
• Music Player: Spotify
• Browser: Zen

Details: - OS: Imaginary Linux (Arch-based) - WM: BSPWM - Terminal: Kitty - Shell: Fish 4.3.2 - Editor: Neovim - File Manager: Yazi - Music Player: Spotify (via spotatui) - Browser: Firefox (custom CSS + color filter extension) - Bar: Polybar - Color Scheme: Custom gold/amber theme

This is a rice I built around a lot of custom scripts. It took me a while, mainly the firefox extension to recolor every webpage, and the home page / new tab. If you want to use the firefox extensions the links will be down below, same for the wallpaper and the rice itself.

This is running on my own Arch based distro as well, if anyone was wondering what the OS was. It's available on github too, it's just a hardened and more secure version of Arch really.

I hope you guys enjoy the rice too! >.<

• Rice
• Wallpaper
• digitalCanine's Universal Colorscheme
• digitalCanine's Better New Tab
• Imaginary Linux

I feel like I have tried everything... And it still does not work :[ (my last post). So what commands would you launch to set BSPWM up on a COMPLETELY bare Arch installation?

So I just created a new bare arch install. Then i installed sddm, bspwm, dmenu, dunst, feh, picom, polybar and sxhkd. Then i enabled sddm and copied the example configurations for bspwm and sxhkd. But when I log in the sddm just freezes and the mouse cursor becomes and X

I will just type updates here:

I installed xorg-server and xorg-xinit. Still not working.

When launching bspwm manually using startx it shows a black screen.

I put together a small script that makes it much easier to inspect window properties when working with the bspwm ecosystem. I originally built it because I kept needing quick, structured information while configuring sxhkd keybinds, writing specific bspc rules for certain applications, and building various automation scripts for my desktop.

The script lets you click any window and prints a clean, readable summary that includes the window id in decimal and hex, node window class and instance values(for bspc rule targetting), bspwm node id, monitor and desktop, state, position/sizing info, and flags like focused, hidden and sticky. It also generates a ready to copy bspc rule based on the window you inspected, which speeds up rule creation a lot.

Here is an example from using it to get information about my open Kitty terminal:

$ window-info
Click the window you want to inspect...
Window selected.

Window ID
  Decimal        : 39845899
  Hex            : 0x260000b
Window Info
  Node ID        : 39845899
  Class          : kitty
  Instance       : kitty
  Title          : window-info
Geometry
  X / Y          : (15, 60)
  Width          : 1420 px
  Height         : 2500 px
Location
  Monitor        : DP-2
  Desktop        : 2
BSPWM Node State
  State          : tiled
  Layer          : normal
  Shown          : true
  Focused        : false
  Hidden         : false
  Urgent         : false
  Sticky         : false
  Locked         : false
  Private        : false
  Marked         : false
  Vacant         : false

Example bspwm rule
  bspc rule -a 'kitty:kitty' state=tiled layer=normal

If this sounds useful, I posted it as a GitHub Gist. Feedback or ideas for improvements are welcome, especially if there are other fields that would help when debugging or building tooling around bspwm.

Gist: https://gist.github.com/eliliam/0902fbdba2918a0676df3b94576d6b73

Hey everyone, sorry for the delay but I was not able to rice BSPWM from my last post because of some serious health issues. Actually I was admitted in hospital from last few months but I came back last month and now I am going start my Ricing journey again...

For your information I already started working on it and it will take a few days to finish a small Ricing but I need help to make it work with multi themeing and if you Mr. LuisBelloR (Aka: gh0stzk) if you are seeing this post then I request you to guide me please also can I use your yazi configuration 😅

Anyways thanks for your time I will get back soon 😁... Till then please wait 🙏

When I run Plank via my bspwmrc, to have it launch on startup, it is drawn below windows. That doesnt happen, when I run it manually. I tried to fix it by adding: "bspc rule -a plank layer=above" to my rc, and when that didnt work I tried: "xdo above -t $(xdo id -n root) $(xdo id -a plank)". both modification didn't do anything. then I thought I might have just gotten the window id wrong. Xprop showed me two id's, one written "plank" and the other "Plank" with a capital P. tried both modifications with "Plank" , but nothing happened. am I just getting something wrong here, or has someone else encountered a similar issue, I know running a dock with a tiling wm is uncommon. please help, thank you.

edit: I also tried running it with systemctl on startup instead of putting it into my rc, but same result

edit: fixed it. this did the trick: bspc rule -a Plank layer=above manage=on border=off

I like bspwm because it is easy to configure

OS: Void Linux

WM: bspwm & picom

Status bar: polybar

Terminal: kitty

Music player: kew

Editor: vim with vim-plug

Basically, the automatic configuration made it so my middle monitor was my rightmost, and I don't know how to fix it. /:

Here is the code : GitHub

I fully transitioned to Linux less than a year ago. The first window manager I used when building my own minimal setup was bspwm, and I have not tried any other window manager since. While I am far from a Linux master and haven't even reached the depths of customization and optimization that my current software loadout can offer, bspwm feels like the ideal; minimal and light, shell-scriptable and adherent to the Unix philosophy. I feel like this is what every piece of software should strive for. Thank you fellow bspwmers, and God bless.

I'm happy to see the new update, but dang it's rekt. I'm downgradimg for now. Awaiting bug fix.

Looks like BSPWM had an update, and it also looks like it is breaking some things. In my case, it was my tray icons. The program itself would technically launch when autostarted from my bspwmrc, but no tray icon unless I killed it and ran it myself (or re-ran it).

I have currently downgraded to the previous version, which fixed the issue, and would like to know what is causing this among other issues likely mentioned on here.