Wondering if its possible to bring back the BSPWM EndeavourOS and use it in the current release? Have been trying to track it down as the current community based script .bash no longer works due to missing files. Anyone have success with this? or still running it and able to assist?
Maybe you can give the output of those script here?
Have you tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bspwm to get it work properly?
i’ve tried everything with regards to getting the EndeavourOS flavor of BSPWM to work. EndeavourOS thought it would be cool to leave us high and dry i guess. Files are missing from the repo that are no longer availible to install it via the script from the community.
I’ve struggled a bit with it. It is running now.
git clone https://github.com/EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/bspwm.git
cd bspwm/
bash bspwm-install.sh
yay -S - < packages-repository.txt
yay -S nitrogen nwg-look thunar xfce4-terminal xed rofi xorg sxhkd polybar
Approximately. Some manual installation might be missing.
No we have just lost people over the years an no one has replaced them. The development team is very small now and can no longer keep up with all the changes for every system.
Should I be trying the no desktop install method still?
bspwm to me was the hardest when I first installed it. from LXQT I knew how to configure a compositor but so much from scratch work elsewhere with bspwm.
I am personally dabbling with a handful of Arch WMs and trying to find a sweet spot between ready-to-roll-dotfile and informed DIY config. I don’t like the default apps in most dotfiles (thunar, kitty, xfce stuff, etc).
Why am I commenting at all? bspwm should not be your EOS dealbreaker. So many beautiful maintained WMs to go around.
Also to answer your question: I will install EOS headless on another partition when I commit between i3, openbox, and hyprland . I am in Wayland Budgie and sometimes pairing the WM wrecks (a little) some settings in the DE.
I’m well aware of the other WM’s, I’ve used them all. This version of BSPWM worked best on my one machine and how i had it setup and would like to continue to do so. The BSPWM version of EOS worked great out of box and was just perfect for my needs. not to mention it looked great.
OK you knew that WM inside out. I understand. That’s important.
I installed BSPWM alongside KDE. Testing only.
Hi. Maintaining a WM got difficult because (unlike traditional DE) its too barebones and ensuring every different component works fine for every user who installed it required being active with fixing configs. I used to do that when I had the time for it, but unfortunately I am currently juggling >1 jobs at once.
You should still be able to copy files manually from the repo to ~/.config. You mention some files are missing. Which files? If you have the set up running on different PC, you should be able to copy paste them to your other system.
the files missing are eos font files and the like. No longer have it running on another pc. still messing around with trying to get it to perform like it used to. but thank you for the reaching out.
I’ll try this method alongside KDE with a VM. Thus far i’ve been unable to get it to work again on this other machine. I’ll update with the results.
@Deathknellz be aware that Plasma is on Wayland.
BSPWM is on X11. So it’s simpler to start from an XFCE4 desktop and
cd Downloads/
git clone https://github.com/EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/bspwm.git
cd bspwm/
mkdir ~/.local/share/fonts
cp -R IosevkaTermNerdFontComplete.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts
cp -R .config/* ~/.config/
chmod -R +x ~/.config/bspwm
chmod -R +x ~/.config/polybar/scripts
yay -S - < packages-repository.txt
answer mostly Return to all. It takes less then 10 minutes.
sudo fc-cache -f -v
Comment out in ~/.config/picom
#refresh-rate = 0;
#glx-no-stencil = true;
select wallpaper with nitrogen plus session BSPWM at login screen and you are good to go.
Disk space used:
6.7 GB XFCE4
1.1 GB BSPWM
So far so good, any issues when hitting Super+Enter to bring up a Terminal. The first Terminal window displays nothing but when hitting a second time it will display its prompt.