Tiling window managers in Bunsen by default

johnraff · 2021-11-17 02:00:30

christopherisnow wrote:

Has anyone written/would anyone like to share thoughts on the simplest way to migrate from Openbox to awesome or i3 on BL? I like much about my current OB setup and would to keep Tint2 & most of my current keybindings in a test system with one of those WMs. Is this even possible, or does one have to install a bunch of extra software and write the configs from scratch just to get them running?

It should indeed be possible. A lot of changes came into BL Lithium with the specific aim of making it easier to switch window manager while keeping most of the other BL settings - tint2, conky, keybindings, menu...

For a start, have a look at 'man bunsenlabs-session' and ~/.config/bunsen/autostart. It should be fairly simple for eg awesome or xfwm4. If you have more questions on how to switch it would probably be better to start a new thread in this same section.

christopherisnow · 2021-11-17 15:50:44

Thanks @johnraff, this seems pretty straightforward. I've already discovered some keybind conflicts, but maybe that could be worked around by assigning the WM its own Mod key and leaving the basic BL binds with Super.

Will see how Tint2 and co. play with awesome and report back...

christopherisnow · 2021-11-18 14:36:27

For other tiling WM noobs, I found this quite complete transition guide: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=5766

johnraff · 2021-11-19 00:12:48

^Very thorough tutorial.

Just, don't forget it was written before BL supported alternative window managers inside the regular BL session so while this still works:

hhh wrote:

awesome creates it's own session, so logout and choose awesome as your session

it will start an independent awesome session, where everything needs to be set up. That might be what you, or some users, want, but if you set awesome as the BL window manager in ~/.config/bunsen/autostart and continue using the BL session at login, then there might be less work to do if you want to keep most of the regular BL facilities.

christopherisnow · 2021-11-20 15:00:11

^Thanks for clarifying. What seems most helpful in that tutorial are the rc.lua and theme.lua files themselves... as well as the usage crash course.

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