KLV-Bspwm test build

[wiak]

And the long-awaited KLA-BspwmCE-1.0 Alpha is ready for testing. You can download the assembly script below or download the finished image

I'm delighted you used that script form Sofiya! I much prefer building it that way since will remain ever up-to-date version and just boot out-of-the-box!

EDIT: Built it from the provided script. The build seems to have worked perfectly and I booted into it, as I hoped, out-of-the-box; didn't take long at all to build! Haven't a clue yet how to use Bspwm itself (somehow I managed to get Cherrytree notes to appear!). It looks really great though. I tried connecting via Internet Wifi, but so far don't know how to save my wlan details. Late here, so will try again tomorrow though. Lots of fun this one.

[Sofiya]

And the long-awaited KLA-BspwmCE-1.0 Alpha is ready for testing. You can download the assembly script below or download the finished image

I'm delighted you used that script form Sofiya! I much prefer building it that way since will remain ever up-to-date version and just boot out-of-the-box!

EDIT: Built it from the provided script. The build seems to have worked perfectly and I booted into it, as I hoped, out-of-the-box; didn't take long at all to build! Haven't a clue yet how to use Bspwm itself (somehow I managed to get Cherrytree notes to appear!). It looks really great though. I tried connecting via Internet Wifi, but so far don't know how to save my wlan details. Late here, so will try again tomorrow though. Lots of fun this one.

Hi @Wiak
hot keys " super + d " Main menu with programs

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#
# 
wm independent hotkeys
#

# Emulador de Terminal
super + Return
	defaultterminal 

# Emulador de screenshot
Print
	defaultscreenshot

# Iniciar programa
super + d
	rofi -show drun

# hacer que sxhkd vuelva a cargar sus archivos de configuración:
super + Escape
	pkill -USR1 -x sxhkd

#
# teclas de acceso rápido bspwm
#

#salir/reiniciar bspwm
super + alt + {q,r}
	bspc {quit,wm -r}

# cerrar y matar
super + {_,shift + }w
	bspc node -{c,k}

# alternar entre el diseño de mosaico y monóculo
super + m
	bspc desktop -l next

# enviar el nodo marcado más nuevo al nodo preseleccionado más nuevo
super + y
	bspc node newest.marked.local -n newest.!automatic.local

# intercambiar el nodo actual y el nodo más grande
super + g
	bspc node -s biggest

#
# estado/banderas
#

# establecer el estado de la ventana
super + {t,shift + t,s,f}
	bspc node -t {tiled,pseudo_tiled,floating,fullscreen}

# establecer las banderas de nodo
super + ctrl + {m,x,y,z}
	bspc node -g {marked,locked,sticky,private}

#
# enfocar/cambiar
#

# focus the node in the given direction
#super + {_,shift + }{h,j,k,l}
#	bspc node -{f,s} {west,south,north,east}

super + {_,shift + }{Left,Down,Up,Right}
       bspc node -{f,s} {west,south,north,east}


# focus the node for the given path jump
super + {p,b,comma,period}
	bspc node -f @{parent,brother,first,second}

# focus the next/previous node in the current desktop
super + {_,shift + }c
	bspc node -f {next,prev}.local

# focus the next/previous desktop in the current monitor
super + bracket{left,right}
	bspc desktop -f {prev,next}.local

# focus the last node/desktop
super + {grave,Tab}
	bspc {node,desktop} -f last

# focus the older or newer node in the focus history
super + {o,i}
	bspc wm -h off; \
	bspc node {older,newer} -f; \
	bspc wm -h on

# focus or send to the given desktop
super + {_,shift + }{1-9,0}
	bspc {desktop -f,node -d} '^{1-9,10}'

#
# preselect
#

# preselect the direction
super + ctrl + alt + {Left,Down,Up,Right}
	bspc node -p {west,south,north,east}


# preselect the ratio
super + ctrl + {1-9}
	bspc node -o 0.{1-9}

# cancel the preselection for the focused node
super + ctrl + space
	bspc node -p cancel

# cancel the preselection for the focused desktop
super + ctrl + alt + space
	bspc query -N -d | xargs -I id -n 1 bspc node id -p cancel

#
# move/resize
#

# expand a window by moving one of its side outward
#super + alt + {h,j,k,l}
#	bspc node -z {left -20 0,bottom 0 20,top 0 -20,right 20 0}

# contract a window by moving one of its side inward
#super + alt + shift + {h,j,k,l}
#	bspc node -z {right -20 0,top 0 20,bottom 0 -20,left 20 0}

# move a floating window
super + ctrl + {Left,Down,Up,Right}
	bspc node -v {-20 0,0 20,0 -20,20 0}

# Custom move/resize
alt + super + {Left,Down,Up,Right}
	/root/.config/bspwm/scripts/bspwm_resize {west,south,north,east}


# ---------------------------------------------
# CUSTOM
# ---------------------------------------------

# Brave-Nightly

super + shift + f
	defaultbrowser

# SYNAPTIC

super + ctrl + b
	run-as-spot octoxbps

# pcmanfm

super  + a
     defaultfilemanager
     
# Touchpad
Menu
     touchpad

# Pavucontrol

super + alt + p
     pavucontrol &

# Volme toggle

XF86AudioMute
     pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle
     
# Volume +

XF86AudioRaiseVolume   
     pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +5%
        
# Volume -

XF86AudioLowerVolume
     pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -5%

# Brightness +
# XF86MonBrightnessUp
#     brightnessctl set +5%

# Brightness -
# XF86MonBrightnessDown
#     brightnessctl set 5%-

[rockedge]

@Sofiya I ran a build, which completed successfully and booted with no problems. I then thought right away about using the full real time kernel instead of the stock version.......

For those musicians and video producers/editors.......KLV-Bspwm-RT is available in ISO form for immediate testing!

Following the success of KLV-Spectr-RT, the FirstRib team is offering KLV-Bspwm-RT using the same full real time kernel as it's cousin.

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Download link -> KLV-Bspwm-RT.iso 640 M

[geo_c]

I tried connecting via Internet Wifi, but so far don't know how to save my wlan details. Late here, so will try again tomorrow though. Lots of fun this one.

In KLV-spectr-RT I'm using nmtui which probably has some network manager dependencies. I think @rockedge had nmtui built in the rootfs. At any rate it works great.

While connected, if wanting to go on and offline I simply use the ip link set wlan0 down or ip link set wlan0 up command in the terminal, though it can be brought up and down from nmtui, it's just as easy to type the command.

[rockedge]

First test drives look good. Again the ISO download link:

Download link -> KLV-Bspwm-RT.iso 640 M

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[Sofiya]

First test drives look good. Again the ISO download link:

Download link -> KLV-Bspwm-RT.iso 640 M
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@rockedge
this 12KL_gtkdialogGTK3filemnt64 will overwrite default settings files. use this https://gitlab.com/sofija.p2018/kla-ot2 ... line=false

[rockedge]

@Sofiya I am uploading a new version of the ISO including the correct SFS.

If you want to add the RT kernel as an option for a kernel during the build script run we could arrange it

[Sofiya]

@Sofiya I am uploading a new version of the ISO including the correct SFS.

If you want to add the RT kernel as an option for a kernel during the build script run we could arrange it

@rockedge
You must have been in a hurry as the plugin has been amended just now.
https://gitlab.com/sofija.p2018/kla-ot2 ... line=false

[Sofiya]

@Sofiya I am uploading a new version of the ISO including the correct SFS.

If you want to add the RT kernel as an option for a kernel during the build script run we could arrange it

Here I need to try, I'm trying to load another kernel and my temperature sensor disappears from the Polybar panel

[Sofiya]

My question is, do you have console output? In my previous assembly, I had access to the console in this one, I have no exit for some reason I don’t understand. Damn, as if each assembly lives its own lifee

[rockedge]

@Sofiya Each does have a personality! Now my polybar is not coming on.

[Sofiya]

@Sofiya I am uploading a new version of the ISO including the correct SFS.

If you want to add the RT kernel as an option for a kernel during the build script run we could arrange it

Tested with kernel " 00 modules-6.1.38-rock-rt13c " booted normally, idle is quiet. The only thing to show the temperature sensor is to change the output in the script to " thermal-zone = 0 "
/root/.config/polybar/hack/modules.ini
comment out 993 line ( ;; ) ;;hwmon-path = /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/hwmon/hwmon4/temp1_input

note:
I need to try with the rest of the cores and I think to conclude "thermal-zone = 0" for all .of course AMD and Nvidia are hard to guess here

[rockedge]

Have KLV-Bspwm-RT running pretty well. I am going to boot on a bare metal machine and test out the temperature sensors. In this QEMU virtual machine there isn't any CPU sensors.

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Though Bspwm is a bit better configured to look good, I prefer Spectrwm's hot key combinations and master stack - workspace concept. Spectrwm is much lighter overhead for solid RT performance. I like that Bspwm has a lot of customization potential and so far seems to run well with an full real time kernel. Need @geo_c to put it use and see how the tape transports operate with a mixer and sequencer with software synthesizers.

[Sofiya]

Have KLV-Bspwm-RT running pretty well. I am going to boot on a bare metal machine and test out the temperature sensors. In this QEMU virtual machine there isn't any CPU sensors.

temperature sensor, battery, brightness sensor must be set in the scripts of the theme itself for your equipment

let's say that the brightness sensor is not displayed, you need to install it under your video card. After looking at what is written in ( / sys/class/backlight ) and register it in the script ( / root/.config/polybar/hack/bars.ini )

[Sofiya]

( / root/.config/polybar/hack/bars.ini ) / to display the battery set ( BAT1 ) or ( BAT0 ) .also most likely the name of the adapter

by typing the command in the console

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ls -1 /sys/class/power_supply/

[Sofiya]

about the temperature sensor was written above viewtopic.php?p=97456#p97456

[geo_c]

Need @geo_c to put it use and see how the tape transports operate with a mixer and sequencer with software synthesizers.

I'll be giving KLV-Bspwm a test drive using the iso. Truth is at this point in time, after having installed cpupower and switching my OS's cpu scaling to performance as needed, all of the KLV's -- KLV-airedale-sr2, KLV-airedale-RT, and KLV-spectr-RT run very well, KLV-spectr being the best in terms of responsiveness.

I am looking forward to seeing what a heavier tiling window manager feels like, but I suspect Spectr is hard to beat. It's predictable, light and fast, easily customizable, rarely breaks above 1GB of ram usage even with heavy applications and browsers running, and is extremely easy to navigate with keystrokes once they are learned.

There is the one thing missing in Spectr that @Sofiya seems to have figured out in Bspwm, that being the sensors.

If the new download is in the first link you provided, I'll download the latest version and install it.

[Sofiya]

Maybe, of course, there is already an improved version of Polybar on github.com where you don’t need to edit configs, but I don’t know about it

[Sofiya]

Need @geo_c to put it use and see how the tape transports operate with a mixer and sequencer with software synthesizers.

If the new download is in the first link you provided, I'll download the latest version and install it.

yes this is her .
KLA-BspwmCE-1.0 Alpha

[rockedge]

@geo_c Here is the RT version ready to go: KLV-Bspwm-RT.iso.

Please try both out and see how they perform. Or just swap in the RT kernel if needed on the alpha1

[geo_c]

@geo_c Here is the RT version ready to go: KLV-Bspwm-RT.iso.

Please try both out and see how they perform. Or just swap in the RT kernel if needed on the alpha1

Well hopefully that's the same as the previous link, because I'm posting from it right now. It certainly has a cool look to it, and I've installed Xfe and linked my librewolf appimage into it. Everything seems to be running well. But it's cryptic, I need to open a cheat sheet manual and see how to navigate.

Thankfully I think @Sofiya installed a lot of helpful tools like rofi, so I'm able to switch between open windows, otherwise I have no clue so far.

It runs super fast and btop is reporting really low ram usuage. I'll need to spend some time with it and report back:

[Sofiya]

Probably should have chosen some bar easier If it's too hard.
It's just, in my opinion, the most beautiful of those that I know, and functional

[geo_c]

Probably should have chosen some bar easier If it's too hard.
It's just, in my opinion, the most beautiful of those that I know, and functional

Well I had a look at the sxhkdrc and so I can move around a little with keystrokes. Don't know how to manipulate the nodes yet, and it seems easy to lose track of windows, but I'm able to resize and switch from tiling, semi-tiling and fullscreen, so that's helpful.

Bspwm looks very nice, and I think it looks polished as well as running fast. There are as @rockedge noticed a lot more keystroke combinations pre-configured in spectrwm, but bspwm has a lot more desktop configuration options for sure. They're just going to take me some time to figure out how to use.

I'm keeping Bspwm around and will build my skills with it.

I like the pup gtk chooser. I changed the polybar theme a couple times, and I never really found the combination that gave me the original OOTB.

In the menu there is the "about Xfce" window, and it seems there are some Xfce elements involved, or is that just built into Void?

[Sofiya]

Probably should have chosen some bar easier If it's too hard.
It's just, in my opinion, the most beautiful of those that I know, and functional

In the menu there is the "about Xfce" window, and it seems there are some Xfce elements involved, or is that just built into Void?

We have xfce4-power-manager installed, maybe it pulls the installation of any other xfce packages.most likely it's dependencies.

[Sofiya]

And so, at the request of @geo , xfce4-power-manager will be removed, and the brightness control will be replaced by "brightnessctl" which will significantly reduce the load on memory. Other adjustments will also be made to make the system much smoother
Adjustments will be made soon

[geo_c]

And so, at the request of @geo , xfce4-power-manager will be removed, and the brightness control will be replaced by "brightnessctl" which will significantly reduce the load on memory. Other adjustments will also be made to make the system much smoother
Adjustments will be made soon

Oh, I wasn't actually requesting to remove the power manager. I was just curious, but I'm not opposed.

I'm starting to like this bspwm. It looks really nice and it's really fast. I still haven't figured out how to split the screen horizontally.

I like pcmanfm better than thunar.

[geo_c]

So configuring the way windows spawn is not exactly simple in Bspwm.

After an hour of reading, I'm still no closer to toggling a workspace from vertical split to horizontal.

Though there is a lot more control over how workspaces are arranged, the learning curve is a bit steep.

I'm not giving up however, because this is a pretty cool window manager.

Next I'll give the window split adventure a rest and install audio apps to see how it performs.

[geo_c]

@rockedge a quick test of ardour looks really good. Transport and controls responding almost instantly just like Spectr.

Hard to test the way it handles plugin windows because I can't figure out how to close a plugin window once it's open. I used the keystroke for close window in sxhkdrc and it closes down the whole application, INSTANTLY!

But I don't know how to close those floating plugin windows yet.

edit: This OS is really snappy fast!

[rockedge]

There is the one thing missing in Spectr that @Sofiya seems to have figured out in Bspwm, that being the sensors.

Knowing now how @Sofiya dealt with the sensors with Bspwm, might help in fixing up the sensors in KLV-Spectr

We can try out removing Thunar from KLV-Spectr and replacing it with pcmanfm and make it an option in the build script PLUG file.

Other adjustments will also be made to make the system much smoother

Will make this RT version of this distro a good candidate for use by the sound engineers and musicians..........

[geo_c]

@Sofiya I know you're working on a new version. Some things I'm encountering:

1) The logout gui launched from polybar appears to be disabled on bootup, a pop up window appears with the message "disabled" and when trying to use it to shutdown, a window with a list of options "y,yes,n,no" appears, and it does nothing.

2) I booted and walked away from the machine, when I came back the screen was locked and I couldn't figure out how to get back in. I don't see a key combo in the conf files.

3) gtk-2 apps don't use the gtk-4 theme, even though the theme contains a gtk2-rc, so I guess that should be set in /root/.config/gtk-2.0, by creating a file.

4) should I link ufw to a service to start a firewall? I don't see a gui like gufw (which requires a link also)

5) also it looks like I need to manually link time zone info, which I can do.

Things that do seem to be working well are pulseaudio and pavu,

yes this is her .
KLA-BspwmCE-1.0 Alpha

EDIT It seems though that I might possibly not be using the current CE version, because I downloaded from @rockedge's link. If he used CE_alpha-1.0 for the rootfs then they would be the same.