Tiling, Floating · Window Manager
bspwm
bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. It only responds to X events, and the messages it receives on a dedicated socket. bspc is a program that writes messages on bspwm's socket. bspwm doesn't handle any keyboard or pointer inputs: a third party program (e.g. sxhkd) is needed in order to translate…
Bastien Dejean, contributors
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About bspwm
bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.
It only responds to X events, and the messages it receives on a dedicated socket.
bspc is a program that writes messages on bspwm's socket.
bspwm doesn't handle any keyboard or pointer inputs: a third party program (e.g. sxhkd) is needed in order to translate keyboard and pointer events to bspc invocations.
The outlined architecture is the following:
PROCESS SOCKET
sxhkd --------> bspc <------> bspwmNotable features
Represents windows as leaves of a binary tree and delegates keyboard input to an independent hotkey daemon,sxhkd.
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