My BSPWM config for the minimalists

Installation

1. Install fish shell first
2. Clone this repository
3. And run the following:

 cd mnml-bspwm && ./install.fish

Notes

• This setup does not use a display manager
• After logging in to tty, run startx to start bspwm
• File manager, browser, archiver etc. will not be installed
• If by any chance scripts are not executable, run chmod +x SCRIPTFILE

Programs

bspwm, polybar, sxhkd, dunst, dmenu, st, slock, feh, brightnessctl, pamixer, xdg-desktop-portal, xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, polkit-gnome, gnome-keyring

Additional configurations

Here are some more tricks

Touchpad improvements

• Enable natural scroll and tapping

Create a drop-in file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "libinput"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    Option "Tapping" "on"
    Option "NaturalScrolling" "true"
EndSection

• Use gestures to navigate

I have use libinput-getsures for this. You may want to manually install it.

Head over to libinput-getsures github and install it on your distro.

Arch Linux users can just install it from AUR. Package name: libinput-getsures

If you don’t use a trackpad just skip it. No need!

Gnome-keyring PAM setup

Edit and add the following in /etc/pam.d/login

auth       optional     pam_gnome_keyring.so
session    optional     pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start

Use gnome-keyring with git

git config --global credential.helper /usr/lib/git-core/git-credential-libsecret

Hope you’ll like it and feel free to customize it as you like.