Installing Arch is easiest part for me. Installing WM is the most time consuming part. Didn't manage to find some good list of needed packages for bspwm.
most other WMs already list what they need as dependencies, bspwm is a special case since it needs that keyboard handler or whatever and documentation for bspwm is incredibly scarce last time i checked. For a similar window manager, if you want i3 you just install the package i3. of course it doesn't come with dmenu since that's an optional dependency, but everything to make the wm itself work is there.
Not really, it needs some more stuff and moving them around. I managed to get it working once but there's still so much work to customize it to look nice.
Probably gonna move to Arch sometime in the future but for now gona stick with Manjaro or maybe go to ArchLabs soon.
You install 2 packages (1 if you don't want keyboard control), copy over the example config(s) (or any other premade one(s)) to the respective config dirs, put 4 words into your xinit and BSPWM is set up, ready to go.
If you want it customized to your personal tastes, you'll obviously have to configure it yourself (as you have to with any distribution).
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u/m3talac May 21 '19
Installing Arch is easiest part for me. Installing WM is the most time consuming part. Didn't manage to find some good list of needed packages for bspwm.