Audience
Anyone that needs an advanced Window Manager solution
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. Monitors only show the tree of one desktop at a time (their focused desktop). The tree is a partition of a monitor's rectangle into smaller rectangular regions.
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bspwm
github.com/baskerville/bspwm
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