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Advanced manual tiling in BSPWM

Leveraging the power of receptacles

2019-06-07

Raw link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kEYKb_DywY

In this screen cast I showcase a shell script that helps with advanced window placement in BSPWM (the Binary Space Partitioning Window Manager). The script leverages BSPWM’s marked node flag, preselection, and receptacles.

Part of my dotfiles.

Related screen casts:

  • Demo of my BSPWM on Debian
  • Overview of SXHKD
  • Why I use TMUX with BSPWM
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