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Kyu96
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Anyone here who uses bspwm? Got a few questions :)

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    I do. It's terrific! What do you need to know?
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    @bahua Yeah, I like it too. I am currently in the process oft ricing - what can you recommend me to look into? Already started working on my polybar, planning on checking out rofi too. Not sure how to rice my browser startpage yet.
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    I've been less concerned about making it beautiful, and more with making it my own. I've been using rofi for years already, so I pulled that over as-is. I'm running a Redis backend to store my web search history. I have rofi searches/commands for command execution, window list, web search, web search history pruning, editing common config files, and launching non-steam games.

    I have a keystroke bound for listing certain xprop details for all open windows, so I can easily write rules for them.

    For the sake of graphical consistency and launching speed, I favor qt apps over gtk, and two big examples are nvim-qt as opposed to gvim, and pavucontrol-qt over pavucontrol.

    Though I only open pavucontrol for debugging. The vast bulk of my interaction with pulseaudio happens through scripts I wrote that wrap pacmd, pactl, and pulseaudio-ctl, and talk to a polybar plugin I wrote, over IPC. The pulse plugin that comes with polybar only lets you pick a single output sink to track, and doesn't let you look at your mic at all. I have a script and a key combination for toggling mute on my mic, which I use all the time.

    There's a lot else, but those are the things I can think of right off the dome.
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    @bahua Yeah, i want a volumer slider, a output device switcher option and a mute toggle in my polybar. No idea how to do that tho. I still find audio configuration on linux a pain in the ass. I also use pavucontrol, but only for initial setup too.
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    I'm commuting right now. When I get to my desk I will post some of my configs for polybar. Also though, I got some really valuable information on its config from Brodie Robertson videos.
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    @bahua Yeah I watched his videos, they are nice .
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