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PGP signature Error

· One min read
Mahmoud Mohammed
Mahmoud Mohammed
Team Leader, Core Dev, Release Manager, Package Maintainer
Free Palestine 🇵🇸

If you get invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature) error, Open up The Terminal and do :

  •   sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring
  •   sudo pacman-key --init
  •   sudo pacman-key --populate

Not resolved yet? Ok, try this

yay -Syy archlinux-keyring

Polybar Modules

· 3 min read
Mahmoud Mohammed
Mahmoud Mohammed
Team Leader, Core Dev, Release Manager, Package Maintainer
Free Palestine 🇵🇸

weather Modules

  • create an account on OpenWeatherMap
  • go to API page
  • generate an API Key
  • copy the API Key
  • edit ~/.config/bspwm/exodia.conf
  • set weather-API
  • go to OpenWeatherMap
  • search for your city
  • press on the result
  • copy city ID
  • edit ~/.config/bspwm/exodia.conf
  • set weather-city-ID
  • save file and restart polybar (open terminal bspbar)

github-notifications Modules

  • select the classic

  • in Note set the name as you like (e.gPolybar-Notification), in Expiration set to No expiration

  • select notifications

  • copy access tokens

nvim ~/.config/bspwm/exodia.conf

  • set github-username to your username

  • set github-access-token to your accessTokens

Launching Multi Bars (polybar)​

setup polybar for dual monitor

  • edit ~/.config/bspwm/exodia.conf
  • set multi-bar-monitors to true
  • save file and restart bspwm (ctrl + shift + r)

For older version​

I'm gonna apply the steps on Tokyo Theme (same on all themes).

  • run xrandr | grep " connected " | awk '{ print$1 }' to connected monitors

  • edit nvim ~/.config/bspwm/polybar/tokyo/config

  • create new bar [bar/sec]

  • copy everything under [bar/main] (from line No. 41 to line No. 79) as shown down.

  • and set monitor to the second monitor (e.g HDMI-1-0 as it's my second monitor) as shown down.

  • now add the models (e.g as shown down)
modules-left   = xdomenu space LD bspwm RD space LD updates-pacman notification-github netDownSpeed RD space xkeyboard space themes
modules-center = LD mpd RD
modules-right  = volume space battery network LD cpu cpuTemp date LD2 info-cava RD2 bna RD space sysmenu
  • now we finished the second bar config

  • to Launch the bar
polybar -q sec -c  ~/.config/bspwm/polybar/tokyo/config &

  • to Launch the bar always

  • edit nvim ~/.config/bspwm/bin/bspbar

  • Add these lines above else(between line No. 100 and 102)
elif [[ "$Bar" == "tokyo" ]]; then

pkill polybar
polybar -q main -c "$DIR"/"$Bar"/config &
polybar -q sec -c "$DIR"/"$Bar"/config &

  • as shown down

  • finally

Changing SDDM user picture

· One min read
Mahmoud Mohammed
Mahmoud Mohammed
Team Leader, Core Dev, Release Manager, Package Maintainer
Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Changing SDDM user picture

  • copy your pic to /usr/share/sddm/faces/
  • sudo cp IMG.jpg /usr/share/sddm/faces/ (in my case my pic -> IMG.jpg)

  • set pic name to username.face.icon
  • sudo mv IMG.jpg o0xwolf.face.icon

Finally!

Set keyboard Layout

· One min read
Mahmoud Mohammed
Mahmoud Mohammed
Team Leader, Core Dev, Release Manager, Package Maintainer
Free Palestine 🇵🇸

  • edit ~/.config/bspwm/exodia.conf
  •   nvim ~/.config/bspwm/exodia.conf
  • set keyboard-layouts to your layout(e.g us,ara)
Layouts
  • List Layouts localectl list-x11-keymap-layouts
  • all Layouts

for v2022.12 Release or less

  • edit bspwmrc

  •       nvim ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc

  • add

  •   # ----- set keyboard Layout ----- #
      setxkbmap -layout us,ar  # add 'us,ar' #
      setxkbmap -option 'grp:alt_shift_toggle'  # Alt+Shift -> switch layout #

  • replace us, ar to your language

setup custom monitors config

· One min read
Mahmoud Mohammed
Mahmoud Mohammed
Team Leader, Core Dev, Release Manager, Package Maintainer
Free Palestine 🇵🇸

bspmonitors
  • the bspmonitors script will auto-configure all connected monitors
  • if you want to add a custom monitors config, add the path to monitors-layouts in the ~/.config/bspwm/exodia.conf

  • use arandr to configure monitors

  • save your configure

  • add configure file path to the monitors-layouts in the ~/.config/bspwm/exodia.conf

for v2022.12 Release or less

  • use arandr to configure monitors

  • save your configure

  • copy the script from ~/.screenlayout/monitors.sh to ~/.config/bspwm/bin/

  • cp ~/.screenlayout/monitors.sh ~/.config/bspwm/bin/

  • mv ~/.config/bspwm/bin/monitors.sh ~/.config/bspwm/bin/monitors

  • then call this script from bspwmrc file

  • edit ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc

  • nvim ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc

  • save.

  • Restart BSPWM ctrl + shift + r

Adding Music

· One min read
Mahmoud Mohammed
Mahmoud Mohammed
Team Leader, Core Dev, Release Manager, Package Maintainer
Free Palestine 🇵🇸

bspmonitors

you should add your music to ~/Music directory

  • Open up The Terminal and run 
    •     ncmpcpp
          # OR (only for Exodia OS)
          M
  • press 2 to open Song Browser
  • In browser tab, press u to update the Music Database
  • press SPACE to add the songs in your Playlist

Create Your Own Theme

· One min read
Mahmoud Mohammed
Mahmoud Mohammed
Team Leader, Core Dev, Release Manager, Package Maintainer
Free Palestine 🇵🇸

DWM

currently DWM comes with one theme

you can easily create your themes with the same steps for all WMs

  • Go to ~/.config/bspwm/themes/
  • Copy an existing theme and rename it. (eg:Etherium)
  • Edit theme.conf
  • Generate Color Scheme for the theme using python-pywal 
    • wal -i /usr/share/backgrounds/Etherium.jpg
    • add the Color Scheme to colorScheme
    • Hint

      you can use colorPicker to capture colors, press on mod + p to use it

  • Then Edit polybar config
    • warning

      in the polybar modules update the script paths for all modules files

  • Then take a screenshot and save it in the theme directory with name preview.png

Finally!​

Contributing

do you want to share your theme?

  • Fork bspwm-themes Repo
  • add your theme to the community directory
  • Push your changes to a new branch with dev-${GITHUB-USERNAME} 
    • ./git-push.sh -t "dev-mmsaeed509"
  • Submit a pull request