Since animated desktop backgrounds are more of a hassle to maintain than
they are worth, I've gone ahead and removed xwinwrap. If you are running
bspwm and still want an animated desktop background, use:
xwinwrap -g 3840x2160 -ov -- mpv -wid WID --loop inf your.video
For reference, you can use xwinwrap with any resolution you want, not
just your screen size. mpv will also accept pretty much any animated
format out there.
Since most of the README wouldn't be relevant to most users anyway,
I've gone ahead and removed it. In the future I may consider writing
a brief guide on how to set up certain things, but for now I'm focusing
more on the dotfiles and bootstrap aspect itself instead of trying to
treat everything as a collective whole.
It turns out that using a literal dot instead of the word dotfiles has a
negative impact on the discoverability of the repository. Since the
directory name can be changed to .files when running `git clone`, this
gives us the freedom to name the repository however we please.
This *should* complete the process of adding full variable DPI support
to an X session. The X DPI is now set dynamically and changes on
resolution change, making this setup easy to deploy to both traditional
and HiDPI environments.
This caused some problems when the ~/.Xresources DPI was 192 and the
screen resolution was 96 DPI. Since I now know how to manipulate cursor
size even after X is started, manually setting Xft.dpi in ~/.Xresources
to 96 or 192 DPI is no longer needed.
Now that I figured out how to change cursor size for all applications
and not just a select few, restarting the X session to use a new cursor
size is no longer necessary.
Changing between desktop environments is no longer a feature since
it's easier and more convenient to use only one environment, although
it's still certainly possible for the determined user.
The bootstrap script was trying to call refresh-keys when the make
target was named update-keys. Since the flag is called --refresh-keys,
it makes sense to call the make target refresh-keys as well.
Now that the desktop labels cover less width and have lower padding,
it makes sense to place label-mode on the right side instead of the left.
This fixes an issue with padding I previously encountered with the old
desktop labels, and also prevents the desktop labels from being shifted
to the right when a label-mode is present.
This lets us use the Arc Dark theme in Qt / KDE applications without
having to worry about setting it through Plasma's system settings
interface.
Note that it's probably possible to change the color values to get any
look you want; one could even automate this process through pywal, and
symlink ~/.config/kdeglobals to ~/.cache/wal/kdeglobals.
Note that we enable lxdm before revoking privileges. The user can
start lxdm manually after this script is finished, but ideally the
system should first be rebooted to ensure that any kernel updates
are applied properly.
It turns out that manual intervention is necessary to resolve dependency
conflicts (bspwm-round-corners-git replaces bspwm), so it is easier to
simply install bspwm-round-corners-git later if wanted.
It turns out that yay automatically handles the process of installing
package dependencies not in the official repositories. This is very
important for some PKGBUILDs, so I've gone ahead and let yay handle
all the AUR packages I build.
Note that plasma-integration is used for KDE theme support without
installing the entire plasma-desktop. The breeze_cursors theme is
included in the breeze package, and xorg-xsetroot is used to change
the default X shaped cursor to a pointer.
Since I figured out how to run both KDE and GTK applications with
their proper settings under any lightweight window manager, and since
I now know how to configure these programs independent of their desktop
environments, this commit removes plasma-desktop, with the possibility
of gnome-shell bring removed in a future commit as well.
The rationale is that using a desktop environment is counter-intuitive
when you already use a window manager. Having multiple desktop environments
to start a session with is certainly amusing, but not at all practical,
especially when you can accomplish anything that needs to be done with
any window manager.
Switching between GNOME, Plasma, and bspwm also caused some inconsistent
X settings that I assume are non-trivial to fix without a proper restart
of the X server.
Simply starting the Plasma desktop environment will create quite a few
files in ~/.config. These files consist of window coordinates and other
non-friendly things, which, IMO, should not belong in the *user's* config
directory.
Regarding other software, GNOME MPV is arguably easier to use and less
buggy than baka-mplayer. Manipulating archives is also much easier with
file-roller than it is with ark. Since I got Audacity to look decent on a
HiDPI display, I no longer have a use for Kwave, which did not have some
of the essential features I used in Audacity anyway.
l3afpad functions much more like a notepad than kwrite, which is what
I'm looking for since I already use Vim. Using Cantata as a mpd client
is simply not the same as using ncmpcpp. zathura and evince are more
than enough for document viewing, hence the removal of Okular.
