bspwm running under XQuartz in macOS

[sohaeb]

Anyone was able to install bspwm and running it under XQuartz ?

I checked some tutorials and pages but they were either outdated or not fully explaining the proceudre.

Here is a link to the tutorial http://web.archive.org/web/20160824175039/http://cmacr.ae/blog/2015/05/04/seamless-x11-on-osx/

Here is another one I found:

1. Install XQuartz & Homebrew (yeah, no pkgin guide yet....)
2. brew tap baskerville/formulae && brew install --HEAD bspwm sxhkd
3. put this in your .xinitrc : cd $HOME source $HOME/.profile export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" exec >>~/.xsession-errors 2>&1 sxhkd -c $HOME/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc & exec bspwm -c $HOME/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc
4. start Xquartz profit?`]

The problem with the 2nd method, is that XQuartz will run and crash in infinite loop. Removing the .xinitrc file will stop XQuartz from doing that.

[marco-silva0000]

any luck?

[sohaeb]

I followed the steps in the original thread but still couldn't make it work.

Regards, Suhaib Abdulghani

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[Amar1729]

Weird - I used to run bspwm under XQuartz in Mac ~3 years ago and stopped because of this very problem. However, I just tried it out again with the following configs:

# ~/.xinitrc
source $HOME/.profile

export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

exec >>~/.xsession-errors 2>&1

xterm &

exec bspwm -c $HOME/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc

# ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc
#!/bin/sh

PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

sxhkd -c ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc

bspc config focused_border_color        "#fbf1c7"
bspc config active_border_color         "#ebdbb2"
bspc config presel_feedback_color       "#fb4934"

bspc config border_width        2
bspc config winow_gap           10

bspc config top_padding         45
bspc config bottom_padding      15
bspc config left_padding        15
bspc config right_padding       15

bspc config split_ratio         0.50

bspc config focus_follows_pointer true

bspc config single_monocle       true
bspc config gapless_monocle      true
bspc config borderless_monocle   true

And opening XQuartz works fine. It launches an xterm session (from xinitrc) and I can do stuff from there. Have you tried looking through .xsession-errors and seeing if there's anything relevant? Or possibly reinstalling XQuartz/xterm?