Manjaro-Bspwm is an open source distribution of Linux, a community derived edition that uses the minimalistic Bspwm tiling window manager on top of the latest upstream Manjaro Linux operating system. It is suitable for programmers who are looking for an Arch Linux alternative with a tiling WM.
Available for download as Live DVDs for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures
This special Manjaro edition can be downloaded from Softoware or from its official website as two Live DVD ISO images of approximately 1GB in size each, which must be deployed to either DVD discs or USB flash drives in order to boot them from the BIOS of a computers. Both 64-bit and 32-bit instruction set architectures are supported at this time.
Manjaro-style boot menu
The boot prompt of the Live DVDs is identical with the one used in the official Manjaro Linux distributions, allowing the user to start the live environment with free or non-free drivers, run the HDT (Hardware Detection Tool) utility to view detailed information about your PC’s hardware components, boot an existing operating system from the first disk, as well as to run a memory test.
A window manager for advanced Linux users
As mentioned, this Manjaro edition’s main emphasis is on the Bspwm tiling window manager, but before you can access it, you’ll have to login in using the “manjaro” username/password combination and then start the graphical desktop with the “startx” command (without quotes).
The window manager is extremely basic and can only be used with the keyboard. As discribed on its official website, Bspwm main feature it the ability to display windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.
Bottom line
In conclusion, Manjaro-Bspwm is a very basic operating system specifically designed for a small category of people, mainly programmers and hardcore hackers who love tiling window managers like Bspwm. Do not hesitate to check out the i3 and awsome editions of Manjaro, all of them being available for download on Softoware.
What is new in this release:
- The Bspwm edition is one of our lightest, aiming to minimize ram and cpu usage, maximizing performance. It is especially suitable for developers and programmers due to its distraction free enviroment, syntax highlighting and many helpful command line utilities. It is easily usable with both command line and graphical interface, with keyboard and mouse and is extremely efficient for both system and user.
- The most obvious change with this release is the new theming. Gtk3.20 update made many themes temporarily unavailable and we took this opportunity to move to a more uniform look with other manjaro editions. Maia theme, Breeze icons, soft terminal colors and Compton aim to put less strain on the eyes while also providing a clean interface. The use of mygtkmenu also further improves this editions mouse support that is already unprecedented in the world of tiling window managers. Compositing and effects have been enabled by default out of the necessity of new bspwm features.
- Some more essential changes have happended under the hood however. Bspwm has undergone a major syntax change and this edition features configuration that takes full advantage of the new scripting capabilities provided. For illustration of some of the features see the video links below.
- Another major change is the list of included applications. The Bspwm edition now finally comes with a fully featured browser. Light is a stripped down build of Firefox that uses less RAM and has less dependencies, while still displaying sites correctly and taking advantage of many Firefox plugins. We also included Clonezilla among our many other system rescue tools that make this edition suitable for fixing broken installations, recovering lost files and backing up your system.
- Thus is included as a graphical installer, but we recommend using the Command Line Installer for the best experience.
- Other highlights of this release include: * interactive command line tool to configure bspwm * categorized applications menu based on dmenu and bash (morc_menu) * roxterm replacing urxvt as terminal * lightfirefox replacing midori as a browser * using alsa instead of pulseaudio by default * zsh as default shell (only when using cli-installer) * further improved zsh configuration * improvements in the command line tools * highly configured spacefm * many bug fixes * many scripts ported to dash.
What is new in version 16.05:
- Features:
- New 4.4 kernel
- All gtk3 apps, with no gtk2 (gedit, spacefm, midori, gufw)
- Bspwm-manjaro: New git build of bspwm, with some added extra convenience, and possibility of automatically updating your configuration files if bspwm syntax changes in the future
- Improved multihead support
- Two light and functional panels based on lemonbar: limepanel and lemonpanel
- Openbox style desktop menu based on dmenu-manjaro
- Draggable window gaps: left clicking and dragging window gaps allows resizing windows
- Many powerful scripts and dmenu based helpers
- Controls that aim to be
- usable with either mouse or keyboard
- accessible to use with one hand
- familiar from other places (games, other tiling window managers or browsers)
- Terminal related features:
- Urxvt configured in a beginner friendly way
- Easy switching between terminal colorschemes, featuring base16 colors
- Syntax highlighting in nano
- Bmenu, new cli menu that allows executing most common configuration tasks from command line interactively. From disk partitioning and choosing the kernel to selecting themes and setting screen resolution, bmenu is likely to cover most of your configuration needs.
- Pacli as a package manager. This interactive pacman frontend makes managing packages a breeze
- Ranger, moc and other excellent command line tools
- Zsh as default terminal shell, providing incredible tab completion and other useful features
- Dash as sxhkd shell. This increases performance and ensures that your keybindings work even if you set fish as your default shell
- Beginner friendly configuration for tmux and fish shell, which are not installed but automatically used by the terminal launcher if the user installs them
- Of-my-fish for easy configuration of fish shell
What is new in version 0.8.2:
- The default kernel series has been changed to 3.4-longterm for better upstream support
- LXDE got updated to 0.5.5
- Gnome Package Kit has been replaced with the Kalu upgrade notifier, and - exclusively for Manjaro - a user-friendly interface for pacman (the pacman-gui)
- Comes with an installation guide for beginners
- The CLI installer has been enhanced with additional language support, optional network configuration, hard disk encryption, and several bug fixes
- A 'Testing Installer' option has been added with support for new advanced features including btrfs, nilfs, luks, lvn, gpt, efi, and software-raid
- Plymouth - and its related bugs - have been removed
- Numerous bug fixes have been made, including the Resume/hibernate bugs affecting laptops
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