BSPWM | Polybar themes collection - Rice selector

🌿 Information

My dotfiles, 11 different rices for BSPWM and Polybar. With a Rice selector to change on the fly.

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Rice Menu

DIstro	Arch
WM	BSPWM
Bar	Polybar
Menu	Rofi
Compositor	Picom Arian8j2
Terminal	Termite
Widgets	ElKowars wacky widgets

📖 Features

• Change RICE on the fly: 10 different Rices now!.

• Rice Selector: Alt + Space bar to launch it.

• Random wallpaper: Every time you switch between rices or reload bspwm with super + alt + r a new wallpaper is set depending on the rice you are on.

• Super + Alt + w changes bethween different wallpapers in the actual rice.

• Hide / Unhide Bar: (Polybar)

• Change transparency on the fly: Increase and decrease transparency in focused or selected window.

⚠️ Attention!!

The rices work on my computer because they were made on my machine with my resolution (1600x900). They should also work on your computer, but you'll have to modify a lot of things to make them work for you. Please read the troubleshooting section at the end of this document.

🎨 The rices...

So yes... i called the Rices with the names of some of my ex girlfriends.

🌸Emilia:

• Color Palette: Tokyo Night

Extra wallpapers in Emilia

🌸Jan

• Color Palette: Cyber Punk

Extra wallpapers in Jan

🌸Aline

• Color Palette: Catppuccin Frappe

Extra wallpapers in Aline

🌸Andrea

• Color Palette: Holly molly i dont know..

Extra wallpapers in Andrea

🌸Cynthia

• Color Palette: u/DominiCzech

Extra wallpapers in Cynthia

🌸Isabel

• Color Palette: One Dark

Extra wallpapers in Isabel

🌸Silvia

• Color Palette: GruvBox

Extra wallpapers in Silvia

🌸Melissa

• Color Palette: Nord

Extra wallpapers in Melissa

🌸Pamela

• Color Palette: elenapan

Extra wallpapers in Pamela

🌸Cristina

• Color palette - Rose Pine
• Main Wall - ElRastaOk

Extra wallpapers in Cristina

🌸z0mbi3:

• Color Palette: Decay
• With Tray icon!!

Extra wallpapers in z0mbi3

Very useful keybindigs to know...

Action	Keybinding
Rice Selector	alt + @space
Menu	super + @space
Hide / Unhide Bar	super + h / super + u
Screenshot	super + Print
Transparency	ctrl + alt {plus,minus,t}
poweroff / Reboot	ctrl + super + alt + {p,r}
Terminal	super + Return
Brute Kill	ctrl + super + alt + k
Wallpaper Changer	super + alt + w
Restart bspwm	super + alt + r

And more.. You need to look sxhkdrc file for more.

📦 setup

💾 Installation:

I will only provide instructions for arch based distributions.

1. First of all we need yay and git

pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si

2. Install Dependencies:

A one time command to install most of these dependencies with your favorite AUR Helper (we just install yay).

yay -S bspwm polybar sxhkd eww dunst rofi lsd jq checkupdates-aur \
playerctl mpd ncmpcpp mpc picom-arian8j2-git xtitle termite betterlockscreen \
ttf-jetbrains-mono nerd-fonts-jetbrains-mono nerd-fonts-terminus ttf-inconsolata \
ttf-joypixels nerd-fonts-cozette-ttf scientifica-font \
feh pamixer libwebp webp-pixbuf-loader xorg-xkill papirus-icon-theme

3. Cloning Dotfiles & Installing:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/gh0stzk/dotfiles.git

# ⚠️ Backuupp!! your filess!!!
[ -e ~/.config/bspwm ] && mv ~/.config/bspwm ~/.config/bspwm-backup-"$(date +%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S)"
[ -e ~/.config/termite ] && mv ~/.config/termite ~/.config/termite-backup-"$(date +%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S)"

# Moving new files to .config
cd dotfiles
cp -r config/bspwm ~/.config/bspwm
cp -r config/termite ~/.config/termite
# Those were the important ones. You still need to move the remaining directories in config to your ~/.config directory.

# Move Fonts and the other stuff
cp -r misc/fonts/* ~/.local/share/fonts/
cp -r misc/bin ~/.local/
cp -r misc/applications ~/.local/share/
cp -r misc/asciiart ~/.local/share/
fc-cache -rv

# You probably MUST use your own .zsh config, but if you want to use mine, do;
cp -r home/.zshrc ~/.zshrc
cp -r config/zsh ~/.config/zsh

# If you will not use my zsh config, just add to your .zshrc file, this;
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ;
  then PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
fi

4. Enabling Services

# For automatically launching mpd on login
systemctl --user enable mpd.service
systemctl --user start mpd.service

Some tips

• Wallpapers are in .webp image format, i added libwebp webp-pixbuf-loader packages for your filemanager (thunar in my case) have the capacity to show webp thumbnails.
• If u dont wanna use the random wallpapers comment line 194 and uncomment line 195 from /home/YourUser/.config/bspwm/scripts/LaunchWorld file.
• Left click in pacman updates module in polybar to update. Right click for show updates available only.

Troubleshooting

• Bspwm Scripts or Launchers not responding

The proper execute permissions on some files should be maintained when you download/clone and copy to your directories, but if not just run the following line by line.

chmod +x ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc
chown $USER ~/.config/bspwm/rice.cfg
chmod +x ~/.config/bspwm/scripts/{external_rules,hu-polybar,LaunchWorld,RiceSelector,screenshoter,updates.sh,weather-mini.sh}
# In Pamela & Andrea Rices, yo u need to give execution permissions to the shell scripts too.
chmod +x ~/.config/bspwm/rices/pamela/widgets/{calendar,calendarlauncher,getSongDuration,mplayer-launcher,music,power-launcher,profile-sys-launcher}
chmod +x ~/.config/bspwm/rices/andrea/arin/launch_bar
chmod +x ~/.config/bspwm/rices/andrea/arin/sidedar/toggle_sidebar
chmod +x ~/.config/bspwm/rices/andrea/arin/scripts/{battery,check-network,mails,music_info,quotes,sys_info,system,volume,weather_info,widget_apps,widget_search,workspaces.sh}

• Other

Credits

All workflows where i stole things to inspire me or for editing, its impossile to remember all but here someones:

• turquoise-hexagon for his beautiful Banana font.
• This post by TheMonkeyLlama i saw it in UnixPorn. Who inspired Aline's Rice.
• adi1090x The master, for his setup in Andrea's Rice and for his beautiful Rofi menus.
• u/DominiCzech For the amazing color palette in Cynthia's Rice. I loose link but im pretty sure he is the owner.
• In Pamela's rice to elenapan For his beautiful color palette. For the eww widgets to the master rxyhn and okklol.
• In z0mbi3 rice, to Anchovyyy for the mazing panel bar. Eww doesn't have a way of using a system tray but this little polybar hack make the trick. Thanks to ikz87.