Desktop wall Issue

[karambaq]

./desktop_wall switch north
Traceback (most recent call last): File "./desktop_wall", line 46, in path = os.environ.get('BSPWM_SCRIPTS_DIR') + "/get_focused" TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'

[olzraiti]

You'll need to set $BSPWM_SCRIPTS_DIR environment variable. It should point to the path where the bspwm scripts are. I initialize the variable in .profile.

[karambaq]

@olzraiti Thanks, that's help. But I have another issue, can I post in this thread or create a new one?

[olzraiti]

Either way is fine. :-)

[karambaq]

@olzraiti /home/maxq/rice/bspwm_scripts/get_focused: line 2: jq: command not found unexpected desktop name: [b''] (call 'desktop-wall init')

[olzraiti]

You'll need to install jq.

[karambaq]

@olzraiti Oh, stupid me. It's ok now. But I still can't see my desktops layout like in your gif on reddit, I tried to execute every script, no errors, but no work. How can I found what's wrong?

[olzraiti]

See if the desktops were initialized correctly with bspc query -D --names. For 3x2 grid the name should be:

1-1                                                                                                                                                        
2-1
3-1
1-2
2-2
3-2

[karambaq]

@olzraiti Yes it is.

[olzraiti]

Are you using the desktop_wall script for navigation? Go to desktop 1-1 (you can check your current desktop with bspc query -D -d --names). Then switch the desktop with $BSPWM_SCRIPTS_DIR/desktop_wall switch east. Check your current desktop again - you should be in 2-1.

[karambaq]

@olzraiti Yes, It works fine. But I can't see notification about changing of workspace.

[olzraiti]

bin/notify_focused_desktop fires the notification - but it works only on my custom notification system (bar_notifyd). You could edit notify_focused_desktop to send the notification with notify-send instead of my custom notify, but that wouldn't really work since the default notification manager doesn't support multiline notifications. I trigger notify_focused_desktop after changing the desktop in sxhkdrc.

[karambaq]

I copied all from you bin/ folder and now when I try start bar_notifyd: cat: /tmp/xrandr_output: Folder doesn't exist /usr/local/bin/bar_notifyd: строка 98: inotifywait: command not found

[olzraiti]

bar_notifyd assumes that xrandr output is found at /tmp/xrandr_output (I cache it there in my .xinitrc because it takes quite long for xrandr to output). You can either also cache xrandr output to /tmp/xrandr_output or edit bar_notifyd to use xrandr output directly.

Make sure you have installed inotifywait.

[karambaq]

It looks like sind is out of date.

[olzraiti]

Unfortunately, yes. You can get the sources here and build it manually (https://github.com/olzraiti/simplenotificationdaemon.)

[olzraiti]

Though you don't need sind for using bar_notifyd! You can send notifications to bar_notifyd with notify. Sind just allows using the bar_notify notification system for freedesktop notifications.

[karambaq]

@olzraiti Looks like it works. But is seems like empty notification in the top left corner.

[olzraiti]

Is it there all the time? Do the notifications work otherwise?

[karambaq]

@olzraiti Only when I change workspace. May be I need to initialize icons? But here?

[olzraiti]

I'm guessing parsing xrandr output is failing. You can debug bar_notify by echoing some of the values parsed from xrandr output.

I initialize icons in .profile. You can test whether the notifications work regardless of icons by notify this is a test