678d0563edRecently, river removed the hardcoded Ctrl+Alt Delete keybinding that exits river and replaces it with a new `exit_session` request. This adds support for that request via the new `exit_session` bind. We also added 3 hardcoded default keybinds to: exit river, reload the config, and open foot. This way, if the config fails to load or is missing, you should still be able to try reload. I guess you're still SOL if you have at least one keybind and it's not reload_config, but you do what you can do.
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# beansprout
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## Overview
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A tiling window manager for the [river](https://codeberg.org/river/river/) Wayland compositor written in Zig.
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The window manager communicates using the [river-window-management-v1](protocol/river-window-management-v1.xml)
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protocol, as well as some of River's additional Wayland protocols.
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Beansprout uses a primary/stack tiling layout inspired by dwm with a customizable ratio and primary count.
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Similarly, beansprout has a 32-bit tag system, rather than workspaces. Each output has its own tags and own
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primary count/ratio.
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## Building
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Requires [Zig](https://ziglang.org/) 0.15.1 or later.
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### Dependencies
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To compile beansprout, you'll need the dependencies found below. I've listed the package names for Gentoo and
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Debian/Ubuntu, but they likely exist on all major distros.
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Needed at both build-time and runtime:
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| Dependency | Gentoo Name | Debian/Ubuntu Name |
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| wayland-client | `dev-libs/wayland` | `libwayland-dev` |
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| pixman | `x11-libs/pixman` | `libpixman-1-dev` |
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| xkbcommon | `x11-libs/libxkbcommon` | `libxkbcommon-dev` |
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| fcft | `media-libs/fcft` | `libfcft-dev` |
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Only needed at build-time:
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| Dependency | Gentoo Name | Debian/Ubuntu Name |
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| wayland-protocols | `dev-libs/wayland-protocols` | `wayland-protocols` |
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Optional (for building man pages):
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| Dependency | Gentoo Name | Debian/Ubuntu Name |
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|--------------------|------------------------------|---------------------|
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| scdoc | `app-text/scdoc` | `scdoc` |
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#### Note for Gentoo Users
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Beansprout is available in my personal [ebuild repo](https://codeberg.org/bwbuhse/buhserepo).
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Right now, it's just a live ebuild, but I will add versioned ebuilds once v0.1.0 is released.
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### Build
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Build and install with:
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```
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zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe --prefix ~/.local install
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```
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Run `zig build -h` to see a list of all options.
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## Usage
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You can either add `beansprout` to the river `init` file or directly run `river -c beansprout`.
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If no keybinds are configured (e.g. missing or broken config), beansprout provides
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fallback keybinds including `Ctrl+Alt+Delete` to exit the River session, `Super+Shift+R`
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to reload config, and `Super+T` to spawn a terminal.
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If beansprout crashes, you can use River's hardcoded `Ctrl+Alt F1`–`F12` bindings to
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switch to another TTY. From there, you can kill River or restart beansprout (you will
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need to set `WAYLAND_DISPLAY` yourself, e.g. `WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 beansprout`).
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## Configuration
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Beansprout is configured with a [KDL](https://kdl.dev) file at
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`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/beansprout/config.kdl`. See [docs/CONFIGURATION.md](docs/CONFIGURATION.md)
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for a full reference and [examples/config.kdl](examples/config.kdl) for an example config.
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## Licensing
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This project follows the [REUSE Specification](https://reuse.software/spec-3.3/),
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all files have SPDX copyright and license information and/or are listed under
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`REUSE.toml`.
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In overview:
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- beansprout's source code is released under the GPL-3.0-only license.
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- beansprout's documentation is released under the CC-BY-4.0 license.
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- beansprout's examples are released under the CC0-1.0 license.
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All licenses can be found under `LICENSES`
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