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baskerville
bspwm
C2015–2025
baskerville / bspwm

bspwm

A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

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14Distinct people
19Mentions
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8.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-04-07 20:41:49 UTC to 2025-03-12 18:17:36 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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bsnnkv·Jun 6, 2024
The biggest QOL improvements imo are found in the approach to the user-facing API design. Compare basic multi-monitor commands in something like bspwm[1] or yabai[2][3] to twms on Windows where this is typically handled transparently by directional `move` and `focus` commands understanding monitor boundaries. Besides this, Whim has implemented a very functional ctrl+p style command palette which provides a great interface for more advanced on-the-fly/one-time window manager interactions. With komorebi I think that having different border colours to indicate different types of containers is very helpful (one colour for single window stacks, a different colour for monocle containers, a different colour for stacks with multiple windows), as well as custom window-based work area offsets[4] (so if you have an ultrawide monitor with only a sing
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le window on a workspace, you can add offsets to the sides so it doesn't stretch across the whole width and give poor usability). It's not really any one "big thing" but rather a difference in approach which adds up over many small design decisions. [1]: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/563 [2]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/505 [3]: from my own personal yabai config - imo this is not really acceptable for a user facing API, especially for basic commands like focusing and moving: ``` # focus window alt - h : yabai -m window --focus west || yabai -m display --focus west alt - j : yabai -m window --focus south || yabai -m display --focus south alt - k : yabai -m window --focus north || yabai -m display --focus north alt - l : yabai -m window --focus east || yabai -m display --focus east # swap window alt + shift - h : yabai -m window --swap west || yabai -m window --display west && yabai -m display --focus west alt + shift - j : yabai -m window --swap south || yabai -m window --display south && yabai -m display --focus south alt + shift - k : yabai -m window --swap north || yabai -m window --display north && yabai -m display --focus north alt + shift - l : yabai -m window --swap east || yabai -m window --display east && yabai -m display --focus east ``` [4]: https://hachyderm.io/@LGUG2Z/112493589633823318
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