fyre is now no longer being worked on

I have moved to a cwm based setup using striped down versions of these scripts that can be found here. The main reason for switching is that cwm provides far better mouse support with context menus when clicking on the root window; better sloppy focus support than just using wew; selection of windows by typing a string using menu-window and of course: no unnecessary fluff added.

This repo will stay up as it still provides valuable code samples for those wishing to build their own wmutils environment.

fyre

fyre is set of scripts using standalone tools to form a complete X11 environment. As you run a specific script when you want to achieve a certain window task, this means there is virtually no memory footprint for the environment.

15:50     %fyr | wmutils is love
15:50     %fyr | wmutils is lyfe
15:50    @rocx | wmutils is fyre

Installation

Dependencies

fyre relies on the installation of:

wmutils/core
wmutils/opt
xorg-xprop - Environment information.

Optional

killwa - Drop-in replacement for killw.
xorg-xinput - Enabling/Disabling input devices. (see mouse)

Personal recommendations for tools in your environment:

dash - Massive speed increases over bash/zsh.
sxhkd - To bind scripts to hotkeys.
dmenu - Suckless menu for launching programs.
lemonbar - An excellent statusbar program with clickable support.
hsetroot - Minimal background setter with clean options compared to feh.

Using the Makefile

You have two choices here:

Symbolically link the scripts to PREFIX/bin: make link
Copy the scripts to PREFIX/bin: make install

I recommend the former as it'll allow you make modifications to the scripts with the changes being applied immediately.

Configuration

fyre will look for a configuration file located at $CONFIGDIR/config, see config.example for an idea of can be set. You can copy the default config.example to the correct location using make config.

fyre also places files that are used only when the X11 session is active in /tmp, the reason being that if /tmp is mounted as a tmpfs (a kind of RAM disk), access to these files should theoretically be faster.

Usage

Check out the example sxhkd to see what you can do with fyre.

Start up your hotkey daemon of your choice in your xinitrc and append the following at the end of your xinitrc:

exec runfyre

Extras

Minor things in here that you may be interested in:

Examples of sxhkd and fyre configuration files.
Source fyre variables and general functions into zsh safely.
Example lemonbar-specific output to show and control current groups.
The standalone version of windows that supports contrib's focus.sh

Example Desktops:

Contributors

Contributors for specific scripts are listed in the files where they have inputted ideas or code. Many thanks to the original wmutils authors: dcat & z3bra

Paranoid-Dev / fyre