Colin - need some help to get going with bspwm

[Potatohead]

bspwm seems like a great windowmanager and I am grateful to find it here on the grill :-)

However, I have troubles in working with it and learning the beast. This may be an incredible n00b thing, but I can't find the key bindings....and keybindings are essential in a keyboard driven windowmanager. Again, I am n00b in these things, I have a tendency to try stuf that is way over my head but I hacve also found out that I learn fast that way (yes, the hard, stubborn way...)

Who can tell me where to find or make the keybindings? I could not find, and yes I did google and try.....

* man bspwm tells me about how to make configs (but not what are the actual bindings, IF these are defined in bspwm...
* man sxhkd yield nothing (sxhkd is not installed it seems)
* xbindkeys is an alternative for defining key bindings, but again I am too stupid to see or find the files - ARE keybindings defined or do I have to do it - and if so where?

Advice needed!

[ivanovnegro]

This will get you going:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bspwm

If you want to use xbindkeys, install it and configure it:

http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php?title=Xbindkeys

[Potatohead]

Ok. Thanks Ivan

[machinebacon]

Side note about these 'obscure WMs' -- usually they need to be compiled from source if you want to change some default settings, and xbindkeys is a good idea to override defaults for application starters (see ~/.xbindkeysrc file), but stuff like resizing or changing the mod key usually happens in the window manager's config.h file if there is a source code somewhere :)

[Potatohead]

Thanks for the hint Machinebacon :-) I will look!