 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. We're going to be looking at a taking excuse me. I'm gonna be taking a first look Aspector WM or spectrum or whatever they call it. I'm very just gonna call it specter WM Now I will Be right up front and saying this is really a first look. This is not a review We're gonna see my reaction to loading this up for the first time I've done a little bit of research on how to get this started so that hopefully this works right out of the box for me If if it doesn't well, you'll get to see me debug it live or you know recorded live. So This right here is So I'm gonna just jump into this right here. This is still DWM This is not a specter WMS, but I want to show you how to install this So I'm gonna install this on bare metal. I'm not gonna install this in a virtual machine So we're gonna hope that this works So in order just to install this on arch you just do super pseudo Pac-man Dash s and specter WM as you can see I've already done this. So I'm not gonna actually go through and Just bring it be just reinstalling it. So I'm not going to do that. But that's really all you have to do. So I'm going to pause the video here and Hopefully when we come back You'll see me in specter WM as it comes out of the box. So pausing now. All right, I'm back so this what you're seeing here is what Specter WM looks like out of the box Kinda so for you at your Background may be black. You may not have this exception up here if you have x-lock installed so It may look a little bit different for you, but I've had to do some things off-camera in order to get this to actually work. So first Default key bindings out of the box. Your super key is going to be the alt key Probably it also might be the super key. So if alt key doesn't work try the The mod the windows key for me It did end up being the windows key So you do super shift enter to get a terminal and you're going to get X term X term is not a real terminal anymore It's an old terminal Maybe you can zoom up. Yeah, you can't zoom up Okay, I don't even know nobody nobody uses X term. It's just not something real people use So to get out of that you super shift C Super shift X close that okay So and then super P to get term to get D menu and we'll open up a real terminal, which is termite That way we can zoom in a little bit Just clear this so the things I've done off-camera by default Spectre WM stores its default configurations in slash at sea and then spectre WM.com. Okay, that's where it stores it. So I've I've done this. I've done see pseudo CP Slash at sea and then transfer it to dot spectre WM.com in my home directory. I've done that. I Also did this shot this cat this command here cat this path here which is and Then cat it into or appended it to the end of our spectre WM.com file. These are the default Key bindings for spectre WM that way they're all in one file. So Just let's get out of that here and go. Let's go look at the file now that I've created So we'll do them spectre WM.com and Okay Oops, maybe the reason why I have oh you want it so by default these things are commented out I've already commented them, but We're gonna uncomment them here in a minute. Anyways, if you're on arch Linux in the default spectre WM configuration file you'll have to pseudo into that in in a in a text editor and change this line here to To this or some other font that actually you have installed because by default it comes with a font called Terminus and that is not installed on at least on my system by default and that what will make it so that you can't log in To spectre WM. So that's kind of a pain in the butt That's one of the reasons why this has taken me so long because what was instantaneous for you It took me like 20 to 30 minutes actually get this up and running so My spectre WM is a dynamic tiling window manager, which means that when you Open up a new window. You get the master stack layout. So my shift C closed. Oops My shift X closes these windows Okay, um and You know, basically that's what spectre WM is it's very very much like DWM only the configuration file here as you can see is in plain text instead of written in C Now spectre WM itself is written in C, but they've gone through and made this like Intermediate file that allows you to use things in plain text kind of like when like i3 does i3 is written in a different programming language Than what its configuration file is Um, so let's go through this real quick and kind of customize spectre WM so that it actually works So first I'm going to We're gonna go to home here and uncomment this and go here at the end and just change this to 10 Okay, that's good and I come at this and uh I won't come at this and this And spawn position next is good Warp focus yes and work. Yes Um, and we can and comment all of these things here And we don't need to maximize color, uh or the unfocused Yeah, we can do that one And we do these and we change these to so we can have some gaps here and make these like uh, let's see here five and five Okay And let's see here No, so we want the bar enabled obviously Okay, and we want the Hmm Let's see here Eventually we're gonna go through and customize you so that they're a little bit More ricy Let me just go ahead Come on I'll uncomment a lot of this stuff here All right, so this one here Is going to be the default script so you can't see up here, but the um Eventually we'll have you know, like a status bar or whatever up here at the top and um That is that will allow You know, you put clock and your weather and your volume and stuff up there and that's all done by a bash script so it's very similar to um It's kind of similar to how dwm does it only they use exit route. This is using You know a bash script All right, so uh, let's see here. I think just if I left yep, that's right um Clock enabled clock format that's fine for now. We'll change that later I'm not sure what iconic enabled means. I'm so we're here in a minute. Let's do this Watch shift enter some man specter wm So every all the documentation you'll need is in the man page Let's I you know, I did this in in x x term Let's do this in term. I so we can actually So mod p termite And we can zoom in Man specter wm. Okay, that's good zoom out just a little bit um Let's see if Okay, so mod and shift and j and k move the But you can't Make one bigger than the other. Okay, so let's put out of this and try again. All right So anyways every all those things that you can do with the bar with the key bindings and stuff Are all right in here in your man page And I'm not gonna go through this because I'm a dude and I don't need to read the instructions Um, so we're just gonna close out of that. Um, now we want to go down here to the bottom Um, we're not gonna do any Oh, before actually what we're gonna do before we save this we're gonna un-program We're gonna actually we're gonna delete this line here because I don't need it um And we're gonna change this to termite Okay, and uncomment it okay, and we can actually Do these for now as well um Eventually, I'll change that to rofi because I prefer rofi through d menu, but for now d menu is fine um So let's see here we want to uh So this section here changes, you know defines Whether or not you want a class of windows to be floating or Uh, you know full screen. It looks like you can also have it so that it can do flow and On a specific, you know workspace, which is cool um All right, so here are our key bindings so bar toggle bar toggle workspace I'm not sure what button two is cycle layout is mod space. I'm assuming that goes from Floating to non-floating um Float toggle and actually mod t is floating So Interesting All right, that doesn't seem to work um mod m Focus so that's gonna be like focus on the main probably focus on the master window This moves focus between left and right Let's see here. Oh, okay. Oh interesting. So mod shift equals. I'll say let's let's do um Let's open up another termite window so we can Oops mod t mod So that's good. That was mod space. All right, so mod shift equals minus No, that's height So what's the what's to change the width? master shrink so mod h and mod e mod h and mod e Well, that's not so it's mod h and mod l Okay, there's no shift. All right All right, that's good good to learn All right. Uh, let's see here. Um Maximize toggle so if I do mod e that just makes it uh full screen. So that's the full screen uh key binding um mod p's for This we want to change this to mod really want to change it to mod d Hopefully there's nothing else here Move work workspace Wonder what it would do if you had 22 workspaces Oh, it actually does allow you it does actually mod shift Interesting. So it actually has all 22 workspaces because that's the the default Now allow you to change to to 22 interesting All right, so we want mod shift I'm gonna change this to mod shift x to quit Out of Uh specured up. I'm so change letter x. Okay, and that means Down here where mod shift x actually is Where's it at? All right, we want to change this to mod q Because this is what I'm used to Um, let's see if there's actually a mod q already. So let's let's actually Close this we uh, it's not in the way I want to make sure there's not a mod q already Because we can't have a we do have a mod q is Restart I think we want this to be the mod shift q Why why doesn't my like mod r for restart mod shift r is fine Where is there like another mod r here? No, that's so that should work. Okay And we want to do mod mod plus q All right, that should work too good and um So some mod r should go through see what the uh So let's see. We want to see what the Key binding to restart super or specter Wm is and I think it's going to be mod q which is just what we changed I think that's what it means by restart. I wish there was some order to these, right? And kind of a weird order Like it would be nice if all the um Like the window the window management key bindings were in the same position or in the same spot And then it would go to the all the ones that control, you know, the works the window manager itself Um, it's weird that it's not. Okay, so let's uh Write this and do mod q Okay, so now if that worked I looks like I um misspelled something up here Yeah termite mod so mod shift r now should or mod r. Yeah mod r Okay, so control enter should Control shift enter it. Yep opens termite. Good. Okay, so in the mod q should quit that. Excellent Working with fire now people All right, so I'm still getting the exception up here for x lock What so that means x lock is still in here some x lock is still in here somewhere. Apparently it needs x lock Okay, so you aren't We'll install x lock pseudo Pac-man dash s x lock x lock's not in them in the repository. Okay, so yay dash s x lock x lock is not in the What's the what's the package name then weird? Okay, so you want to want? Um Let's Do this Let's cd Vim slash etsy slash specter wm.com Slash x lock. Okay, and then We want to put that line back in program Good All right, we want to put changes to i3 lock. Okay, and we'll close this Pseudo pac-man. I think I actually already have i3 lock installed i3 lock and i3 lock color are in Conflict, okay, so I actually have i3 lock color installed so We'll see if This works color r. No that didn't work. Okay, so maybe it doesn't need the color identifier mod r Ha ha it worked. Okay That was Way more painful than it needed to be So This is The video has gone on for entirely too long and I'd like to actually rice this a little bit But I think what I'm going to do is end the video here uh because You know This is basically what specter wm is and I've showed you a little bit about how to go about Setting things up and debugging things a little bit and then I will do another video You know in a couple weeks or whatever Where I go through and rice this and you know Show how to create that script for the bar and get the bar actually working so that it's actually in the right position and everything and More things like that so it actually looks like something that you'd want to want to use Because right now this is kind of blah. It's kind of blah. 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