- PopChar 4 sits discreetly – even invisibly, if you like – in the menu bar, but when you click that little icon a floating window pops up showing you the full range of characters available.
- You don't want the floating mini toolbar. You want the context menu for the actual callout/text box.) 4. Click Edit Text. You will be taken to the older interface where all fonts will be available. Tip: Once you get the font how you like, save the callout or text box as a QuickStyle so you can save some steps in the future.
bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. bspwm supports multiple monitors and is configured and controlled through messages. EWMH is partially supported.
- 3Configuration
- 3.3Panels
- 3.4Scratchpad
- 4Troubleshooting
Installation
3.6 Set up a desktop where all windows are floating; 3.7 Keyboard; 4 Troubleshooting. 4.1 Blank screen and keybindings don't work; 4.2 Cursor themes don't apply to the desktop; 4.3 Window box larger than the actual application; 4.4 Problems with Java applications; 4.5 Problems with keybindings using fish; 4.6 Performance issues using fish.
Install the bspwm package or bspwm-gitAUR for the development version.
Starting
Run
bspwm
using xinit.Configuration
The example configuration is located in
/usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/
.Copy/install
bspwmrc
from there into ~/.config/bspwm/
and sxhkdrc
into ~/.config/sxhkd/
.The file
bspwmrc
needs to be executable since the default example is simply a shell script that in turnconfigures bspwm via the bspc
command.These two files are where you will be setting wm settings and keybindings, respectively.
See the bspwm(1) and sxhkd(1) manuals for detailed documentation.
Note for multi-monitor setups
The example bspwmrc configures ten desktops on one monitor like this:
You will need to change this line and add one for each monitor, similar to this:
You can use
xrandr -q
or bspc query -M
to find the monitor names.The total number of desktops were maintained at ten in the above example. This is so that each desktop can still be addressed with
super + {1-9,0}
in the sxhkdrc.Rules
There are two ways to set window rules (as of cd97a32).
The first is by using the built in rule command, as shown in the example bspwmrc:
The second option is to use an external rule command. This is more complex, but can allow you to craft more complex window rules. See these examples for a sample rule command.
If a particular window does not seem to be behaving according to your rules, check the class name of the program. This can be accomplished by running
xprop | grep WM_CLASS
to make sure you're using the proper string, which requires the xorg-xprop package.Panels
Using lemonbar
An example panel for lemonbar-gitAUR is provided in the examples folder on the GitHub page. You might also get some insights from the lemonbar wiki page. The panel will be executed by placing
panel &
in your bspwmrc. Check the optdepends in the bspwm package for dependencies that may be required.To display system information on your status bar you can use various system calls. This example will show you how to edit your
panel
to get the volume status on your BAR:Next, we will have to make sure it is called and redirected to
$PANEL_FIFO
:Using yabar
Using the example panel using lemonbar requires you to set your environment (.profile), and make sure the panel scripts are on your path. Easier panel to set up is yabarAUR, which has just one config file.
Using polybar
Polybar can be used by adding
polybar example &
to your bspwmrc configuration file, where example
is the name of the bar.Scratchpad
Using pid
You can emulate a dropdown terminal (like i3's scratchpad feature if you put a terminal in it) using bspwm's window flags. Append the following to the end of the bspwm config file (adapt to your own terminal emulator):
The
sticky
flag ensures that the window is always present on the current desktop.And ~/bin/scratch
is:The hotkey for toggling the scratchpad should be bound to:
Using class name
In this example we are going to use termite with a custom class name as our dropdown terminal. It does not have to be termite.
First create a file in your path with the following content and make it executable. In this example let's call it
scratchpad.sh
:Then add this to your bspwm config.
To toggle the window a custom rule in sxhkd is necessary. Give as parameter the custom class name.
Other
For a scratch-pad which can use any window type without pre-defined rules, see: [1]
For a more sophisticated scratchpad script that supports many terminals out of the box and has flags for doing things like optionally starting a tmuxinator/tmux session, turning any window into a scratchpad on the fly, and automatically resizing a scratchpad to fit the current monitor see tdrop-gitAUR.
Different monitor configurations for different machines
Since the
bspwmrc
is a shell script, it allows you to do things like these:Note:inetutils is required to use hostname command.
Set up a desktop where all windows are floating
Here is how to setup the desktop 3 to have only floating windows. It can be useful for GIMP or other apps with multiple windows.
Put this script somewhere in your
$PATH
and call it from .xinitrc
or similar (with a &
at the end):(source)
Popchar 7 4 – Floating Window Shows Available Font Characters 2019
Keyboard
Bspwm does not handle any keyboard input and instead provides the bspc program as its interface.
For keyboard shortcuts you will have to setup a hotkey daemon like sxhkd (sxhkd-gitAUR for the development version).
Troubleshooting
Blank screen and keybindings don't work
- Make sure sxhkd is installed.
- Make sure you are starting sxhkd (in the background as it is blocking).
- Make sure
~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc
is executable.
Cursor themes don't apply to the desktop
See Cursor themes#Change X shaped default cursor
Window box larger than the actual application
This can happen if you are using GTK3 apps and usually for dialog windows. The fix is to create or add the below to a gtk3 theme file (
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
). (source: Bspwm forum thread)
Problems with Java applications
If you have problems, like Java application Windows not resizing, or menus immediately closing after you click, see Java#Gray window, applications not resizing with WM, menus immediately closing.
Furthermore, some applications based on Java can not display any window content at all (e.g. Intellij IDEs like PyCharm, CLion, etch). A solution is to install wmname and add the following line in your
~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc
:Problems with keybindings using fish
If you use fish, you will find that you are unable to switch desktops. This is because bspc's use of the ^ character is incompatible with fish. You can fix this by explicitly telling sxhkd to use bash to execute commands:
Alternatively, the ^ character may be escaped with a backslash in your sxhkdrc file.
Performance issues using fish
sxhkd uses the shell set in the SHELL environment variable in order to execute commands. fish can have long intialisation time due to large or improperly configured config files, thus all sxhkd commands can take much longer to execute than with other shells. To fix this without changing your default SHELL you can make tell sxhkd explicitly to use bash, or another faster shell to execute commands (for example, sh):
Error messages 'Could not grab key 43 with modfield 68' on start
Either you try to use the same key twice, or you start sxhkd twice. Check bspwmrc and
~/.profile
or ~/.bash_profile
for excessive commands starting sxhkd.Firefox context menu automatically selects first option on right click
This section is being considered for removal.
Reason: Should be reported upstream as a software bug (Discuss in Talk:Bspwm#)
Add the following line to the
userChrome.css
file of your Firefox profile:The file should be located in
~/.mozilla/firefox/something.default/chrome/
(it will need to be created if you don't already have one). Also, in Firefox, you will have to go to the about:config
page and enable the option toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
; otherwise Firefox will ignore the userChrome.css file.See also
- Mailing List: bspwm at librelist.com.
#bspwm
- IRC channel at irc.freenode.net- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=149444 - Arch BBS thread
- https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm - GitHub project
- https://github.com/windelicato/dotfiles/wiki/bspwm-for-dummies - earsplit's 'bspwm for dummies'
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Unicode and Multilingual File Conversion, Font and Keyboard Utilities for Windows Computers
3-D Keyboard
3-D Keyboard provides customisable keyboard layouts for US and UK English and for several Western European languages, and works with Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 3.51 or later. A 16-bit version for Windows 3.1 is included. It works only with the ANSI character set, and allows any of the main keys to redefined by dragging characters from a character map. It can use one or both ALT keys to assign a third character to each key. A keyboard map can be displayed on-screen.
3-D Keyboard is produced by Fingertip Software, Inc. You can find more information and download a 45-day evaluation version from http://www.fingertipsoft.com/3dkbd/. Registration costs US $20.00, or you can buy a copy on disk with a printed manual for $25.00 plus shipping.
BabelMap
BabelMap is a Unicode character map for any version of Windows from Windows 2000 onwards. It includes Unicode 5.2.0, and can display characters from the supplementary planes. You can select a font and a Unicode range from drop-down lists. You can search for a hexadecimal code point, or for all or part of a character name.
Clicking characters in the grid copies them to the Edit Buffer, visible at the bottom of the window, from where they can be copied and pasted into a document. There is a function on the window pop-up menu to save the contents of the Edit Buffer to a file, with UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32 encoding.
BabelMap is produced by Andrew West. You can find more information, and download a free copy, from BabelMap (Unicode Character Map for Windows).
Character Map
Character Map is a utility that has been supplied with many versions of Windows, but only in more recent versions has it been able to show more than the basic 256 characters. Yummy ftp 1 10 2 download free. If you have one of these versions:
- Click to place an arrow in the check box for “Advanced view”
- Select “Unicode” from the Character set drop-down list
- Select “Unicode Subrange” from the Group by drop-down list
- Select a range in the small “Unicode Subrange” window
- Select the character that you require, and then click the Select and Copy buttons to copy the character to the Clipboard.
Font Properties Extension
You can find out if your Windows fonts support Unicode by using the extensions that Microsoft supplies for the Properties tab that is available when a TrueType (.TTF) font file is right-clicked in Windows Explorer. Amongst other things, these extensions provide statistics on the number of glyphs and on the Unicode ranges and Code Pages that are supported. The extensions are available from http://www.microsoft.com/typography/property/property.htm.
FrKeys
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FrKeys provides an easy way to type unusual characters in Windows. It appears as a small floating window, so it can be kept open without obscuring your main application. It displays only a few characters at a time, but multiple sets of characters can be defined (using any Unicode BMP character present in an installed font), and it is easy to switch between them. FrKeys comes with sets of accented characters for French and several other European languages. Sets of keyboard shortcuts can also be defined for each set of characters; this enables phonetic keyboards to be produced, and these are supplied for Arabic, Hebrew, Russian and some Indic languages. The first screen shot shows a set of characters that I use for typing chemical names in the Compendium of Pesticide Common Names.
FrKeys is a commercial application and costs US $24.95. More information is available from FrKeys - Typing accents in Windows made easy.
Global IME
Microsoft provides 4 global IMEs (Input Method Editors) to allow Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese or Korean text to be entered in editions of Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP that do not normally support these languages. The IMEs work with Word 2000, FrontPage 2003, Web forms in Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher, and messages in Outlook Express 4 or higher and Outlook 98, but not with FrontPage 2000. They also work with Namo WebEditor and Netscape Composer.
Using Microsoft's Global IME to fill a text box in English IE 5 with Simplified Chinese characters
The Global IMEs, and language packs containing appropriate fonts, can be downloaded from Microsoft Global Input Method Editors (IMEs) Further Enhance East Asian Text Input. There are different versions for Office XP and for earlier applications.
International Character Code Map
International Character Code Map is produced by Maedera Masahiko, and runs under 32-bit versions of Windows. It allows you to scroll through a map of the characters in a font and enlarge or copy individual characters. You can also select a series of characters into a text box before copying them to the Clipboard. There does not seem to be a way to jump to an individual character or Unicode range.
International Character Code Map appears to be freeware. It can be downloaded from http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002891/CWFILES.HTM. The Zip file contains more than one version of the program - Moziskeu.exe is the one with Unicode support.
Janko’s Keyboard Generator
Janko’s Keyboard Generator produces keyboard layouts (.kbd files) that can be used as replacements for ones already on your system. It works with Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME, and includes some support for Unicode characters. It is produced in 3 versions, with the more expensive versions having more features. Characters can be assigned (by dragging from a character map) to normal keys and also to Shift, AltGr and Shift+AltGr combinations. Some versions allow dead keys to be assigned, for producing character+diacritic combinations.
You can choose which font to use, and select a script from Arabic, Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish and Western.
Janko’s Keyboard Generator is produced by Janko Stamenović. The basic version is shareware, and registration costs US $15.00 (free for home use); the Professional version costs $59.00. There are also Enhanced and Worldwide versions. Downloads and more information are available at http://solair.eunet.yu/~janko/engdload.htm.
KbdEdit
KbdEdit allows you to edit any of the keyboard layout files supplied with Windows, or to create your own. It works with 32-bit versions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Vista, and with 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Vista. Characters can be assigned (by dragging from a character map) to normal keys and also to Shift, Control and Shift+Control combinations. Dead keys can be assigned, for producing character+diacritic combinations.
You can choose which font to use, and use the Filter button to select one or more ranges from the BMP to be included in the character map. Characters from the supplementary planes can also be assigned to keys, by dragging from another program such as Firefox or Microsoft Word.
KbdEdit allows you to re-program any key, not just the ones that are normally used for characters.
KbdEdit is produced by Ivica Nikolic, and costs €25.00 or US $30.00. More information and a restricted demo are available at KbdEdit - The Best Keyboard Layout Editor For Windows XP, 2003, Vista and x64.
Keyboard Layout Creator
Keyboard Layout Creator allows new keyboard layouts to be produced and existing ones to be modified. It works with Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and it supports Unicode characters, including those from the supplemental planes. Characters can be assigned to normal keys and also to Ctrl+key and AltGr+key, with Shift available for all combinations. Character+diacritic combinations can be assigned to single keys, and “dead” keys can be designated.
Keyboard Layout Creator is produced by Microsoft and is free of charge, but support is not available. Downloads and more information are available at Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC).
Keyboard Layout Manager
Keyboard Layout Manager allows keyboard layouts to be produced and modified. It works with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT and Windows 2000; with NT and 2000 it supports Unicode characters. It is produced in 4 versions, with the more expensive versions having more features. Characters can be assigned to normal keys and also to Shift, Ctrl, AltGr and Shift+AltGr combinations. Character+diacritic combinations can be assigned to single keys. Characters can also be assigned to the Function keys and the numeric keypad.
Keyboard Manager is produced by Milan Vidaković and Igor Milijašević; registration ranges from the Lite version at US $15.00 to the 2000 version at US $65.00. Downloads and more information are available at the Keyboard Layout Manager Web site.
Keyman
Keyman (formerly called Keyboard Manager) allows custom keyboard layouts to be produced for use with Microsoft Windows; the current version works with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista, and supports Unicode characters. Under Windows 95/98/Me, Unicode support is restricted to Microsoft Word, RichEdit, UltraEdit and a few other programs.
Keyman is produced by Tavultesoft and is available in Light, Professional and Developer versions. It can be downloaded from Tavultesoft Keyman Desktop - Tavultesoft.
ListFont
ListFont is a freeware utility for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT that lists the fonts installed on your computer and provides an exceptionally clear display of the glyphs (characters) that they contain. You can list and display the character sets within a font, restrict the list of fonts to those containing a particular character set, and change the size of the displayed characters.
ListFont is produced by Heiner Eichmann, and can be downloaded from http://heiner-eichmann.de/software/listfont/listfont.htm.
MainType
MainType is a font viewer and manager for Windows 95 and later that provides a vast amount of information about your fonts (installed and not installed). The information is divided into 5 panes, and you can choose which ones to display and how they are arranged; they can even be dragged outside the main window. The “Fonts” pane contains 16 columns, and you can choose which ones to display, in which order, and sort any column.
Clicking any character in the “Characters” pane displays it in the “Zoom” pane, from where it can be copied to another application (with or without formatting), or copied to the clipboard, or copied to the ”Sample” pane. Characters in the supplementary planes are included. You can search for characters using parts of their names.
Most of the displayed information can be printed, or exported to HTML, RTF or plain text.
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MainType is produced by HighLogic, and costs US $40. A 40-day trial version is available. It can be downloaded from Font manager and font viewer at High-Logic Software - MainType.
PopChar Win
PopChar Win is a utility that allows you to insert any Unicode BMP character into an editor or word processor, as a plain character, a formatted character or an HTML character entity reference. You can choose whether to display all of the available Unicode characters in a font (sorted by range) or only those for a particular codepage, and whether or not to close the window after picking a character. Recently-used characters are highlighted, so that you can easily find them again.
PopChar Win is produced by ergonis software and costs US $29. More information is available from PopChar - Easily type umlauts and foreign characters - a better Character Map - with Unicode categories. A free demo version with reduced functionality is available.
Private Character Editor
Private Character Editor allows you to create characters and assign them to code points in the Private Use Area (U+E000 – U+F8FF). You can either create a character from scratch, or select an existing character from any installed font and modify it. You can display any existing character as a reference. The characters that you create can be linked to all installed fonts, or to a selection of fonts. The new characters can be used in any program that supports Unicode, by selecting them via Character Map.
Private Character Editor is included with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. To start the program, click the “Start” button, select “Run…”, type “eudcedit”, and click “OK”.
PureText
PureText is a utility for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP that strips all formatting from text (including Unicode text) on the clipboard. This allows you to select text from, for example, a Web page or a Word document, and paste it into a spreadsheet or a WYSIWYG HTML editor without the formatting from the original document.
More information and a free download are available from the PureText Home Page. PureText is produced by Steve P. Miller.
Simredo Character Set
Simredo is a Unicode text editor that is written in Java and is intended for use with Windows and Linux. It includes a Character Set utility (available on the Other Functions menu) that has some cosmetic problems, but that can display the characters in any font.
Greek Extended characters from Arial Unicode MS, in Simredo under Windows 95
The < and > buttons move the display by one page (256 characters); the << and >> buttons move the display by 16 pages (4096 characters).
More information about Simredo and a free download are available from the Simredo 3.3 - Java Unicode Editor Web site.
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TrueType Explorer
TrueType Explorer is a dream come true for font fanatics. It runs under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and lists all of the information you could possibly want about any fonts on your computer (including ones that are not installed) that you drag into its window. You can choose which properties to list for the fonts, and on which property to sort the list, so (for example) you can sort the list of fonts by the number of characters they contain in the General Punctuation range. Even more information is available by selecting one particular font, including lists of characters from each supported code page and Unicode range (version 4, BMP only). It can even show you the outline and metrics for each glyph!
TrueType Explorer 4 is freeware and is produced by Kevin J. Macdonald. It can be downloaded from my Downloads page.
TTFDump
TTFDump is a Windows command line utility that parses and labels the tables and subtables that make up a TrueType font and then writes the information to a text file. It is intended for programmers and font designers.
TTFDump is available free but unsupported from Microsoft, and can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tools/tools.htm.
Unicode Font Viewer
Unicode Font Viewer runs under Windows 9x, Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000, and allows you to display the Unicode 2.1 characters from any TrueType Unicode font. An enlarged view of any character can be shown. By double-clicking characters in the grid, they are copied to the text box at the bottom of the window, from where they can be copied and pasted into other applications.
Unicode Font Viewer is freeware, and can be downloaded from Unicode Font Viewer for Windows.
Unifier
Unifier runs under Windows 9x, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and allows you to convert the encoding of plain text files (including HTML) to Unicode, including UTF-8.
Unifier costs US $15.00. More information and an evaluation version (limited to converting 30 files) can be obtained from the Melody-Soft Web site.
ViewGlyph
ViewGlyph runs under Windows 95 and later, but works best with Windows 2000 and later. It shows you the glyphs in fonts (arranged in various ways including glyph order and Unicode order), sample text, font statistics, and the cMap and Names tables.
ViewGlyph is free and can be obtained from SIL ViewGlyph – Font Viewing Program.
Visual Keyboard
Microsoft’s Visual Keyboard enhances the ability of Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT and Windows 2000 to switch keyboard layouts by adding the option to have the new keyboard layout visible in a floating window. Typing in a new language can then be accomplished either by clicking the keys in the on-screen display, or by using the on-screen display to guide you in the use of the real keyboard. Visual Keyboard works with the 2000 and 2002 (XP) versions of Microsoft Office applications, including FrontPage and Word, and also with Adobe GoLive 5, Namo WebEditor and Mozilla Composer.
Popchar 7 4 – Floating Window Shows Available Font Characters List
Microsoft’s Visual Keyboards can be used as an aid to typing in many languages
Visual Keyboard can be downloaded from the Microsoft Office Download Center.
Popchar 7 4 – Floating Window Shows Available Font Characters Names
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Created 3rd February 1999 Last updated 13th November 2009
Created 3rd February 1999 Last updated 13th November 2009