bspwm is a tiling window manager. Without configuration it does absolutely nothing, except showing a black screen. bspwm itself has no support for keybindings. It is controlled with the client program bspc.

You may want to run a seperate hotkey daemon to implement keybindings. Most of the time this is the program sxhkd.

Initially you have to install the default configuration in your home config directory

$ install -Dm755 /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/bspwmrc ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc
$ install -Dm644 /usr/share/doc/bspwm/examples/sxhkdrc ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc

On: Artix Linux

Because bspwm will most certainly run together with a hotkey daemon, we list bspwm and sxhks altogether-