Switching to i3 - Day One DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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1wsx10
im surprised you didn't mention resizing. i personally found that to be a real pain - could never remember which way it would move the border (since the controls are tied to changing size instead)
i3wm is my first tiling wm, so maybe i haven't gotten used to it from others - but i found a much better way.
instead of -grow width- and -shrink width- on h and l, you use -grow left- and -grow right-, then add another binding for -shrink left- and -shrink right-
it does require more keys, and the 'grow right' wont work for a window at the right of the screen - but i just add shift for the shrinking versions.
i found this method to be much more intuitive. since i already think of the h key moving something to the left, this lets the h key move the border to the left in all situations
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im surprised you didn't mention resizing. i personally found that to be a real pain - could never remember which way it would move the border (since the controls are tied to changing size instead)
i3wm is my first tiling wm, so maybe i haven't gotten used to it from others - but i found a much better way.
instead of -grow width- and -shrink width- on h and l, you use -grow left- and -grow right-, then add another binding for -shrink left- and -shrink right-
it does require more keys, and the 'grow right' wont work for a window at the right of the screen - but i just add shift for the shrinking versions.
i found this method to be much more intuitive. since i already think of the h key moving something to the left, this lets the h key move the border to the left in all situations
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Mr
kind of ironic to see every person I've seen made a video on how tiling wm are great, look at their keyboard because of those horrible shortcuts by dozen. Is it me, or is it not that much of a productivity gain than people say it is? I feel like I can do the same (tiling to a reasonable level, ie. less than 4 windows) thing on any other good DEs. And without having to look down at my keyboard every time I want to do something.
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kind of ironic to see every person I've seen made a video on how tiling wm are great, look at their keyboard because of those horrible shortcuts by dozen. Is it me, or is it not that much of a productivity gain than people say it is? I feel like I can do the same (tiling to a reasonable level, ie. less than 4 windows) thing on any other good DEs. And without having to look down at my keyboard every time I want to do something.
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Daniel
Please consider using i3blocks as a replacement for i3status. It lets you continue using i3bar, but with better configuration for the status section. You can configure your own interval and color for each block, and setup custom commands for them. I'm also giving i3 a solid try this year, and I found i3status to be very lacking in configuration.
Edit: Just realizing I'm a year late with the i3 tip.
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Please consider using i3blocks as a replacement for i3status. It lets you continue using i3bar, but with better configuration for the status section. You can configure your own interval and color for each block, and setup custom commands for them. I'm also giving i3 a solid try this year, and I found i3status to be very lacking in configuration.
Edit: Just realizing I'm a year late with the i3 tip.
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MeCrumbly429
I-d like you to do a video on E20 Enlightenment. I know it-s not a real window manager and it-s more of a DE, but I personally found using it to be a pleasant experience. Just make sure to change the default theme IMMEDIATELY (that eye-candy metallic them isn-t for everyone.
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I-d like you to do a video on E20 Enlightenment. I know it-s not a real window manager and it-s more of a DE, but I personally found using it to be a pleasant experience. Just make sure to change the default theme IMMEDIATELY (that eye-candy metallic them isn-t for everyone.
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GafftheHorse
Been using i3 solidly for a year or two.
Doing complex layouts and keeping them is a pain - i3 really doesn't do this at all well, even using i3-layout-manager.
But, mostly I use full screen or 2 windows on a screen side-by-side, not much more, so no real need.
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Been using i3 solidly for a year or two.
Doing complex layouts and keeping them is a pain - i3 really doesn't do this at all well, even using i3-layout-manager.
But, mostly I use full screen or 2 windows on a screen side-by-side, not much more, so no real need.
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ArSaCode
Maybe someone can help me out with this one.
For one reason or another: ardour does not show up when I log in using i3.
If I log in with lubuntu, ardour is right there in the desktop but if I log in with i3 and mod+d: It's not there.
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Maybe someone can help me out with this one.
For one reason or another: ardour does not show up when I log in using i3.
If I log in with lubuntu, ardour is right there in the desktop but if I log in with i3 and mod+d: It's not there.
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Dirty
I had that same issue with workspaces and multiple monitors, I tried writing a script to fix it which kind of worked but then if you're focused on the wrong monitor and you switch it messes everything up. It became a major annoyance.
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I had that same issue with workspaces and multiple monitors, I tried writing a script to fix it which kind of worked but then if you're focused on the wrong monitor and you switch it messes everything up. It became a major annoyance.
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Panacea
I just installed i3 on my system so I can play with it. They made a lot of changes to the config file. Keybindings are now in a separate file called config. keycodes. One thing they haven't changed. h j k l. It's still j k l; .: )
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I just installed i3 on my system so I can play with it. They made a lot of changes to the config file. Keybindings are now in a separate file called config. keycodes. One thing they haven't changed. h j k l. It's still j k l; .: )
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Markus
hjkl never made sense to me because I have to move my hand one position to the left. And because I don't use qwerty or something similar hjkl doesn't work for me at all. I have cursor keys on a layer wich makes more sense to me
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hjkl never made sense to me because I have to move my hand one position to the left. And because I don't use qwerty or something similar hjkl doesn't work for me at all. I have cursor keys on a layer wich makes more sense to me
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Michael
Great content for those looking to dive into i3. For the record, the i3 bar does have support for fonts and colors via the i3status utility. It-s actually the output from this utility being displayed on the i3bar.
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Great content for those looking to dive into i3. For the record, the i3 bar does have support for fonts and colors via the i3status utility. It-s actually the output from this utility being displayed on the i3bar.
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