How To Make Your Tiling Window Manager Look Amazing DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Riseabove
Really would have enjoyed watching even more of this. Qtile is a non starter since I can never find it in any repository - not into compiling it. I do have Manjaro with i3wm with gaps installed on a small NUC. I keep going back to it and play with it because I feel it looks so darn good but is such a starch contrast going from the fluid-ness of floating windows to the rigid boxes of a TWM.
I have distro hopped so many times and always find something I don't like or find some bug that makes me walk away. I used to like Ubuntu until the forced Snaps. I used to use POP!OS until its latest release became a memory hog by adding their rendition of a TWM mixed with Gnome 3. I always liked Gnome 3 because of the keybindings. I ended up going back to Linux Mint and adding a bunch of keybindings, moving the panel bar to the top, changing their menu to nothing but a search bar (like a rofi), and removed the grouped window list because I have Expose so there's no need for it. I guess you could call it a TWM/DE hybrid. I really like it but something keeps me going back to i3.
I have just about fully configured my i3 and with polybar because polybar > i3bar. I really do move around quickly on it and I love the fact it only uses 281MB on bootup compared to using a DE - (Linux Mint: 680MB, POP!OS 19: 800MB POP!OS 20: 1.2GB). Right now the only issue I am working thru is figuring out dual monitors on i3. When I have a second monitor connected it becomes workspace 2 or 3 or something. Trying to get it to do 1 2 3 4 on first monitor and 5 6 7 8 on second monitor but haven't figured that out yet. Going to a TWM, is a lot more work, preparation, and studying to get things the way you want but can be very satisfying too. Enjoy!
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Really would have enjoyed watching even more of this. Qtile is a non starter since I can never find it in any repository - not into compiling it. I do have Manjaro with i3wm with gaps installed on a small NUC. I keep going back to it and play with it because I feel it looks so darn good but is such a starch contrast going from the fluid-ness of floating windows to the rigid boxes of a TWM.
I have distro hopped so many times and always find something I don't like or find some bug that makes me walk away. I used to like Ubuntu until the forced Snaps. I used to use POP!OS until its latest release became a memory hog by adding their rendition of a TWM mixed with Gnome 3. I always liked Gnome 3 because of the keybindings. I ended up going back to Linux Mint and adding a bunch of keybindings, moving the panel bar to the top, changing their menu to nothing but a search bar (like a rofi), and removed the grouped window list because I have Expose so there's no need for it. I guess you could call it a TWM/DE hybrid. I really like it but something keeps me going back to i3.
I have just about fully configured my i3 and with polybar because polybar > i3bar. I really do move around quickly on it and I love the fact it only uses 281MB on bootup compared to using a DE - (Linux Mint: 680MB, POP!OS 19: 800MB POP!OS 20: 1.2GB). Right now the only issue I am working thru is figuring out dual monitors on i3. When I have a second monitor connected it becomes workspace 2 or 3 or something. Trying to get it to do 1 2 3 4 on first monitor and 5 6 7 8 on second monitor but haven't figured that out yet. Going to a TWM, is a lot more work, preparation, and studying to get things the way you want but can be very satisfying too. Enjoy!
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thenext
Folks who can't live outside their beloved terminals and terminal apps are welcome to that, but I run i3 as my daily driver because DEs compete for screen space, while TWMs cooperate in the available space, and i3 does everything I require of a TWM. It's both an ergonomic and philosophical decision. Competition separates good and evil, so DEs immediately are on my shit list, and I primarily do research with my computer, so I prefer to see what I'm looking at without obstruction because I'm a visual learner.
Side note: Einstein's theory of relativity has been 100% proved incorrect. This is a plasma universe, and as the earth's magnetosphere weakens, we become increasingly susceptible to solar eruptions, which when earth-facing and on the order of an X-class flare will bring down the grid and the internet and knock us back into the stone age. Not if but when. Research that while you still can.
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Folks who can't live outside their beloved terminals and terminal apps are welcome to that, but I run i3 as my daily driver because DEs compete for screen space, while TWMs cooperate in the available space, and i3 does everything I require of a TWM. It's both an ergonomic and philosophical decision. Competition separates good and evil, so DEs immediately are on my shit list, and I primarily do research with my computer, so I prefer to see what I'm looking at without obstruction because I'm a visual learner.
Side note: Einstein's theory of relativity has been 100% proved incorrect. This is a plasma universe, and as the earth's magnetosphere weakens, we become increasingly susceptible to solar eruptions, which when earth-facing and on the order of an X-class flare will bring down the grid and the internet and knock us back into the stone age. Not if but when. Research that while you still can.
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phalcon23
Ideas for a video... for us VM users.... I like setting up all my computers with so of the same apps, and such, settings and so forth. I like fish over bash etc....
Is there a way to synchronize some of this between computers when you install, and or update preferences?
I'm getting fast at doing everything I want, but seems like there has to be a better way to automate some of this.
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Ideas for a video... for us VM users.... I like setting up all my computers with so of the same apps, and such, settings and so forth. I like fish over bash etc....
Is there a way to synchronize some of this between computers when you install, and or update preferences?
I'm getting fast at doing everything I want, but seems like there has to be a better way to automate some of this.
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Tice
I just started hacking on qtile this week. Using arch I just can-t figure out fonts. In the bar I want a battery icon but I can-t find any single fonts that have these special unicode icons. The nerd font pack is 2gb and it doesn-t give me the icon I want. Which fonts (aside from my robotomono for terminals etc) do you recommend for good unicode characters?
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I just started hacking on qtile this week. Using arch I just can-t figure out fonts. In the bar I want a battery icon but I can-t find any single fonts that have these special unicode icons. The nerd font pack is 2gb and it doesn-t give me the icon I want. Which fonts (aside from my robotomono for terminals etc) do you recommend for good unicode characters?
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Alpaca
what tiling window manager would you recommend me if I wanted to run programs in window mode but not want the bloat of xfce. Some people have told me AWESOME is good for this. I actually envy how debloated you guys are but I can't live without my clicks when I enter lazy mode. Some times you just want to do everything with your mouse.
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what tiling window manager would you recommend me if I wanted to run programs in window mode but not want the bloat of xfce. Some people have told me AWESOME is good for this. I actually envy how debloated you guys are but I can't live without my clicks when I enter lazy mode. Some times you just want to do everything with your mouse.
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JR
DT id' love to have some up to date newer. Arco Awesome Tutorials. i recently moved to arco to force myself to learn more linux and because i love that you can preinstall anything and when i learned what the TWM actually is. it's a desktop and i want to learn how to customize and find some things to customize my own.
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DT id' love to have some up to date newer. Arco Awesome Tutorials. i recently moved to arco to force myself to learn more linux and because i love that you can preinstall anything and when i learned what the TWM actually is. it's a desktop and i want to learn how to customize and find some things to customize my own.
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Drishal
Whish is the best power manager for WMs?(ie to control brightness, lid actions ,battery details etc and should have hybrid sleep as well) bcz that's the only thing that stops me from switching to WMs(note that xfce4 one has a weird memory leak)
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Whish is the best power manager for WMs?(ie to control brightness, lid actions ,battery details etc and should have hybrid sleep as well) bcz that's the only thing that stops me from switching to WMs(note that xfce4 one has a weird memory leak)
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Andre
Hey, in the polybar settings there is the possibility of a vertical gradient, but there is no horizontal one like in tint2, is it really possible?
Does everyone have the same problem under Waylan status bar?
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Hey, in the polybar settings there is the possibility of a vertical gradient, but there is no horizontal one like in tint2, is it really possible?
Does everyone have the same problem under Waylan status bar?
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16bit
Something seems wrong with your terminal. Every time you maximize it, vim is very small on the top left side of the terminal it take some time to refresh it seems. Anyway, great video and I love the wallpapers.
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Something seems wrong with your terminal. Every time you maximize it, vim is very small on the top left side of the terminal it take some time to refresh it seems. Anyway, great video and I love the wallpapers.
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Dejan
Hey DT! Is there any big difference between i3wm and qtile? I am on i3 for almost two years and i don't really like changes. So if qtile is better for a mile long then i guess i will start thinking about it.
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Hey DT! Is there any big difference between i3wm and qtile? I am on i3 for almost two years and i don't really like changes. So if qtile is better for a mile long then i guess i will start thinking about it.
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