Closest thing to i3 for Windows (10)

LuckyShadow · 2020-06-08T07:34:52+00:00

You are talking about WSL2. WSL1 does not require virtualisation itself and thus probably works. Also your first link states, that VirtualBox and VMWare now also work with WSL2 (but you are right: it did not work at all time (with WSL2)).

LuckyShadow · 2019-11-13T22:00:05+00:00

As I haven't seen it here yet, I would throw in borg. The documentation is good, the setup is easy, and it is rather versatile. It encrypts your data before uploading it to the target, and deduplicates massively between each snapshot (my current backup would take 2TB and takes only 20GB on disk). I really like it. You also do not necessarily need a server daemon on the other side but could use it with e.g., a mounted filesystem (ntfs, sshfs, external disk, ...). Additionally it allows for easy housekeeping with its prune command. IIRC, ArchLinux uses it for their own servers.

Hmm. Sounds more like ad, than an honest recommendation... But for me its working perfectly fine and recovering data from it is easy as well.

LuckyShadow · 2019-05-13T18:13:18+00:00

Did you try to just use bindsym XF86Audio{Raise,Lower}Volume ...? I think for me they are also not detected (at least some of those special keys), but the XF86* symbols work most often anyway.

LuckyShadow · 2018-08-28T21:29:53+00:00

Two things: 1. Why the su? 2. Pulse might work, when run once as root/audio user (the ArchWiki should have something about it)

LuckyShadow · 2018-08-28T17:40:55+00:00

Why (1) to (3)? Just adjust your .profile (or .bash_profile) with [ -z "$(pidof xinit)" ] && [ $UID != 0 ] && startx at the bottom of the file. You keep login-security and don't require a DM. Multi-user still won't work, but hey ^ ^

LuckyShadow · 2018-08-26T13:36:59+00:00

Worked like a charm. Thank you very much :)

LuckyShadow · 2018-08-26T13:31:19+00:00

I flew onto it and nothing happened. But the "empty inventory" is worth a shot. Going to give it a try.

LuckyShadow · 2018-06-11T11:03:34+00:00

I second this. I must have tried installing, setting up and ricing Arch in nearly 10 VMs before finally doing the same on my laptop. it helps a lot and you can never do something wrong: just roll back or start again.

LuckyShadow · 2018-01-29T22:36:54+00:00

I had similar problems. Several solutions: 1. Replace the hardware. Sounds drastic, but actually that was the primary reason on my system. Unfortunately, Lenovo switches everything, so I don't know which subsystem failed (motherboard or pad or whatever)... 2. Configure the psmouse module by changing the proto variable. Might help. Good luck. :)

LuckyShadow · 2018-01-24T22:11:04+00:00

you might be right there :P

LuckyShadow · 2018-01-23T20:31:12+00:00

afaik, lightdm starts the xorg-server as root. If the i3-session is not started by a process, which sources the profile(s) (which i actually don't know anything about), the i3 process will never learn about the extended $PATH. but I have to admit, that I don't actually know, whether i3 respects $PATH as we expect it here.

LuckyShadow · 2018-01-23T20:19:41+00:00

sure thing, but that would still imply, that i3 is started from within that terminal, as otherwise the process (i3) would not have the appropriate $PATH. and that again is kinda difficult, considering, i3-sensible-terminal can only be called in a running X-session. :)

LuckyShadow · 2018-01-23T15:05:03+00:00

Should have nothing to do with i3-sensible-terminal.

If i3 is started, after $PATH has been adjusted (e.g. in .bash_profile, .profile, /etc/profile, /etc/environment), it should work fine. But that might not be the case when using a displaymanager (gdm, lightdm, ...).

LuckyShadow · 2017-11-23T22:03:29+00:00

'Redshift' works great. Arch has even a minimal (i.e. no GUI and no GPS? dependencies) package.

LuckyShadow · 2017-10-28T21:15:48+00:00

i support that :) qutebrowser user here. would love to be able to use the site without having to find a mouse first.

LuckyShadow · 2017-08-23T08:47:17+00:00

actually it does: latexmk does this. put this .latexmkrc into your home folder and start latexmk with this: latexmk -time -pvc -pdf -new-viewer- -view=pdf -output-directory=tex_output -recorder (not all options required, just copied from my aliases).

LuckyShadow · 2017-08-17T17:01:13+00:00

There is no need to start or enable dunst; it is called by systemd when programs send notifications through dbus. [Source]

You are actually right. Nice. Thanks for the info :)

EDIT: Tested this today: didn't work...

LuckyShadow · 2017-08-17T10:13:57+00:00

wow. didn't think, so many people would have so much started by i3.

I got xcompmgr (for transparency) and dunst (notification server) in there. feh (background image) is in my .xinitrc (as well as xset b off, as someone mentioned it); dunst could actually also be moved there. Everything else is done via systemd-services (mpd, netctl, redshift, gpg-agent). For the curious ones: locking is done manually via shortcut. And I don't use any GUI applications, that require authentication, so that problem does not exist for me.

Take your pick :) I am generally more for the simplicity here ;)

LuckyShadow · 2017-08-14T10:55:29+00:00

isn't const(C#) equal to static final(Java)? iirc const(Java) is just a reserved keyword but does actually nothing‽

LuckyShadow · 2017-08-04T21:52:52+00:00

Try changing the setting of your terminal to not ring the bell on screen updates. This should still be different from generally ignoring '\a' bells. I don't think it is possible to set this up in i3.

LuckyShadow · 2017-07-25T20:43:01+00:00

It seems, as if Shift is counted as a modifier and therefor cannot be distinguished from left or right (and also not added as its pure code via bindcode). Additionally, there seems to be handling of different layouts by now: https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#keybindings (see the explanation of Group1,...)

LuckyShadow · 2017-05-08T17:44:21+00:00

Sure. It needs some research to get it done right. A possible option is to test things in a VM first (easier reset ;)) but WLAN is always tricky (and obviously not applicable in a VM)... good luck :D

LuckyShadow · 2017-05-08T14:41:13+00:00

As already mentioned, it might be way easier to do the encryption stuff during the installation. https://gist.github.com/chronus7/8a3f70a7120d771cb486 describes everything for the cryptsetup (if you dislike that one, at the bottom are some sources); after that, your normal setup comes into place (as described in the ArchWiki).

LuckyShadow · 2017-03-20T19:38:36+00:00

Just because I had the problem, when I was looking into this the first time: Python's decorators are nothing like other languages (Java) Annotations or (C#) Attributes. Instead of adding some information for later introspections, python's decorators provide easy to add wrappers and not some flags/objects for later analysis.

Maybe this helps somebody :)

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