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Title: i3 GUI?
Post by: bluedragon77 on 2015-10-17, 13:11:30
How well does Otter work with the i3 GUI for Linux?
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: Frenzie on 2015-10-17, 15:45:18
i3wm is a tiling wm, correct? I imagine no better or worse than any other Qt application?
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: bluedragon77 on 2015-10-17, 15:58:12
yes, it is a tiling wm.
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: ersi on 2015-10-17, 16:17:28
I've been using Otter with i3wm for the past four months. Otter works just fine, precisely as when you resize it in a stacking window manager.
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: bluedragon77 on 2015-10-17, 16:34:36
cool. I am also writing this now from otter-on i3.
I am totally new to i3 and it has caveats. I guess it won't work until I rice it up.
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: ersi on 2015-10-17, 17:05:45
Manjaro i3 edition (http://sourceforge.net/projects/manjarolinux/files/community/i3/) has very sane defaults out of the box. In fact so much so that I replaced my preferred Openbox installation with this i3 edition. Then I installed Openbox on top of it, restored my Openbox configs and now I am using both window managers in turns as I feel like it.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVCQtoQdHlM[/video]

There's a newer design out after this video. The conky is different and dmenu has been greatly improved. 

A year ago Otter used to have a glitch under Openbox, but this was removed as soon as I brought it up. In addition to Openbox and i3wm, I have tried out Otter under Xfce, KDE, Cinnamon, and Mate. Works perfectly.
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: bluedragon77 on 2015-10-17, 20:10:22
I am using it on top of normal Ubuntu. I have installed it side by side with Unity.
I have 3 sound devices, so how do I pick the one I want and unmute it?
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: Frenzie on 2015-10-18, 08:02:40
I don't know what kind of sound control Ubuntu comes with these days, but I've been very satisfied with PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) ever since I discovered it. Much more so than with any of the more simplified controls.
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: bluedragon77 on 2015-10-18, 09:17:30
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unity-control-center sound

Does the trick.
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: Frenzie on 2015-10-18, 13:05:02
Does it reinvent the wheel or does it link to something else? pavucontrol long predates Unity. I assume it's about as old as PA itself.
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: bluedragon77 on 2015-10-18, 14:34:37
It just calls the usual GUI that unity uses for sound control.
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: Frenzie on 2015-10-18, 18:20:16
So it reinvents the wheel then. Well, I hope for their sake they could at least reuse some code from something.
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: Frenzie on 2015-10-27, 08:39:39
I split up the post about the Windows 7 classic theme here (https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?topic=1567.0).
Title: Re: i3 GUI?
Post by: Frenzie on 2016-03-02, 11:20:01
Does this help? http://www.howtogeek.com/111859/how-to-batch-rename-files-in-windows-4-ways-to-rename-multiple-files/
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