Anyone been thinking about doing a Sway Spin?
by Philip Rhoades
People,
I couldn't find anything like this being talked about but it seems
logical and would really suit me at least! - then we wouldn't have to
install Gnome or KDE first . .
Regards,
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
2 years, 1 month
Autostarting apps in workspaces
by Philip Rhoades
People,
As I become more familiar with what works, my config continues to
evolve:
workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 1 ; exec $term ; exec copyq
workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 2 ; exec $term
workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 3 ; exec $term
workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 4 ; exec $term ; exec firefox
workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 5 ; exec $term
workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 6 ; exec $term
workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 7 ; exec qasmixer
workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 8 ; exec
/home/phr/Downloads/Telegram/Telegram
workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 9 ; exec $term
workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 10 ; exec $term
All of the above works except for #8 - Telegram keeps starting up in WS
#10 - any ideas why?
Thanks,
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
2 years, 3 months
Shouldn't there be a Hot Key for a grid rearrangement of windows?
by Philip Rhoades
People,
I have looked at the Sway and i3 cheat sheets but I can't find anything
- there are Hot Keys for rearranging windows: stacked, tabbed, toggle
split - but shouldn't there be one for a grid? ie four windows would be
displayed like:
+-----+-----+
| | |
+-----+-----+
| | |
+-----+-----+
five would be:
+---+---+---+
| | | |
+---+- -+---+
| | |
+-----+-----+
etc.
Thanks,
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
2 years, 3 months
Re: Shouldn't there be a Hot Key for a grid rearrangement of windows?
by Philip Rhoades
DKIM Test #3
On 2021-08-17 14:01, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> DKIM Test #2
>
>
> On 2021-08-17 13:16, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> Sorry for replying to my own post but I got a DKIM complaint note so I
>> am replying to see if I have fixed that problem . . it would still be
>> good to get a response re my original question though!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Phil.
>>
>>
>> On 2021-08-17 12:02, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>> People,
>>>
>>> I have looked at the Sway and i3 cheat sheets but I can't find
>>> anything - there are Hot Keys for rearranging windows: stacked,
>>> tabbed, toggle split - but shouldn't there be one for a grid? ie four
>>> windows would be displayed like:
>>>
>>> +-----+-----+
>>> | | |
>>> +-----+-----+
>>> | | |
>>> +-----+-----+
>>>
>>> five would be:
>>>
>>> +---+---+---+
>>> | | | |
>>> +---+- -+---+
>>> | | |
>>> +-----+-----+
>>>
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
2 years, 3 months
Auto starting apps in workspaces
by Philip Rhoades
People,
First thing - I have not looked at a tiling window manager since the
days of the 0.9 kernels! I have been using XFCE for a couple of decades
now but have really been hanging out for Wayland to become stable enough
for my daily WS. Recently, after upgrading to F34 I checked out W+Gnome
but Gnome drove me crazy; I tried W+KDE which restored nearly all the
functionality and configuring I had with Xorg+XFCE - but I was still not
happy - it was a little unstable and much slower to start things up . .
so I installed Sway - and although it has only been barely a week - I
love it! It is very fast and has been very stable so far. With ten
workspaces going it allows me to work the way I want to. So I will just
post here when I can't work out from the available info how to do
something - as my new environment evolves.
First Q:
I use Chrome for "standard" windows, FireFox for webmail and Brave as
the "workhorse" for everything else - I would like my config to load a
bunch of stuff whenever I go to that particular workspace . . IF they
have not been already opened . . ie NOT load all the workspaces at once
when Sway first starts - that would cause a LOT of disk thrashing.
Currently my setup is:
1 root terminals
2 phr terminals
3 Chrome with "standard" windows - normally managed with the TabFern
extension
4 FF
5 Brave - current ToDo stuff
6 Brave - off on tangents . .
7 Multimedia - mpv, audacity, qasmixer +
8 Telegram
9 Hexchat +
10 Remote terminals
I would normally open these workspaces in the order above - is there a
way to do what I want so after bootup I go to each workspace in turn and
the required apps start up automatically? (if they haven't done so
already).
Thanks!
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
2 years, 4 months