If you are using MATE as a basic Linux desktop, then the file manager Caja, and you are trying to open its window via i3wm, Rofi, an alternative launcher, or the keyboard shortcuts, you will have found yourself in the bad situation of seeing nothing happen on screen. Yes, we are talking about a small, ancient and annoying bug still[…]
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Grid Tiling. Not a tiling window manager like i3
i3 is the most famous tiling window manager designed for X11 and all the Linux people met him at least once in their life. It is fully configurable and it handles dynamically tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts. But the use of i3, or of another tiling window manager, for everyday use, is not for all. It is not easy at[…]
Read morei3 and Linux. Hello again!
For jobs to be completed always and surely, a distro like Fedora or Ubuntu, a graphical environment like GNOME or Xfce, and so on. For everything else, Linux is experimentation, fun. Here then we like to give us to the distro-hopping, to try every possible graphic environment, to test every feasible change. In two words, maximum customization and pure pleasure.[…]
Read moreCreate a launcher script for Linux desktop
Using i3wm, I’m very pleased with the fact that at startup I can found all my everyday applications opened and placed on the relative workspaces. Anyway, sometimes I need different configuration (especially on the netbook) and I fit better with a manual launch of the programs. Bash, bin and nohup to make an easy starter script With nohup we can[…]
Read moreWhy doesn’t i3blocks show battery in status bar on Fedora?
Since I use i3, one of my favorite feature is the minimalism of the status bar. I found in it the same feeling of the cli, but united with the beauty of the graphical interface. i3blocks to generate amazing status line for i3bar Recently I have switched all my i3 installations to i3blocks. It allows one to easily describe[…]
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