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…
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How to manage wi-fi connections under i3wm
I love i3wm, it’s a quick, lightweight and very good looking environment. The beauty of a windows manager like i3 need a must learning curve to be appreciated. Many things that are very intuitive in DE like GNOME, KDE or Unity (r.i.p.… sigh), in the i3wm could be difficult for the new user. But many…
Brightness control doesn’t work in i3wm. Due to xbacklight
I’m very pleased with i3wm, but day by day I need to adjust something. At this time, on my new laptop the brightness hardware keys don’t work as expected. The issue on the Lenovo Thinkpad with Fedora 26 is the same on the Acer ES1-111 with Ubuntu 17.04. At the bottom of i3wm, we found…