Man you sparked my interest in all of this hard, had already moved to i3-gaps and polybar, got to love this modularity. Hardest part is to give it all a consistent look, so looking forward to your next video.
Hey Niels! I couldn't agree more. I started yesterday evening working on Polybar. It is going to take me some time to figure a way to put this down as simple as possible. Polybar adds a level of complexity to the mix.
thank you very much for this tutorial series, it really helped me getting started with using i3 wm and gave me an idea on how to configure and style your own workflow, so now i can start myself and play around with these window managers
This looks a lot simpler than when I tried to do this a year ago. With time comes knowledge and familiarity. I think learning xmonad and AwesomeWM helped a bit too in the understanding of what's going on here. Great videos!
I've watched most i3 tutorials. Yours are among the very best. Have you looked into rounded corners yet? I can't live without them. :) Also, autotiling in AUR is very cool. The ArcoLinux crew jumped on it instantly. Someone had to think of it.
Loving the content, everything has worked so far, just a heads up, i3lock-color is no longer in the repository, but it is in the AUR, also the scripts for it do not seem to apply to it anymore. Other than that 10/10
just a suggestion: as you have changed your website/domain (and i suppose the information as well which were on the old website) the link which you have in video here (timestamp: 22:17) it's not relevant! Perhaps you can upload some of the contexts from your old website to your new website? BTW enjoying very much all the videos that you put on UA-cam, keep up the great work you do :)
Really nice tutorial. I have a dual monitor set up, so i'll stick with the i3lock from i3wm. The script for i3lock-color takes 2 seconds to lock both my screen :/, since they have to compute both monitor images and blur them.
I've been following your steps throughout the video, however I seem to be having two issues. The arch-update and i3lock-color doesn't seem to be working. I've installed all the required dependencies as well.
How can I turn of the transparency of picom, or configure it? Because when I watch a UA-cam Video on a second window, the video is transparent and I can see my background. I read the wiki, but did'nt understand it.
You can check that here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Picom#Opacity - 90 and 60 represent the level of opacity and the name between single quotes the class name of the program (replace with yours).
Many thanks for the video. Well I am web developer and I often need to use developer tools in chrome. However font in chrome are blurry. You can think as they are light. I don't know why it happened. Before this I was using ubuntu, In that font were fine. On website they load their own font and other settings so no issues just developer tool is issue. Can you help?
There is a big selection of fonts you can install. You should check the arch wiki and install a bunch of those. After that you'll have a better experience.
No need to copy a system file to which you have read access as root. Just copy it as normal user from the /etc/ directory and you will not have the "problem" that the copy does not belong to you.
you are using absolute paths for your config files which are located in your home. wouldn't be a better (than your best) practice to use the environment variables (for the home) or don't they work in the config file? I mean if you want to copy your .config to another user you would need manually to change the users home dir path everywhere
It would be nice if there is a video on getting the brightness and volume control keys on the keyboard setup. For me the volume buttons work but xbacklight does nothing to adjust brightness.
@@eflinux Thanks for the reply. The solution I found to this was 1. Either use the light command and package rather than xbacklight 2. Or install xbacklight from the acpi package and not xorg package. Apparently there is xorg-xbacklight and acpi-xbacklight. The second package will do the trick.
Is there a way to hide the grub loader when you start the computer? and also is there a way to make a terminal always start on workspace 1 and firefox always load on to workspace 2 when it loads from startx? Ps. I am really enjoying this series, I have learned a ton!! Thank you :)
Hi Jason! Yes, you can. For GRUB, you need to edit the grub file under /etc/default and change the TIMEOUT line to 0. As for the programs launching you can add to your config file "exec programname" and if you assigned the workspaces as in the video, they will open up at boot.
@@eflinux I managed to hide the grub loader but not sure I did this in the best way so it maybe something you wish to show us, but I can't get a terminal to autoload on $ws1 or firefox to auto load on $ws2 at startup. I'm clueless :(
Hi Jason, in your i3 config file add a line with "exec --no-startup-id firefox" and another one for your terminal (you have to put the terminal name you use there).
Hello, thanks for the videos, i have the problem under i3 when playing videos screen tearing with an intel graphic occurs. Is there a solution for this problem?
![[8e] | Polybar on i3](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cLB008-FJ5o/mqdefault.jpg)
![[8e] | Polybar on i3](/img/tr.png)
![[10] | DWM: Getting Started](/img/n.gif)
Man you sparked my interest in all of this hard, had already moved to i3-gaps and polybar, got to love this modularity. Hardest part is to give it all a consistent look, so looking forward to your next video.
Hey Niels! I couldn't agree more. I started yesterday evening working on Polybar. It is going to take me some time to figure a way to put this down as simple as possible. Polybar adds a level of complexity to the mix.
What the ... you're adding more info on how to make I3 better? You're unbelievable! You're doing more than what is needed. Good job Sir!
Glad you liked it :)
Discovering new cool little programs and things is so satisfying! Had no idea about i3blocks! Cheers Mate!
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for the great video. This by far the best i3 configuration video I have seen on youtube :)
Thank you so much!
Thank you for the great efforts to popularizing Linux and i3 with awesome results.
Exactly the right way!
Good luck!
Thanks!
0:00 intro
0:55 transparency
8:40 i3blocks bar
27:03 lock screen
31:38 transform i3 to i3gaps
I new i3 video on the same day awesome, your series has the best depth on i3 that I have watched. keep up the good work :)
Hey Daniel! Thanks a lot!
thank you very much for this tutorial series, it really helped me getting started with using i3 wm and gave me an idea on how to configure and style your own workflow, so now i can start myself and play around with these window managers
thank you Ermanno for all your tutorials... they help me a lot. love arch linux and love i3.
You're a great teacher. Keep up the great work you're doing. A lesson multi-monitor and Dunst would be awesome by you. It will be awesome.
Thanks! I'll see what I can do there :)
@@eflinux Thank you.
Fantastic series, thanks for going in depth with i3 and helping me make sense of these WMs. What's next??
Hey thanks! Polybar is coming up soon :)
This looks a lot simpler than when I tried to do this a year ago. With time comes knowledge and familiarity. I think learning xmonad and AwesomeWM helped a bit too in the understanding of what's going on here. Great videos!
good video using the gaps took some time to get use to
I've watched most i3 tutorials. Yours are among the very best. Have you looked into rounded corners yet? I can't live without them. :) Also, autotiling in AUR is very cool. The ArcoLinux crew jumped on it instantly. Someone had to think of it.
Hey thanks! I'll look into it :)
@@eflinux You're welcome. Enjoy. :)
Loving the content, everything has worked so far, just a heads up, i3lock-color is no longer in the repository, but it is in the AUR, also the scripts for it do not seem to apply to it anymore. Other than that 10/10
just a suggestion:
as you have changed your website/domain (and i suppose the information as well which were on the old website) the link which you have in video here (timestamp: 22:17) it's not relevant!
Perhaps you can upload some of the contexts from your old website to your new website?
BTW enjoying very much all the videos that you put on UA-cam, keep up the great work you do :)
Thanks! I updated the links.
If you skip the sudo in cp command you won't need the chown later.
You're right, old habits... I changed that in later videos.
awesome video brother.
Thanks!
You’re a freakin G!!! 🙏🏽
Really nice tutorial. I have a dual monitor set up, so i'll stick with the i3lock from i3wm. The script for i3lock-color takes 2 seconds to lock both my screen :/, since they have to compute both monitor images and blur them.
Thanks! I just installed i3 on my dual monitor setup as well. You might want to explore multilockscreen :)
Thank you
...::: mine of knowledge, thanks :::...
Thanks:)
I've been following your steps throughout the video, however I seem to be having two issues. The arch-update and i3lock-color doesn't seem to be working. I've installed all the required dependencies as well.
Hi René, make sure you have the correct paths for the scripts in the config file. This is the most common cause.
How can I turn of the transparency of picom, or configure it? Because when I watch a UA-cam Video on a second window, the video is transparent and I can see my background. I read the wiki, but did'nt understand it.
You can check that here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Picom#Opacity - 90 and 60 represent the level of opacity and the name between single quotes the class name of the program (replace with yours).
Important for fellow noobs:
8:40 Difference between i3status and i3blocks, and how to swap between them
Hey, I tried to add icons the same way you did but to the i3lock-color but they will not show. Any ideas?
I am not sure that works with the lock screen, I will have to try it out.
Hi, on the github page, regarding i3block-color, I can't find the script you indicated ... could you post the content?
I'm late but go to same repo you will find script inside examples folder
Many thanks for the video. Well I am web developer and I often need to use developer tools in chrome. However font in chrome are blurry. You can think as they are light. I don't know why it happened. Before this I was using ubuntu, In that font were fine. On website they load their own font and other settings so no issues just developer tool is issue. Can you help?
There is a big selection of fonts you can install. You should check the arch wiki and install a bunch of those. After that you'll have a better experience.
No need to copy a system file to which you have read access as root. Just copy it as normal user from the /etc/ directory and you will not have the "problem" that the copy does not belong to you.
I learned that in the meantime:)
you are using absolute paths for your config files which are located in your home. wouldn't be a better (than your best) practice to use the environment variables (for the home) or don't they work in the config file? I mean if you want to copy your .config to another user you would need manually to change the users home dir path everywhere
question about i3 blocks.. do the script run once at startup or in permanent intervals?
I3 , AweSome , OpenBox which is lighter?
I am tempted to say Openbox. I haven't fully tried Awesome yet, though.
It would be nice if there is a video on getting the brightness and volume control keys on the keyboard setup. For me the volume buttons work but xbacklight does nothing to adjust brightness.
Thanks for the feedback. Sorry I didn't cover that, but I believe there some resources on GitHub that you can check out.
@@eflinux Thanks for the reply.
The solution I found to this was
1. Either use the light command and package rather than xbacklight
2. Or install xbacklight from the acpi package and not xorg package. Apparently there is xorg-xbacklight and acpi-xbacklight. The second package will do the trick.
Is there a way to hide the grub loader when you start the computer? and also is there a way to make a terminal always start on workspace 1 and firefox always load on to workspace 2 when it loads from startx? Ps. I am really enjoying this series, I have learned a ton!! Thank you :)
Hi Jason! Yes, you can. For GRUB, you need to edit the grub file under /etc/default and change the TIMEOUT line to 0. As for the programs launching you can add to your config file "exec programname" and if you assigned the workspaces as in the video, they will open up at boot.
@@eflinux I managed to hide the grub loader but not sure I did this in the best way so it maybe something you wish to show us, but I can't get a terminal to autoload on $ws1 or firefox to auto load on $ws2 at startup. I'm clueless :(
Hi Jason, in your i3 config file add a line with "exec --no-startup-id firefox" and another one for your terminal (you have to put the terminal name you use there).
EF - Tech Made Simple the terminal would be called i3-sensible-terminal ?
If not other terminal is installed. Otherwise specify the name.
I3 gaps doesn't seem to be working for some reason:D just wanted to let you know, I'm trying to solve this issue:)
ik its been a year but did you find the solution coz not working in mine too, if you can please help. System: Fedora
nvm i somehow fixed it :KEKW:
Hello, thanks for the videos, i have the problem under i3 when playing videos screen tearing with an intel graphic occurs. Is there a solution for this problem?
Have you installed "picom" and have it run in your config file?
@@eflinux Thanks for the quick answer. picom was the solution !!!
Great! Glad it worked :)
@@eflinux 👍👍👍
my media controls aren't working
Did you install also-utils and added the commands to the config file?
Link down file confíg dont found
Can you try again? It's working for me now.
Hi, I have a problem. My gaps don't save..
How do you mean?
@@eflinux After I logout my gaps don't save and it returns to setting with 0 gaps and I have to set it again.
I assume you saved them in your config file?
@@eflinux no, i don't.
That is why then. If they are not saved in the config file, they won't be there when you login again.
Are you gonna do awesomewm?
Hi René, yes, I will, but I don't have an ETA yet :)
hi could you try bumblebee-status
I'll see what I can do :)
10:00 i3blocks