I am very new to Qtile and am having a barrage of problems getting it to work decently. I hope some of you may be willing to lend a hand.
The first problem (which caused me to give up on Qtile on numerous occasions) is that the desktop doesn't have any background at all, meaning that the screen will be occupied with the last graphic/window which happened to be on screen last. For instance, if I open a terminal and exit, the terminal will still appear to be there even though it is gone and you cannot interact with it. If I move to a group which doens't have any open windows, it effectively looks like I did not move to a new group at all (Except from the boxes changeing in the groupbox widget). The windows from the previous group are still displayed, but you cannot interact with them (because the screen is supposed to only show the background). This caused me to abandon QTile on a few occasions, because it makes you think nothing works, everything is confusing and you cannot figure out how groups and layout works. Everything is just chaos. I had to work with QTile for a couple of hours before I started to figure out how it worked/the principle and only then did I realize that it had been trolling me all the time. So the question: How can I set a background, eg. black which will occupy any space not occupied by windows? Can this be done in the config? I don't mind not having a background, they are usually not very useful in a tiling manager. Can this be done easily or do I need to set up some sort of script which, at any group change, blanks the screen and refreshes the windows? Is it just me who have this problem? Im running Qtile from a Ubuntu Gnome 14.04, having installed using apt-get (QTile vs 0.8) and using the GDM to log in. I have a config file in .config/qtile/config.py, mostly default based on https://github.com/qtile/qtile/blob/develop/libqtile/resources/default_config.py (which is for the current version and not 0.8, don't know if that is an issue) Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
