Re: [i3] memory display
On 11/16/14 12:50, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > pros/cons of that behavior :). Exactly this type of subtleties is why > i3status is memory-agnostic. You know, I understand that, but I'm not sure I agree with the stance of not showing memory. There are, I think, a few compelling (note I didn't say "good") reasons to show memory and CPU utilization: - Some people understand it well enough to make use of it. - Some people want to see it despite not understanding it. - Other tools will show it, so understanding or not it is a "missing" feature. - Some people are more constrained on having "more than enough" memory due to either finances or hardware limits. CPU utilization can be nice, IMHO, mostly for cases where I have a run-away process I wasn't aware of. Personally, I rarely use memory or CPU displays on my desktop. I'm not saying I don't periodically look at memory available, but it is infrequent, usually before doing something that might be a huge job like running "vi" on a 7GB file. Also, I'm a fairly minimal desktop user in general. On my laptop I have 10GB free RAM (ignoring buffers/cache, 911MB including them). The decision doesn't really impact me, because I don't tend to use them, but I can't say I agree with the decision. :-) Sean
Re: [i3] memory display
On 11/16/14 09:02, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > I’d argue that you should disable swap entirely, so that the graphics > application in question can detect an out of memory situation and It would be nice if it worked that way, but regretfully it does not. I don't know exactly what the situation is, but we had some servers that would have a process periodically run out of control on memory, and disabling swap made the problem worse if anything. To achieve this you probably need to tweak settings in /proc rather than just shut off swap. Sean
Re: [i3] Struggling to build i3 4.8 on centos 6.5 - but almost there
On 10/28/14 06:46, Sargrad, Dave wrote: > I am very close to building i3 4.8 on centos 6.5, and will post my procedures > once I get them to be clean. I’ve successfully built i3 4.8 in the past on > ubuntu 14.04, but am now moving to centos 6.5. Have you tried getting the Rawhide SRPM and building it? http://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/source/SRPMS/i/i3-4.8-5.fc22.src.rpm Then use "rpmbuild --rebuild i3-4.8-5.fc22.src.rpm". That's what I did to get 4.8 built on my Ubuntu system, but back-porting the dpkg instead of the SRPM. Leverage the work other's have already done. Sean
Re: [i3] Suggestion: Configuration with lua
On 10/04/14 16:08, Timo Schmiade wrote: > script i3 as it is now, you not only have to learn a programming > language, you also need to write, run and maintain your own process > communicating with i3. I'm not sure it's reasonable to require everyone who wants to try i3 to learn the bulk of a general purpose programming language just to make it easier for the, I would imagine, much less frequent case of people who want to script it. On the other hand, it does seem reasonable to allow people who want to do the scripting to learn the IPC side. Personally, if i3 had used Lua to configure it, I probably wouldn't have even given it a second look... The simple, obvious configuration format was part of the reason I selected i3. This was because I came to i3 after trying xmonad and awesome, both of which use general purpose programming languages for configuration, neither of which I am familiar with, and both of which I could barely get snippets of other people's configurations working because the sheer amount of syntax you have to know to do so. i3's configuration language isn't a drawback, it is a benefit. Sean
Re: [i3] Re-tiling a bunch of windows?
On 09/17/14 11:18, Kareem wrote: > So I guess you've heard about layout saving and restoring? I just got my system updated to the latest i3, and rebooted to get this and other updates active. It works quite well for this need, thanks! Sean
Re: [i3] Re-tiling a bunch of windows?
On 09/17/14 11:18, Kareem wrote: > So I guess you've heard about layout saving and restoring? > > http://i3wm.org/docs/layout-saving.html I hadn't, I guess it is pretty recent? Looks like I'll have to grab the Ubuntu 14.10 package, which is 4.8, and build it on my 14.04 system, but that should be doable. I'll have to give that a shot, but it looks like it might work for this. Thanks, Sean
[i3] Re-tiling a bunch of windows?
A few months ago I came back to I3 after having tried a few other things (KDE again, tried Awesome). But in the end I just really kept wanting to come back to I3. However, one thing that Awesome had that I'm really missing from I3 is an ability to re-tile a bunch of windows. In particular, I often run "cssh" which opens 15 to 30 windows, and I'm manually going in and moving them left or right to get them into a 3 or 4 different columns. It sure would be nice if there was a way to say "Reflow all my windows into 4 columns, evenly". With Awesome it is more of a stack, and you have the "primary" window, so it is easy enough to move things up and down that stack, so it isn't a big deal how it orders the windows. But in this case, I really don't care how it orders them. I will admit that I kind of missed the "primary window" idea and the ability to swap things with the primary window. But mostly what I'm doing right now is to either "full screen" the window I want to focus on, or I switch the container layout so that it becomes full height -- which means I lose other windows in that stack, but I still have other stacks I can use for viewing on the screen while in my "primary" window. Anyway, I'm wondering what the right approach would be to get this re-flowing to happen. Would it be something internal to i3, where maybe there are a few layouts you could choose from? Or is this doable from an external script? I haven't done any i3 external scripting before. Thanks, Sean
