Re: [i3] Natural sizing of windows

2013-04-23 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 7 Apr, e...@thyrsus.com wrote: > practical problem is that I normally want both my terminal emulators > and my Emacs windows to have a fixed 80-column width (unless I > explicitly resize them), in order for the text displays to look > natural. Since using i3, I've mostly got used to having term

Re: [i3] RFC: i3-dmenu-desktop

2012-12-10 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Michael Stapelberg wrote: > I have written a script which extracts the “Name” key from .desktop > files, asks you to make a choice by starting dmenu, then runs the chosen > application via i3. I do the same from a somewhat more rudimentary zsh script. I just have one line of sed to stuff names and

Re: [i3] firefox stealing focus on startup

2012-10-04 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Michael Stapelberg wrote: > It should only be able to grab focus when it’s on a visible > workspace. If it happens when firefox is invisible, that’s not with i3’s > help, so nothing we can do about it. I've got a two monitor setup and assign Firefox to start on one of them. So it is often on a vis

[i3] firefox stealing focus on startup

2012-10-04 Thread Oliver Kiddle
When starting up, firefox likes to grab focus once it has started. As it can take more than a couple of seconds to start and I have it assigned to a particular workspace, this can be quite annoying. I don't see a need for anything to grab focus ever. Is there any way to have such focus grabbing hin

[i3] building 4.3 on RHEL 6

2012-09-19 Thread Oliver Kiddle
introduced in commit e53405c2 and it seemed fairly safe to apply that whole change in reverse. Oliver From 7539a4b90b0d2f1fe585f94461f9e9848f8162c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Kiddle Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 04:01:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] remove superfluous ev.h include statements

Re: [i3] creating new containers

2012-03-28 Thread Oliver Kiddle
One thing I notice is that if I start an xterm in an empty workspace and then press Mod-A followed by Mod-W repeatedly it is somehow creating more containers at the top of the tree. Once there are about 20, the whole thing hangs so there must be a bug in this somewhere even if it is intended behavi

[i3] creating new containers

2012-03-22 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Here are some thoughts from my initial experiences with i3. In general my problem with tiling window managers is that windows don't stay where I left them: close a window and everything gets resized to gobble up the space, or try to move one window and everything else gets messed up in the process