Re: [i3] Hi people! Looking to hack into i3 a bit.

From: Michael Stapelberg <michael+i3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: i3-discuss <i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:12:52 +0100

Hi Sasha,

First of all: welcome and congratulations for the first post on
this mailing list ;-).

Excerpts from Sasha's message of Di Feb 02 21:53:34 +0100 2010:

0) I didn't BUILD the docs from source -- should I? Is there
anything in there that isn't online or in the man page?

If you are using the "next" branch: yes. If you are using a release
version: No, the documentation is the same as online.

1) Should I submit bugs (or whatever) to the TRAC site as an
anonymous user? Seems silly. Can people subscribe/join the TRAC
site?

You can. The usual way for a bugreport is to be confirmed on IRC
(because of the quick nature of IRC it is easier to ask questions)
and then submit them to the bugtracker. I am not sure about the
subscription you mentioned, but we are not happy with trac at all.
There will be some work to replace it with something better in
some weeks.

2) I haven't noticed a way of doing wallpaper (background images)
for i3. Currently, having searched around a fair bit, I'm using
`feh` but it doesn't quite do what it should. It's nice, but not
ideal for wallpaper. And `xsetroot` doesn't work at all. Currently,
if I log into i3 from KDM, I sometimes have the KDM wallpaper as my
i3 wallpaper. Blech!

I use xdm which does not touch my wallpaper. After xdm asks me for
login/password, I use xsetroot in my .xsession, which works fine for
me. Other people also use "feh" or "display" (from ImageMagick).

My take on this is that it was due to uncleared video memory, but
still the stacked-ness or something *should* have overwrote that
chunk of memory at some point.. After moving some clients around
some more, and/or changing to stacked/tabbed/default a few times,
the weird stuff was gone. I've yet to reproduce it again.

I think this is a known bug (though there seems to be no ticket for
it). The stack window is not correctly redrawn under some
circumstances. I have to look into it an a few days…

4) Is it going to be possible to move the status bar (at bottom,
where the workspaces are labeled) to the TOP of the screen? Or
maybe have a keybind to toggle it on or off?

It will be possible to turn it off in the next release, we plan to
replace it with dzen2 or a similar program.

5) Can it be possible to switch to an EMPTY workspace? Like, if I
have workspace 1 and 2 on my monitors, I would like to be able to
switch to the "3" and "4" workspaces while they are empty, and
start filling them up from empty. Perhaps if Xinerama is enabled,
this switching action could either go in pairs, or one at a time?
Poor description I think, but I have been awake for a long time
fiddling with my i3 :-)

Ehm, sure, just switch to it? For the Xinerama part: it is a design
decision that workspace switches do *not* happen in pairs for
xinerama.

Best regards,
Michael

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- [i3] Hi people! Looking to hack into i3 a bit.
  - From: Sasha

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