Sway August 2021

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Anyone been thinking about doing a Sway Spin?
by Philip Rhoades 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

People, I couldn't find anything like this being talked about but it seems logical and would really suit me at least! - then we wouldn't have to install Gnome or KDE first . . Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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Autostarting apps in workspaces
by Philip Rhoades 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

People, As I become more familiar with what works, my config continues to evolve: workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 1 ; exec $term ; exec copyq workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 2 ; exec $term workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 3 ; exec $term workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 4 ; exec $term ; exec firefox workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 5 ; exec $term workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 6 ; exec $term workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 7 ; exec qasmixer workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 8 ; exec /home/phr/Downloads/Telegram/Telegram workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 9 ; exec $term workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 10 ; exec $term All of the above works except for #8 - Telegram keeps starting up in WS #10 - any ideas why? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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Shouldn't there be a Hot Key for a grid rearrangement of windows?
by Philip Rhoades 18 Aug '21

18 Aug '21

People, I have looked at the Sway and i3 cheat sheets but I can't find anything - there are Hot Keys for rearranging windows: stacked, tabbed, toggle split - but shouldn't there be one for a grid? ie four windows would be displayed like: +-----+-----+ | | | +-----+-----+ | | | +-----+-----+ five would be: +---+---+---+ | | | | +---+- -+---+ | | | +-----+-----+ etc. Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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Re: Shouldn't there be a Hot Key for a grid rearrangement of windows?
by Philip Rhoades 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

DKIM Test #3 On 2021-08-17 14:01, Philip Rhoades wrote: > DKIM Test #2 > > > On 2021-08-17 13:16, Philip Rhoades wrote: >> People, >> >> Sorry for replying to my own post but I got a DKIM complaint note so I >> am replying to see if I have fixed that problem . . it would still be >> good to get a response re my original question though! >> >> Thanks, >> >> Phil. >> >> >> On 2021-08-17 12:02, Philip Rhoades wrote: >>> People, >>> >>> I have looked at the Sway and i3 cheat sheets but I can't find >>> anything - there are Hot Keys for rearranging windows: stacked, >>> tabbed, toggle split - but shouldn't there be one for a grid? ie four >>> windows would be displayed like: >>> >>> +-----+-----+ >>> | | | >>> +-----+-----+ >>> | | | >>> +-----+-----+ >>> >>> five would be: >>> >>> +---+---+---+ >>> | | | | >>> +---+- -+---+ >>> | | | >>> +-----+-----+ >>> >>> etc. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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Auto starting apps in workspaces
by Philip Rhoades 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

People, First thing - I have not looked at a tiling window manager since the days of the 0.9 kernels! I have been using XFCE for a couple of decades now but have really been hanging out for Wayland to become stable enough for my daily WS. Recently, after upgrading to F34 I checked out W+Gnome but Gnome drove me crazy; I tried W+KDE which restored nearly all the functionality and configuring I had with Xorg+XFCE - but I was still not happy - it was a little unstable and much slower to start things up . . so I installed Sway - and although it has only been barely a week - I love it! It is very fast and has been very stable so far. With ten workspaces going it allows me to work the way I want to. So I will just post here when I can't work out from the available info how to do something - as my new environment evolves. First Q: I use Chrome for "standard" windows, FireFox for webmail and Brave as the "workhorse" for everything else - I would like my config to load a bunch of stuff whenever I go to that particular workspace . . IF they have not been already opened . . ie NOT load all the workspaces at once when Sway first starts - that would cause a LOT of disk thrashing. Currently my setup is: 1 root terminals 2 phr terminals 3 Chrome with "standard" windows - normally managed with the TabFern extension 4 FF 5 Brave - current ToDo stuff 6 Brave - off on tangents . . 7 Multimedia - mpv, audacity, qasmixer + 8 Telegram 9 Hexchat + 10 Remote terminals I would normally open these workspaces in the order above - is there a way to do what I want so after bootup I go to each workspace in turn and the required apps start up automatically? (if they haven't done so already). Thanks! Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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