i3

[machinebacon]

nice :) homework for wux: pipe ICY-META into i3's bar ,)

[wuxmedia]

heh, you mind reader you, I did think about that.
notifications would be nice too, in the bar.

[dkeg]

wux, one of your better setups. Nice!

good luck with getting it into i3bar. I'd say just use bar, but I don't remember that i3 has the ability to pad to leave space for non-conky/i3bar.

[bones]

wux, looks good to me.

[machinebacon]

let us know if you get it to work with dunst or so, i've just done it for conky, though a bit shakey.

[wuxmedia]

hmm dunst might be a bit tricky yet.
only took all day and is a bit shaky also:

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mpg123  -b 2048 http://air.radiolla.com/equalyza192k 2>&1 | grep --line-buffered -Po "'.*?'" > ~/icy.txt

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#!/bin/sh
# shell script to prepend i3status with more stuff

 i3status | while :
  do
  read line
  echo "`tail -n1 ~/icy.txt` | $line" || exit 1
 done

then

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status_command ~/script.sh

in .i3/config

forgot, also need to edit ~/.i3status.conf too

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 output_format = none

Otherwise it looks silly.

Could do with a nicer looking and method of starting mpg123, preferably with a choice of stations.
Not too bothered as i only really listen to 2 stations...
can't work out why the '>' redirect seems to append to the file. thats why there is a tail -n1 to display - the bar only pull the last one out anyway, but to be sure.
works though. 8)

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[wuxmedia]

oh for the ESMACs heads - http://www.gentei.org/~yuuji/software/mpg123el/
no idea if it'll work. four years old...

[wuxmedia]

Sort of technically a NoX scrot, but on work's Numixed i3 install, showing off Tmuxed (slob.conf) Alpine linux and a wheezy VM running, yay!
No network on the VM yet, need to steal some unused IP's - or work out NAT 8]

[dkeg]

you know wux, you have really nice i3 setups. And probably the best implemented i3status I've seen. Very nice!

[wuxmedia]

aww gee shucks, thanks dkeg 8)
well, learnt most of it from the i3master, or a least happily following in your footfalls.
The i3 config is, basically, still the same as the one supplied by you in honey 8)
I like it simple.

[Launfal]

OK, just got done transferring my workflow over to i3. Same basic setup, lots more eyecandy. Still pretty stock, but once I transferred over the colors from the palette script, life was good.

[dkeg]

cool man, keep it up

[wuxmedia]

Nice work, Launfal!
looks like a great minimal distraction workspace.
"lots more eyecandy" hehe, excellent!
Hmmm, do I feel the need for some sort of i3 colour theme script, using current .Xresources?
I normally find it needs some tweaking and personal preference as to the border colours etc.

[Launfal]

Nice work, Launfal!
looks like a great minimal distraction workspace.
"lots more eyecandy" hehe, excellent!
Hmmm, do I feel the need for some sort of i3 colour theme script, using current .Xresources?
I normally find it needs some tweaking and personal preference as to the border colours etc.

Thanks. Something to somehow convert the terminal palette to i3 would be sweet, since the palette generated by the script doesn't seem to be meant to transfer over to WM configs, since depending on the wallpaper, there are a lot of dark colors and colors that run in one family or another. Like you said, it makes it kinda hard to get the borders and window titles right. I don't know how you get around that, but it would save some trouble for people who like to change wallpapers a lot. Fortunately, that ain't me.

Since I spend a lot of time working with text, terminal apps work just fine. More keys, less mouse is a winner for me.

[wuxmedia]

true, I tend to stick to grey (2a2a2a) wallpapers these days.

[Launfal]

true, I tend to stick to grey (2a2a2a) wallpapers these days.

That gives me an idea. Take a cool wallpaper, mogrify it to grayscale, then generate a palette. Go all monochrome. I'm gonna try it and throw up another scrot when I'm done.

[Launfal]

OK, scratch my last idea, too much work for too little gain. I just grabbed another wallpaper, generated a new palette, and I'm a lot happier with this:

[rhowaldt]

@Launfal: you've discovered the biggest flaw in the Paletter-script: it just grabs the colours, nothing more :)
indeed, you either get lucky with a wallpaper where it just happens to work, or you have to manually shift things around to make it perfect for your setup. i don't think there is (or can be..?) an easier method.
the greyscale/monochrome idea sounds cool :)

[Launfal]

@Launfal: you've discovered the biggest flaw in the Paletter-script: it just grabs the colours, nothing more :)
indeed, you either get lucky with a wallpaper where it just happens to work, or you have to manually shift things around to make it perfect for your setup. i don't think there is (or can be..?) an easier method.
the greyscale/monochrome idea sounds cool :)

yeah, paletter is a neat idea, and for the most part works pretty well, but like you say, there's a lot of tinkering.

I'll go back to the monochrome idea at some point when I've got more time. The problem is that paletter only gives 8 colors for a grayscale image, so you'd have to double up somehow to make everything work. Might as well just do a grayscale palette manually. I'll come up with something.

[rhowaldt]

^ or you could look at Paletter's code and find the line that makes the magic happen and see if you can change it to use more than 8 colors?