noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

[noo_b_nomnoms]

It's not giving any output.

[machinebacon]

That's really interesting. It means that it is loaded and running but not displayed in the statusbar -- I have to pass this one, seems to be an i3-specific issue, and tbh I rarely use i3. If you open "alsamixer" in a terminal, you can adjust the volume levels, right?

[noo_b_nomnoms]

oh, yeah! That has been my goto setup. Alt-v mocp top alsamixer bottom. It works well :) I was more or less just interested in seeing an icon down there amongst all that text :)

[machinebacon]

I really don't understand it, it should be there in the right lower corner, right of the clock, like for example here: http://www.linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.p ... 054#p38054

Well, wait until one of the i3-cracks chime in... I'm seriously confused...

[simgin]

Just a thought, never used that bar or I3 either, but it looks like an awful lot of things/text going on there.
Maybe there simply is not enough space for the volume? There must be a character limit somehow. Maybe comment out or remove some of the things you do not need, and see if the volume icon suddenly pops up?

cheerio
simon

[noo_b_nomnoms]

Look at my bar compared to Kitty Nova's, though. I may not have enough real estate at the bottom of the screen after all the system info, so the systray is getting squeezed out? I hate statements that turn into questions, lols :))
But, you have to admit there's a lot of system info wown there.
^And great minds think alike :) ^

[noo_b_nomnoms]

Would there be a way to comment out the Ethernet and IPv6 and maybe the DHCP indicator without messing up the wireless info?

[machinebacon]

@font size: Good idea, set the font a tiny bit smaller (edit ~/.i3/config and change the Pango font size to something around 8, or if you use xft fonts, set it to 9 or so)

@ethernet and stuff: edit ~/.i3status.conf and put a # in front of the item you dont want (on top of the file), example

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#order += "ipv6"
order += "disk /"
#order += "run_watch DHCP"
#order += "run_watch VPN"
#order += "wireless _first_"
#order += "ethernet _first_"
#order += "battery 0"
order += "load"
order += "tztime local"

I just installed i3 on the quick and volumeicon actually does work, so it's a config thingy...

[noo_b_nomnoms]

Dude! That looks so cool! My next thing to figure out is how to get that whol e purple rain color theme going on here! With the background! I tried xsetroot with no results for the background. But let me just try to get that icon!

[machinebacon]

sidebar:
xsetroot can only set a color or a pattern, but if you want a real wallpaper (a photo, full-screen), you would use something like:

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hsetroot -fill /path/to/wallpaper.png &

in your ~/.xinitrc and comment (put # in front of) the xsetroot line. Check your .xinitrc, there should be something already ;)

[noo_b_nomnoms]

It appears I never had a ~/.i3status.conf.
Could this be a problem? Maybe I should have copied one to my home directory?

[machinebacon]

^ shouldn't be a problem to fix it:

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cp /etc/i3status.conf ~/.i3status.conf

After this, edit the ~/.i3status.conf file, and restart i3.

[noo_b_nomnoms]

Aye, Captain! Consider it done!
We have changed the i3bar, but still no volumeicon. I tried reloading it from the commandline. Let me try a reboot.

[noo_b_nomnoms]

still no volumeicon after complete reboot. I will nano the ~/.config/i3/config file and just make sure nothing is down around the i3bar lines that shouldn't be there.

[noo_b_nomnoms]

I think the ~/.xinitrc looks pretty clean. It doesn't look like there is anything there that would make it ignore?

[machinebacon]

Just to make sure:

the path for i3's configuration is:
~/.i3/config

and the statusbar is
~/.i3status.conf

In your ~/.xinitrc remove the line:
sleep 3s && exec x-terminal-emulator -geometry 85x30 -e emacspeak -nw &

[noo_b_nomnoms]

Done. And rebooted.

[machinebacon]

*scratches head*

Is this an external monitor? Ah, easier, please show me your

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xrandr

[noo_b_nomnoms]

You may be on to something. I've been wondering if the monitor could have something to do with something.

[machinebacon]

Ahummmm! So you are now using the VGA-1 ...

So let's edit ~/.i3/config - down at the bottom you find the bar section (no beer there):

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bar {
output VGA-1
status_command i3status
}

bar {
output LVDS-1
status_command i3status
}

This will now put the bar on both screens. Probably it makes the icon appear now on the external monitor, too.