super n00b questions regarding i3 install

[wuxmedia]

so megusta i3 and in an attempt to ween me off of MATE, gui stuff in general, i smeared 3some onto my HDD. after being happy with the liveCD in general.
install went smooth, but contrary to the README nothing appears on the tray, no clipit, redshit nm-app anything.
this i can live without.
wifi network goes OK after i run CENI. and sticks. cool.

also no i3 status bar? seems to run according to htop, but nothing displayed, could i get conky to do the service? np either way.

this isn't a compliant as such, just i'm such a super noob, i have no handle on this.

not even sure if it's a support question, didn't expect anything till i read the README.
i will look at the i3 website.

[machinebacon]

Do you need the config from the live user? It is essentially the default i3 with an autostart. I don't have i3 on this box right now, but I can install it on the quick or you boot into the live session and check it.
i3bar does quite definitely run, it is started by i3. How about checking the resolution (xrandr/arandr/grandr) maybe it is off the visible area of the screen?

[wuxmedia]

thanks for getting back, no worries.
just confused (shock)

to clarify, there is essentially no difference between the live session and the install, as far as i can see thats all thats confusing me. 8)

as you say it i3bar does run, just not outputting what i might have expected.
i can see the workspace switcher, thats on the same 'line' is it not?
i will chuck some scrots up once i boot back into it. maybe explain myself better.

totally no rush.

[machinebacon]

here is a live session on a netbook, right lower corner the clipit/volume/nm/redshift

left lower corner workspace 1

cant really say anything atm

cat .i3/conf

the last 4 lines are the autostarts, maybe add a sleep there

Edit: tried it on another laptop, no problems there too. Can you post a scrot with htop running?

[pidsley]

(edit) this does not solve your tray problem, but since you asked about conky...

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 14#p200514

To put conky on the status bar, use this code with a simple one-line conky:

bar {
status_command conky
}

if you need help with a simple one-line conky, there's one in the scrotwm review: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 92#p199992

also see the i3 online docs (they are very good): http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html

[machinebacon]

^ That's nice and good but there should be i3's tray running, it's the i3 default and it does - but why not at wux?

[pidsley]

Don't know. I'm downloading threesome right now, will take a look later.

I posted that because he asked about conky.

[machinebacon]

Thanks. (It was more a rhetorical question ;) )

[wuxmedia]

not sure where to start.

[pidsley]

I just booted the live version, and my status bar looks the same. Give me a minute to troubleshoot some stuff.

(edit) I'm sure bacon will have more to say about this, but until he gets back, at least on my machine the i3 config file does not have the startup lines he's talking about. You can add them yourself:

Start leafpad, and open ~/.i3/config. Add these lines to the end:

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exec clipit
exec volumeicon

and whatever else you want to run at startup. Save the file, and log out/back in.

[machinebacon]

the 1 + 4 lines, for completeness sake, are:

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for_window [class="Xmessage" instance="xmessage"] floating enable

exec --no-startup-id nm-applet
exec volumeicon
exec clipit
exec gtk-redshift -l 50:50 -t 5700:5900 

thanks Pidsley

I don't know what happened - have I uploaded the wrong file? linked it to the wrong directory? I'll upload this thing again some day, wux you didn't miss much just these lines, everything else is vanilla.

Thanks everyone.

(I see this as a personal failure. The directory had two versions of the file - with and without the modification, and I uploaded the wrong one via wput. Gnah! )

[rhowaldt]

Gnah! haha :) you are allowed your 'failures' Jules, you got a whole battery of wins on your side already.

[wuxmedia]

^ agreed, i would have removed them pesky icons anyway 8)

i was more wondering about the statusbar.
but i will see if conky can be used.

thanks

[pidsley]

I was just about to write a how-to for that :) Or you can do it...

[wuxmedia]

i3status was not installed??



rebooting now to check...

@pidsley oh it seems well documented on the i3 website i dunno what JaSONs got to do with it though 8)

[pidsley]

Here you go: http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f ... 1013#p1013

[dkeg]

This happened to me before. You may need to install i3status

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sudo apt-get install i3status

Once installed you should be able to just

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MOD+SHIFT+r

and it should show. If not try a reboot. If you want to change it up, it is it

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/etc/i3status.conf

Check out our wiki for a quick i3 guide for some i3 tweakage
http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php?title=I3wm

[wuxmedia]

thanks dkeg. ended up using conky, but might retry i3status. seeing as i installed it.