Some Interesting Built in Features in Qtile

[@AnuragSaikia-qi2lb]

Qtile is so easy to hack as well... Making custom functions with qtile is very flexible and powerful

[@krzysztofwaleska]

Im using qtile for 2 years supplemented with small amount of my code (tough with any update), but that layout was mysterious. Thank you for explanations. It is wasting desktop space, but has some advantages. I will try.

[@garygordonhiggs]

Try the wallpaper widget and the weather widget........both very cool and easy to set up.

[@zarkonesmall]

Thanks for the video! very interesting as usual 👍

[@BenjaminWSong]

Thank you DT. Always enjoy your videos and sure learn a lot from them. Thanks to your videos I was able to jump from Debian with XFCE to Arch with Qtile. From Leafpad to Vim. I'd like to share a quote i came across: Arch + Qtile + Kitty = Perfection... LOL

[@harryhall4001]

To be honest I don't consider Debian plus XFCE to be a bad setup. Debian is supposed to be stable and reliable, and XFCE is a lightweight yet customizable UI. Only thing it's really missing is the vsync issues and wayland support. I used to use XFCE + Compiz, and you could probably do something with Wayfire that's similar.

[@arnasudovic8383]

Thanks for video :) At first I created dmenu for window list, later for mocp and when I saw the pattern I wrote this extension part :) I realy happy to see that in someones video as a cool stuff. This dmenu extension I use a lot: clipmenu, passmenu, session menu, udiskie-dmenu, networkmanager_dmenu - all these can be run through this extension as qtile part. For dmenu I use dmenu2 in arch as it has -h option and I can make it same height as top bar with same colors. Second thing - why you use columns and stack layouts? For me they looks same. If you don't want to have many windows in one stack (that's mostly happens rarely) just hit `EzKey("M-S-", lazy.layout.toggle_split())` for column layout. At the beginning stack layout was default (max and stack), but later moved to columns.

[@ArawnFR]

if you have those on your git, could you send your repo so I can learn from you ?

[@Yogesh-kr7bo]

​@@ArawnFRhey I used mocp but then I discovered musikcube which was a lot better give it a try

[@myhandlehasbeenmishandled]

Thank you for making this video. I love the info you provide.

[@coding_dynasty]

my arch linux doesnt recognize my android phone, any solution?

[@Daoist_Oak]

yay -S mtpfs mtp-tools Also next time Kindly, RTFM!👍

[@coding_dynasty]

@@Daoist_Oak anyway, it still doesnt work

[@myhandlehasbeenmishandled]

@@coding_dynasty I wish I could help you buddy. But you got my support for reaching out for help. I can't stand people when they post shit like "RTFM". If person thinks like that than they shouldn't respond. Let those that are willing to help comment. It's like, if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all. Most people that use Linux know to first look up info.

[@coding_dynasty]

@@myhandlehasbeenmishandled some people have a shitty mind

[@0xDEAD-C0DE]

​@@myhandlehasbeenmishandled Because they don't read the manuals. Plain and simple. If they had read something. They will know the answer is either there or on Google.

[@MuhammadAwais-ms8se]

How i connect it with wifi i try but i never connects iwd, nmtui,nmcli and broadcom wl

[@DistroTube]

Window managers don't "connect" you to wifi. Window managers just manage windows. To enable NetworkManager....open a terminal and type: sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager --now

[@tailsorange2872]

I don't really know what qtile really means in the context of the Linux Distro distributions but what a Cute tile of yours!

[@imasciencegeek]

Qtile is independent from distros, it's a small application that mostly just handles window placement.

[@tailsorange2872]

It's a pun.@@imasciencegeek

[@imasciencegeek]

@@tailsorange2872 ah, I see.

[@sbr895]

First.

[@sub-harmonik]

the main thing that would turn me off from qtile is that it's written in python which is kinda slow

[@007JayP007]

While Qtole is configured in Python, most of the critical business logic is handled in C or is simply a API call to the xserver/Wayland. In terms of speed, Qtile is definitly on the same level as i3.

[@umka7536]

Which is kinda not. I tried Qtile vs i3 vs Xmonad. I did not see any difference.

[@glensmith491]

Windows management is one of the areas Python shines. Python is best as a job manager. Python itself is slow but in job management you are usually calling APIs and launching other programs. Where Python is slow in such an interface issue is either not relevant or a possible advantage.

[@Axify]

my man, were not sending rockets to space, python is only "slow" relative to other languages, it is completely fine for a wm

[@sub-harmonik]

@@Axify yeah that's what ppl said about javascript and now when people continue adding 'features' to webpages to basically turn them into full-blown apps they become super slow, unresponsive, and memory intensive. You don't have to send rockets to space for efficiency to be a factor in user experience. Maybe I will concede if it's just checking variables and making calls to X11 it doesn't matter too much, but at the same time I can see those hooks adding up. Also python isn't even the most efficient scripting language. Something like c with lua configuration makes way more sense imo.