Dropdown Terminals and Scratchpads in i3wm!

[@GonzaloOviedoLambert]

Luke, I'm from Chile, your videos are awesome, my english is very poor, but anyways, Thank you very much for your effort, your passion for minimalism and tech me and help a lot with the use of i3.

[@ZnMgkbvprb]

buena wn

[@hectorcanizales5900]

Buenas, hablas buen inglés

[@JamWard]

Your English is perfect btw

[@_zh3ro_]

muito bueno your englando

[@taylor-worthington]

Glad to finally understand this. Thank you so much. I was so tired of cycling through all the scratchpad windows.

[@nickoct7472]

I already loved i3 but you just gave me more reasons to love it. Thanks.

[@lifestain]

That's freaking great. I didn't thought we could use multiple scratchpads in i3. I've always used the default one for keepass, leaving me without the ability to use tmux like you do, which was annoying.

[@LoganVenter]

I struggled getting my instance to come off of scratchpad, but it's working. This is really neat, thanks for sharing!

[@sheebeedeebee2571]

PSA: If you're using i3 with URxvt, you have to use the "-name" instead of "-n" and the argument must be placed after "-e" Example: exec --no-startup-id $term -e -name

[@thescrawl6594]

>not using qalc for maths

[@vison360]

Tilix has nice "quake" mode: tilix -q It works with i3 out of the box.

[@cmcm6676]

I like your color scheme. How did you make the colored text in vim, i'd like to have something similar when i write python scripts, configs, c++ programs. Can i find them on github or do you need to update your files ?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

You mean syntax highlighting? Just put `syntax on` into your vimrc.

[@cmcm6676]

Yes, that's what i meant, thank you.

[@jannineweigel5076]

gnome-terminal won't move scratchpad when i3 startup, any solution?

[@dgaa1991]

This is probably a long shot, but I tried to do the asme thing as you in order to make a "new" scratchpad which would act as my git terminal with the keybinding mod+g ``` bindsym $mod+g [instance="git_term"] scratchpad show; [instance="git_term"] move position center for_window [instance="git_term"] floating enable for_window [instance="git_term"] resize set 800 300 for_window [instance="git_term"] move scratchpad for_window [instance="git_term"] border pixel 5 exec_always --no-startup-id termite --title=git_term ``` I can see that the termite terminal git_term stars up it starts as a normal window and not in the scratchpad? and I can't get it up with mod+g even if I add it to the scratchpad. Any clever thoughts on this?

[@founderofisis6627]

For Termite users. exec --no-startup-id termite --title=dropdown --name=dropdown --class=dropdown -e tmux

[@GautamSharma-un3cr]

For some reason, the dropdown is not showing up. it should show technically because the commands runs on shell just fine. What is causing this? Is it the version? I have i3-gaps v4.14.1

[@LukeSmithxyz]

What terminal are you using and what command in your i3 config spawns the terminal window?

[@GautamSharma-un3cr]

I'm using urxvt and using mod+Enter to spawn the regular terminal window. Also, the i3 config for dropdown terminal is the same one which you have shown

[@jagc2206]

How do you make your i3 bar look so nice? I can't find anything about it in your i3/config

[@LukeSmithxyz]

It's Polybar. Check my ~/.config/polybar/config. You'll need polybar and I think siji-git for the fonts.

[@jagc2206]

Luke Smith thanks, I'll try it out.

[@greob]

There's a caveat in your setup: if you accidentally kill your scratchpad terminal, you have to restart i3 to have it back in scratchpad. Better use a wrapper script called everytime you press the bindsym, like "run-one" by Dustin Kirkland ( launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/run-one ) for example (it's just using a simple flock) For those using xfce4-terminal, you have to use --disable-server for this to work: set $TERM_DROPDOWN /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal --hide-menubar --disable-server -e tmux -T dropdown_terminal set $RUN_ONE ~/bin/run-one bindsym $mod+twosuperior exec --no-startup-id $RUN_ONE $TERM_DROPDOWN; [class="(?i)xfce4-terminal" title="dropdown_terminal"] scratchpad show; [class="(?i)xfce4-terminal" title="dropdown_terminal"] move position center for_window [class="(?i)xfce4-terminal" title="dropdown_terminal"] floating enable for_window [class="(?i)xfce4-terminal" title="dropdown_terminal"] resize set 625 400 for_window [class="(?i)xfce4-terminal" title="dropdown_terminal"] move scratchpad for_window [class="(?i)xfce4-terminal" title="dropdown_terminal"] border pixel 1

[@FolklorCaduco]

I'm doing this manually, by having the bindsym show the scratchpad and adding same bindsym plus Shift to open a new instance if one isn't running.

[@sir0nion]

I couldn't get it working with urxvt -n. I changed to -T and instead of [instance="foo"] I used [title="foo"]

[@mohammadallataifeh1196]

in urxvt it's -name instead of -n

[@georgesamy00]

Yeah instance compares with the WM_CLASS, it's supposed to be title.. also in terminator I used -T and -C instead

[@thexavier666]

i was using gnome-terminal and could not get it working as it does not have a way to set window name. I ended up using mate-terminal and it worked great!

[@kirkeasterson3019]

When are you switching to emacs?

[@bgpivoter]

Didn't take you for a Burzum guy.

[@cookiedestroyer402]

he has pictures of varg in his videos

[@MoreChannelNoise]

Update for your Dwm and popup term?

[@predragmiletic3078]

burzum!!! haha luke is the man!

[@seanicus100]

Anyway to bind a key to switch focus *to* and *away from* the dropdown, though?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Just use whatever binding you have to switch from tiling to floating windows. The default should be mod+space.

[@MiguelLopez-bd7se]

The binding is not working. I checked the command and it was correct. I use i3 and urxvt. Is urxvt causing this?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Check the urxvt manual. The syntax for giving a window a name is different.

[@MiguelLopez-bd7se]

It checks out find. I tested it. What do you think is causing this?

[@douwehuysmans5959]

Probably insufficient understanding of the English language

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Use -name instead of -n.

[@MiguelLopez-bd7se]

I'm using -name. I also tested it in the shell. It runs perfectly fine. I also verified my i3 config. Can't figure out the issue

[@dericbytes]

sweet

[@TBeathard]

>listening to burzum albums after filosofem

[@ameynarkhede8264]

For some reason this is not working for me.Its not even popping a window at the corner. Then I copied same lines from your config still didn't resolve it. Btw i use termite as my default terminal

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Different terminal emulators will have different syntax for how you name windows. On st, as I showed, you use -n, but termite might use -name or something else. Check the man.

[@ameynarkhede8264]

Luke Smith still doesn't work. I tried both options for termite and urxvt

[@LukeSmithxyz]

You did --name=dropdown? Does any window show up at all on restart?

[@ameynarkhede8264]

Luke Smith does it have to do anything with i3 version? I'm running i3 v 4.14.1. Previously I didn't put equal sign for dropdown after name. After putting it I'm getting error in i3 config itself. Edit- After some doing editing I resolved the error(typo) but now its the same nothing happens. So now I'm using tdrop

[@gautamsharma3835]

Same problem with me. I verified the shell command, it's working when I type it into urxvt. Even I use i3 v 4.14.1

[@playerone2772]

Can you do this in DWM?

[@MaxMustermann-gx7gc]

I've replaced my Windows host with an arch one seeing your videos. I sometime want to use my laptop on dual Monitors. Maybe setting up this Can be one of your next Videos?

[@tengouku]

Max Mustermann I think he made a script for this github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/blob/master/.config/Scripts/screen.sh

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Yeah I do use that script, but I might as well do a video on xrandr because that's something a lot of people are curious about.

[@sinthorias]

Look up 'mons'. It's in the AUR, and it's basically a xrandr script like one you'd write yourself, but written to handle a lot of different situations, options and be easy to use. Alternatively, use ARandR for now.

[@cesrrr01]

arandr

[@adrianstaniec]

Dude, I think you should start a Linux distro ;]

[@LukeSmithxyz]

This is probably will be the closest I'll do: larbs.xyz/

[@jccl1706]

how to use color schemes, in (st), simple terminal

[@zeljkobekcic9656]

If you have not figured it out by yourself already: You have to patch the config.(def).h, so that the array with colors compiles with the colorscheme you want to use. Everything works like this in st

[@jccl1706]

Zeljko Bekcic thanks 👍👍

[@deepaktalan07]

Please Please Please keep your Camera at Eye level. Put some support(height). Please. Please.

[@KD-rh2cr]

kinda related to python as a calculator, but I made an aesthetic calculator wrapper for python on github @ github.com/dixler/pc

[@HiguchiBR]

Fuck all this now I run radhat on my x220. (sorry about my language, I just wanted to say it to someone, thanks.)

[@greob]

How did you do the i3 config file syntax highlighting?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

You just have to dl a vim syntax file for it: github.com/mboughaba/i3config.vim