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I recently tried some tiling window managers, but the problem with those was that none of them provided basic default configuration and you have to configure th

by codepie 10y ago

I recently tried some tiling window managers, but the problem with those was that none of them provided basic default configuration and you have to configure them from scratch. For example you have to add a plugin for small things such as a battery indicator. The custom themes were too much bloated for me. I ended up installing shellshape for gnome. Do you know any tiling window manager which solves this?

nanny 10y ago
I'm fairly certain that i3 comes with a percentage battery indicator by default. The default config is pretty good (except it uses `jkl;` instead of `hjkl`, but that's a simple fix).
- codepie 10y ago
  For some reasons i3 was showing wrong value for battery. It also had issues with the graphic drivers, showing black screen on logging in. So I didn't consider it as a viable option for me.
- OJFord 10y ago
  I think that's part of a different package, i3-status or something, which is not strictly required but recommended in docs etc. Possibly it's also installed by default if you just choose 'i3', depending on your package manager.
  - nanny 10y ago
    You're right, turns out Arch's i3 package is a group of packagse: i3-wm, i3-status, and i3lock (screen locker).
aabaker99 10y ago
I was also surprised by the lack of battery indiciator in awesome-wm. But it took <10 lines of Lua to add. It was a pain at first but now I really like how extensible awesome-wm is.
cturner 10y ago
This might not work for you, but the way I get battery indicator is to incorporate it into my tmux console. I always run a tmux on the first workspace, and can go there for time and battery. Each device is different, but here's battery code that works on my T460s (http://songseed.org/exhibit/20160629/thinkpad.battery.script http://songseed.org/exhibit/20160629/thinkpad.battery.script) A benefit of this is that it doesn't matter what window manager you use.

by codepie 10y ago

nanny 10y ago

I'm fairly certain that i3 comes with a percentage battery indicator by default. The default config is pretty good (except it uses `jkl;` instead of `hjkl`, but that's a simple fix).

codepie 10y ago
For some reasons i3 was showing wrong value for battery. It also had issues with the graphic drivers, showing black screen on logging in. So I didn't consider it as a viable option for me.
OJFord 10y ago
I think that's part of a different package, i3-status or something, which is not strictly required but recommended in docs etc. Possibly it's also installed by default if you just choose 'i3', depending on your package manager.
- nanny 10y ago
  You're right, turns out Arch's i3 package is a group of packagse: i3-wm, i3-status, and i3lock (screen locker).

aabaker99 10y ago

I was also surprised by the lack of battery indiciator in awesome-wm. But it took <10 lines of Lua to add. It was a pain at first but now I really like how extensible awesome-wm is.

cturner 10y ago

This might not work for you, but the way I get battery indicator is to incorporate it into my tmux console. I always run a tmux on the first workspace, and can go there for time and battery. Each device is different, but here's battery code that works on my T460s (http://songseed.org/exhibit/20160629/thinkpad.battery.script http://songseed.org/exhibit/20160629/thinkpad.battery.script) A benefit of this is that it doesn't matter what window manager you use.