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I love i3 (though would switch to sway in a heartbeat if they sorted hidpi and xwayland together). Its only major flaw in my mind is that you will never be able

I love i3 (though would switch to sway in a heartbeat if they sorted hidpi and xwayland together). Its only major flaw in my mind is that you will never be able to use someone else’s computer without feeling a seething frustration that it isn’t running i3 with your config...

RMPR 6y ago
> you will never be able to use someone else’s computer without feeling a seething frustration that it isn’t running i3 with your config... That's why I try my best to cope with the defaults and change when absolutely necessary. It spares a lot of frustration when you use another config since you can always go vanilla. Edit: quoting
- OJFord 6y ago
  But if they don't also do that, that doesn't help? (It just makes it slightly more likely that they do, or at least something similar.)
  - RMPR 6y ago
    You can then revert back to the default config: mv ~/.config/i3/config{,.old} cp /etc/i3/config ~/.config/i3/config
solarkraft 6y ago
> Though would switch to sway in a heartbeat if they sorted hidpi and xwayland together Do you mean that XWayland doesn't support HiDPI yet? I'm told it's coming ... some day (in a few months). Meanwhile even Chromium got Wayland support so the last laggards on my machine are the JetBrains IDEs.
- gspr 6y ago
  > Do you mean that XWayland doesn't support HiDPI yet? Correct. Emacs is my last regularly-in-use X program under Sway, and my god does it look horrid on a large HiDPI screen :-( > I'm told it's coming ... some day (in a few months). I remember reading that it's complicated and extremely un-sexy (because it's essential X work).
  - jedbrown 6y ago
    I recently switched from xmonad to sway and have been using this fork [1] of Emacs. See [2] for install instructions: > We (@masm11 and @fejfighter) are going to push @fejfighter's fork to the fsf's repository, instead of my fork. @fejfighter's one is rebaseable and have English commit messages. See #23. [1] https://github.com/fejfighter/emacs https://github.com/fejfighter/emacs [2] https://github.com/masm11/emacs https://github.com/masm11/emacs
  - cycomanic 6y ago
    Interesting I'm not having any issues with emacs on my 4k monitor. Similar chromium, which still runs on xwayland, I recall that things fixed themselves a while ago. I'm on opensuse tumbleweed, not sure it's because of this. A quick browse got me a a sway arch-package with hidpi xwayland here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sway-hidpi-git/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sway-hidpi-git/
pmoriarty 6y ago
"you will never be able to use someone else’s computer without feeling a seething frustration that it isn’t running i3 with your config." How often do you actually use other people's computers? I virtually never do, and in the rare cases that I do I'm ssh'ing in to them from my own computer which is running i3, so it's not an issue.

RMPR 6y ago

> you will never be able to use someone else’s computer without feeling a seething frustration that it isn’t running i3 with your config... That's why I try my best to cope with the defaults and change when absolutely necessary. It spares a lot of frustration when you use another config since you can always go vanilla. Edit: quoting

OJFord 6y ago
But if they don't also do that, that doesn't help? (It just makes it slightly more likely that they do, or at least something similar.)
- RMPR 6y ago
  You can then revert back to the default config: mv ~/.config/i3/config{,.old} cp /etc/i3/config ~/.config/i3/config

solarkraft 6y ago

> Though would switch to sway in a heartbeat if they sorted hidpi and xwayland together Do you mean that XWayland doesn't support HiDPI yet? I'm told it's coming ... some day (in a few months). Meanwhile even Chromium got Wayland support so the last laggards on my machine are the JetBrains IDEs.

gspr 6y ago
> Do you mean that XWayland doesn't support HiDPI yet? Correct. Emacs is my last regularly-in-use X program under Sway, and my god does it look horrid on a large HiDPI screen :-( > I'm told it's coming ... some day (in a few months). I remember reading that it's complicated and extremely un-sexy (because it's essential X work).
- jedbrown 6y ago
  I recently switched from xmonad to sway and have been using this fork [1] of Emacs. See [2] for install instructions: > We (@masm11 and @fejfighter) are going to push @fejfighter's fork to the fsf's repository, instead of my fork. @fejfighter's one is rebaseable and have English commit messages. See #23. [1] https://github.com/fejfighter/emacs https://github.com/fejfighter/emacs [2] https://github.com/masm11/emacs https://github.com/masm11/emacs
- cycomanic 6y ago
  Interesting I'm not having any issues with emacs on my 4k monitor. Similar chromium, which still runs on xwayland, I recall that things fixed themselves a while ago. I'm on opensuse tumbleweed, not sure it's because of this. A quick browse got me a a sway arch-package with hidpi xwayland here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sway-hidpi-git/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sway-hidpi-git/

pmoriarty 6y ago

"you will never be able to use someone else’s computer without feeling a seething frustration that it isn’t running i3 with your config." How often do you actually use other people's computers? I virtually never do, and in the rare cases that I do I'm ssh'ing in to them from my own computer which is running i3, so it's not an issue.