i3 theming?
lainchan / tech

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Anonymous · 2015-11-18 23:23

i3 n00b here. How do I make i3 not look like shit?

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Anonymous · 2015-11-18 23:31

I really don't understand the desire for aesthetics while using a
tiling wm. The whole idea is efficiency, rice is counter to that.

anyways transparency on your terminals, conky, color schemes.

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Anonymous · 2015-11-18 23:48

I use all the goodies with ratpoison because I want my desktop to look
nice. Nothing more, nothing less. A classy wall, transparent terminals
and a dank color scheme make life more livable if you have to be stuck
in front of a monitor 8 hours a day.

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Anonymous · 2015-11-19 11:35

My i3 desktop isn't all that fancy, but it looks pretty nice imo. I
just use zenburn colors on the titlebars and borders + zenburn themes
for urxvt and emacs. Not on my main machine at the moment otherwise
I'd post a screenshot. I can upload my dotfiles if you're interested.

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Anonymous · 2015-11-19 13:17

>>13990
Except aesthetics and efficency don't have to contradict each other.
If you strive for minimal, clean aesthetics, it very much complements
an efficent tiling wm.

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Anonymous · 2015-11-19 14:58

>>13990
Consider this, too: I spend anywhere between 6 and 16 hours a day
banging my head against a wall in front of a computer screen, dealing
with clients who 'need' some mythical application that's one million
lines long, but they need it tomorrow, and they'll happily pay me $5.
I spend a LOT of time in front of this thing, and effeciency is NOT
everything, especially since I spend much of my time simply staring at
my screen in abject confusion (if you don't properly comment your
code, I hope you get eaten alive by a crazed dolphin on meth),
wondering precisely why there are comments like //program begins here,
but LITERALLY nothing else.

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Anonymous · 2015-11-19 15:16

>>14010
I'm so sorry  :(

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Anonymous · 2015-11-19 17:32

Related, I seem to be retarded and can't get ibus and anthy working
with i3. How do I do this?

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Anonymous · 2015-11-19 23:22

>>13990
Keyboard usage is another reason to use tiling WM's. It's a lot
faster.

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Anonymous · 2015-11-20 03:42

>>13990
Rice (or lack of) and efficiency aren't mutually exclusive.

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Anonymous · 2015-11-20 09:16

>>13989
All that you need:
> a good workflow
> colors and font you are comfortable with
> a bar (I prefer lemonbar)
> a menu (dmenu is p gud)
> very small or no gaps at all

you might also wanna check out nixers.net or blog.z3bra.org for guides

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Anonymous · 2015-11-20 09:48

>>14010
>>14039
Yeah, I didn't mean a tiling manager or setting up a workflow that's
good/efficient for you.

I use i3 and I've spent a decent amount of time setting up hotkeys,
layouts, etc. and a lot fuarrrking around with emacs, making
everything how I want it. I use coordinated color schemes for my
terminal/editor.

I see images posted like the ones in OP though and it's like... why?

The translucent one just makes everything harder to see and I imagine
that guy spends his whole time running apt-get and screenfetch and
maybe checking his email.

Same with the others. A huge ass clock on the desktop,  all that
fuarrrking spacing between windows, the stupid icons on the bar.

The other one with music/twitter/rss/email. It triggers me.

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Anonymous · 2015-11-20 10:20

>>14047
Window spacing in a TWM like i3 totally defeats the point in my
opinion.
Efficiency and maximising screen real estate is why I use i3
personally so adding spacing to that seems stupid to me.
But, whatever floats your boat I guess.

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Anonymous · 2015-11-29 12:25

Does anyone know how to convert an arbitrary string of unicode into a
string of escape seqences like \u3e43?
I made a bash script that returns the name of the playing song but
i3blocks displays non-ascii or non-utf8 characters as dots, but
understands unicode escape sequences.

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Anonymous · 2015-11-30 04:46

>>14047
>people using software the way they want triggers me