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Grzegorz Ziemonski

I'm running i3 coupled with polybar and rofi. Most of the time I use only 1 monitor as switching between workspaces is instant and the other monitor is always distracting me. When I want to use more than 1 monitor, then I just type xrandr commands by hand e.g. xrandr --output DP2-2 --auto --right-of eDP1, never had any issues with that.

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Robin Kretzschmar

I used i3 only on a blackarch installation once, would you mind share a (anonymized) screenshot of it here? :)

Maybe I will go with workspaces then also. I use 2 monitors at work (requirements / chat / stuff on one, IDE / remote session on the other) and since then use this setup at home also. Maybe it is time to switch to workspaces at home.

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Grzegorz Ziemonski

Here you go:

I moved a VS Code window next to the browser, so that you can see the lovely gaps and that I've got a Solarized brain recently :D

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Robin Kretzschmar

Wow this looks pretty amazing! Thanks for sharing.

Right now I am convinced to change to i3.
Project for the next couple of days (of course with the same nice gap between the borders 😜)

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Grzegorz Ziemonski

Thanks!

If you want a reference, you can take a look at:
github.com/goyozi/dotfiles

The quality is obviously "just for personal use", but maybe you can pick up a couple of tricks.

There's also github.com/goyozi/playbooks , which sets up the entire desktop if you have a VM with fresh Arch installation to experiment on (the default user/pw is grzegorzz/changeme).

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Robin Kretzschmar

Wow that is full service! Thank you so much!
Will set it up this evening and play around with it a little bit. Maybe I will borrow some tricks :)

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Daniel Mayovsky

If you want to switch to i3wm, this is the best i3wm introduction ever: youtube.com/watch?v=j1I63wGcvU4&li...

This playlist is much as you need for initial configuration and knowing how to use and configure i3. I stand behind this tutorial because my friend, who was completely new to Linux, managed to learn i3 from this playlist.

If you want to peak into my configuration, I have multiple tricks in there, so here it is: github.com/Godje/dotfiles/tree/mas...

Feel free to text me some time if you want to understand what my config does, lol. I have comments here and there, but if you already know how to configure i3, you will understand how it works.