Re: [i3] i3 related questions
Hi dharmin, Please direct questions like this to i3-discuss@ (cc'ed), not me personally. dharmin thakkar dharmi...@gmail.com writes: Here I am writing regards to how to setup i3 tiling window manager on my OS. Since I saw this i3 in my tutor's laptop when he was teaching, I have been trying for last few months on how to install this on my OS. But, there is no article or information available on internet as far as my searched went through about how to install i3 on various types of OS and what are the software requirements of the terminal Anyway, I have MacBook pro retina display one has OS 10.9 So could you please help me here with my questions.?? All I want to know in nutshell is if I have OSX 10.9 then what softwares or other OS do I need to run i3?? i3 only works on Linux. I recommend asking your tutor, as in-person help is very valuable and works much better than trying to help other people over the internet. Once you have Linux running on your machine and are somewhat accustomed to it, feel free to install i3 and try to get it running. Note that i3 is _NOT_ recommended for people who are just getting started with Linux. Our target audience is power users and programmers specifically. -- Best regards, Michael
[i3] [i3lock] blur effect
Hello, I am a new i3 user and I used a wrapper for i3lock. https://github.com/ashinkarov/i3-extras/blob/master/i3lock-wrapper This wrapper script takes a screenshot of the desktop before starting i3lock. Then it blurs it and uses that blurred screenshot as the background for i3lock. I was a little bored and little unsatisfied with the script. So I wanted to make it better. As a result of learning and hacking, I can now present to you a i3lock fork. https://github.com/karulont/i3lock-blur/tree/fuzzy It uses COMPOSITE extension to get the windows current state. It uses DAMAGE extension to know when to redraw. It uses OpenGL to blur the image. Currently there is a lack of error checking, but I am still working on it. But interested parties can get the fuzzy branch, build it using make. And test the new blurred background feature by using cmdline switch '-f' (f for fuzzy). Example: cd directory make ./i3lock -f -- Best wishes, Karl
Re: [i3] [i3lock] blur effect
Hi Karl, nice idea, but I don't really understand why you not just draw on i3lock's window? That way you don't have to maintain a fork, we keep the number of forks to a minimum (so… 0 hopefully ^^) and still everyone gets to implement their favourite thingy as a wrapper. You can use xwininfo -name i3lock or something similar to get the window id of i3lock. Just a thought. Best, Axel
Re: [i3] [i3lock] blur effect
On 03/04/2014 09:34 PM, Axel Wagner wrote: nice idea, but I don't really understand why you not just draw on i3lock's window? That way you don't have to maintain a fork, we keep the number of forks to a minimum (so… 0 hopefully ^^) and still everyone gets to implement their favourite thingy as a wrapper. You can use xwininfo -name i3lock or something similar to get the window id of i3lock. At first I didn't even knew what I was doing. Now I could write my own program, which paints on the i3lock's window. But then there would be a race condition between i3lock drawing and my wrapper drawing. And I wouldn't get a good result. I understand that forks are kind of unwanted. I created this just out of boredom. If the guys here think that this feature might be added upstream, I would be very happy about it. But currently this is not yet ready to be used by the masses. Best regards, Karl
