Re: [i3] Problems getting Ubuntu repository working

[Michael Stapelberg]

http://i3wm.org/docs/repositories.html lists:

# echo "deb http://debian.sur5r.net/i3/ $(lsb_release -c -s) universe" >>
/etc/apt/sources.list

That command has to be executed. The $(lsb_release -c -s) part will be
replaced by your Ubuntu version when you do that. It seems like you have
not properly executed the command, based on the -c and -s flags showing up
in your sources.list.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Matt Ilacqua  wrote:

> Realized my version of i3 is 4.7.2 and that the sur5r repository wasn't
> working for me. I'm using xubuntu 14.04 LTS
>
> Here's what I see with apt-get update:
>
> Ign http://debian.sur5r.net -c InRelease
>
> Ign http://debian.sur5r.net -c Release.gpg
> Ign http://debian.sur5r.net -c Release
> Err http://debian.sur5r.net -c/-s) i386 Packages
>   404  Not Found [IP: 217.8.49.41 80]
> Err http://debian.sur5r.net -c/universe i386 Packages
>   404  Not Found [IP: 217.8.49.41 80]
> Ign http://debian.sur5r.net -c/-s) Translation-en_US
> Ign http://debian.sur5r.net -c/-s) Translation-en
> Ign http://debian.sur5r.net -c/universe Translation-en_US
>
> Ign http://debian.sur5r.net -c/universe Translation-en
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://debian.sur5r.net/i3/dists/-c/-s)/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not
> Found [IP: 217.8.49.41 80]
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://debian.sur5r.net/i3/dists/-c/universe/binary-i386/Packages  404
>  Not Found [IP: 217.8.49.41 80]
>
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
> ones used instead.
>
> And in my /etc/apt/sources.list file I have:
>
> deb http://debian.sur5r.net/i3/  -c -s) universe
>
> I also tried directly copying "deb http://debian.sur5r.net/i3/ $(lsb_release
> -c -s) universe" right into sources.list and am still getting 404's in my
> sudo apt-get update.
>
> Any info or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
>



-- 
Best regards,
Michael

Re: [i3] managing wifi with i3

[Robert Grah]

thanks guys,



you helped me a lot!









  On Sa, 03 Okt 2015 09:00:17 +0200 Mart Lubbers 
m...@martlubbers.net wrote 




I use netctltray. A simple netctl profile switcher with a tray icon.

 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/netctltray/

 

 Works great and no bloat.



On 3 October 2015 08:50:20 CEST, Valentin Rusu i...@rusu.info wrote:

No problem with that on ArchLinux.

However, wicd-curses crashes when the connection is up, but by that time

I no longer need it so that won't bother me ;-)



* Jeff Bauer jeffru...@gmail.com [2015-10-01 14:53:37 -0500]:



I use wicd with i3, but it always fails when I attempt to connect to a network

 that requires authentication (virtually all of them, these days). There's some

 error in the Python code that I have tracked down yet, so I log into new

 networks with nm-applet the first time, then with wicd thereafter.

 

 -Jeff

 

 

 On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:13:49PM +0300, Valentin Rusu wrote:

I use wicd instead of NetworkManager and I'm very happy with it. It

 would connect as soon as I login in text mode, so by the time I3 is up,

 the connection is already there.



 * Jeff Abrahamson j...@purple.com [2015-10-01 10:41:53 +0200]:



I have the following in my ~/.xsessionrc, and it works correctly:



 if [ "X$DESKTOP_SESSION" = Xi3 ]; then

 nm-applet 

 # and other stuff

 fi



 Jeff Abrahamson

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 +44 7920 594 255 -- only when I'm in the UK



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 2015*



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 http://blog.purple.com/jeff/



 On 1 October 2015 at 10:36, Ingo Bürk ad...@airblader.de wrote:



The window manager is neither responsible nor involved in network

 management at all, so I'm afraid you're looking in the wrong direction

 here.



 On 10/01/2015 10:34 AM, Robert Grah wrote:



 Hey there,







 I am having some problems getting wifi to work in i3. I tried to add







 exec--no-startup-id nm-applet

 to my config and this braught me the icon, but it can not find any wifi

networks.



 It seems that there are some problems with the session or similar. I

also tried wicd or gnome-network-manager all without results.







 I am using Ubuntu 15.04 and i3 4.10.4.







 Any ideas?













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 Valentin Rusu

 IRC: valir




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Re: [i3] Problems getting Ubuntu repository working

[Matt Ilacqua]

Thanks. Not sure what I did before, but executing that command with sudo -i
solved the problem.

[i3] i3 new user experiences summary

[Frederik Eaton]

Hello All!

I just switched from Notion to i3 about a month ago. In general it's
been a positive experience, I especially appreciate the smaller
configuration file, the more sensible default bindings, the ability to
put windows in a tree (if that's the correct word).

After settling in, I made a quick list of some issues I ran into and
wanted to report back to the developers.

- As a user of the Dvorak keyboard layout, I was confused by the
  result of running i3-config-wizard. I can see how h,t,n,s could be
  used for navigation, but many of the remaining key bindings don't
  make sense - why should 'd' split horizontally, or 'p' restart? This
  wasn't really explained to me through the process of installing and
  trying out the software. I ended up having to revert most of the
  bindings to the Qwerty defaults. I think the wizard made things more
  difficult in the end.

- Coming from Notion, I would have expected the default window layout
  to be tabbed. At first I thought that i3 didn't support a tabbed
  layout, because when I first started it (with killall notion; i3), I
  ended up with 10 unusably-narrow windows. I still don't know how to
  make tabbing the default - when I open windows on a new workspace,
  they always come up split. If I kill and restart i3, then everything
  comes up split (and uselessly narrow).

- I had to ask the IRC channel for the name of the key binding to turn
  a dialog box into a window - perhaps the documentation should be
  improved so new users can avoid this hurdle (e.g. under TERMINOLOGY
  in the man page, there could be an entry explaining that a "Floating
  Window" is something like a dialog box).

- Even after learning the "floating toggle" binding it sometimes
  becomes annoying or confusing to have to press it each time - for
  instance if I have to print a lot of stuff in Firefox, but I
  sometimes want to navigate to other windows when the print dialog is
  open. I also sometimes accidentally turn Firefox into a floating
  window when I'm doing this, and then I wonder where all the other
  windows went I would appreciate an option to have dialogs always
  come up as windows by default.

- "focus right" is not always the reverse of "focus left". For
  instance, if the rightmost tab is split horizontally, then one
  command will cycle through all the windows, but the other will get
  stuck cycling through the children of the tab which has been split.
  Same with "focus up" and "focus down" in the stacking layout, when a
  child is split vertically. It seems it would be cleaner to have
  these pairs be strict opposites.

- I like that "i3-nagbar" is available to display error messages, but
  I don't know how to close it with my keyboard... seems like I have
  to use my mouse to close it. I'd prefer to avoid the mouse...!


Well, I hope this isn't too much stuff at once. I'm happy with i3 so
even if you don't fix any of these problems, I'll still use it. As I
mentioned above, I just wanted to report back since it's not always
easy to anticipate how new users will experience a piece of software.

Thanks for all your hard work in developing i3!

Best wishes,

Frederik