Daniel Silva

A simple observation: The pattern "Funny thing is {insert_arch_based_linux_distro_here} was working fine on my system ... up until ..." is a common one in rolling-based distros. Not saying a recent upgrade broke your setup - I don't have enough data to make that assertion - just pointing out the tradeoff rolling distro's make, and that pattern is precisely how it surfaces. Manjaro tries to mitigate this, which is better than nothing, but it's still a real risk for all Arch-based installs. Godspeed...

Which do you prefer? In my experience, using xfce4-appearance-settings was more fruitful than using lxappearance when using the xfce/i3 version of the iso. Curious what others' experience is.

I noticed that I wasn't seeing full color Emoji using i3 out of the box. After searching for solutions, I ran into this useful comment. Here are the directions straight away: Install a full color Emoji font. sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji Note that another full color Emoji font may already be installed. I didn't bother to check because I like to use the Noto one. Create /etc/fonts/local.conf with the following content: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">...

Sharing the following in case it is useful. When using i3 (i3 gaps) + polybar as configured in the relevant iso, running a window in full screen mode ($mod+f) would not cover the system tray (provided by polybar). This is listed as a known issue in Polybar's docs. See: https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki/Known-Issues#override-redirect-in-i3). As stated above, to fix this: Add the following to ~/.config/i3/config: gaps top 30 Make sure the following configuration is set in the [bar/example] section...

Sharing the following in case it is useful. When using i3 (i3 gaps) + polybar as configured in the relevant iso, running a window in full screen mode ($mod+f) would not cover the system tray (provided by polybar). This is listed as a known issue in Polybar's docs. See: https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki/Known-Issues#override-redirect-in-i3). As stated above, to fix this: Add... gaps top 30 ... to ~/.config/i3/config Make sure the following configuration is set in the [bar/example] section of...

Here are some improvements I've made to the default i3 config bundled by default with the 20.02 iso. I was looking to see if there was a place I could fork and do a pull request, and I could not find one. This is the best place I could find to provide this feedback. If there's a better place, please let me know. Adding --no-startup-id to the xset command. Without this, the mouse cursor shows as a spinning disk after logging in. I happen to like this setting, so I kept it. # fix keyboard rate entry...