Everyone who uses a Chromium based browser needs to try this: https://github.com/deepjyoti30/startpage

EDIT: #firefox as well, apparently.

It's a highly customizable "new tab" that is installed by git cloning the repository and then unpacking the extension manually, which is exactly what you want for something like this; that way, everything is run 100% locally, and nothing phones home.

I just got done setting it up with all of my browser profiles, to give them each a unique name for the new tab, so that Qtile has individual window titles to match against rules, so that I can just autostart all of them at once and have them all sorted into their respective workspaces (you can't get me to call them "groups," lol) without having to touch anything.

It's the little things; it really is.

Well… everything I have a keybind for in Qtile, and Qtile itself for that matter, has its own thread now.

Also, I am addicted to Rust now for the same reason.

I can almost guarantee you that my setup is way more responsive than anything you've ever seen on r/UnixPorn, and there's still absolutely no reason why I couldn't rice the hell out of it if I wanted to, I guess. I'm not going to, but I sure could, lol.

Seriously, though, this is why I use a tiling window manager: not because they look cool, but because they allow you to do weird things that save, by my estimate, objectively enough clock cycles that it actually feels faster subjectively. The things that fascinate me the most about Unix based operating systems is a mindset that is, for the most part, older than I am.

Or I would love to be wrong about that last part.

When you look at old-school Unix stuff like Grep, it was faster than it had any right to be, for the simple reason that it literally had to be. The hardware they were working with back then was capable of practically nothing by any standard that is even somewhat modern. I feel like no matter how good our hardware gets, the day that mentality becomes lost to history, is the day beyond which any hardware that could ever exist even in theory will never be enough.

Okay, I admit, I gave up on #QTile and went back to #Fluxbox.

I promise, it is me, not qtile. My work flow just doesn't benefit from tiling, and I spent too much time trying to get it to act like Fluxbox. It isn't Fluxbox.

On the plus side, I learned a bit more python playing around with QTile and now know about rofi - a nice replacement for dmenu_run (which I had been using since forever, I think).

https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

Still loving the 3440x1440 monitor, though. On #Gentoo #Linux, ofc.

got the 3440x1440 monitor set up yesterday. unwisely switched to it at the same time I switched from #Fluxbox to #QTile. Feeling the change stress.

But, got #Conky working; am getting used to the different layouts, and am enjoying the extra real estate. Need to tweak the fonts and some settings a bit, but feeling more okay with it than I was last night.

That said, anyone know how to set the N E S W margins individually? Tried a few ways; all errored out. Top conky = need bigger margin there.

Until #Gentoo portage catches up with the packages needed for #StumpWM to run without crashing, I think I'll give #QTile a go. Can't do the keyboard shortcut things I want, but neither can most other WM or DEs.

Should be very helpful with the new 3440x1440 monitor arriving tomorrow. Large fonts AND two windows next to each other. Sounds great; I can't wait to experience it. (Upgrading from 1920x1080.)

I guess I should probably introduce myself, even though I've never even bothered doing one of these before.

I migrated this account from another server.

Things I think are awesome:
#Cybersecurity
#GrapheneOS
#Infosec
#Nixos
#Privacy
#Qtile

Things that describe me:
#ADHD
#Sober
#TS (Tourette Syndrome)
#Unicycle

My current age as of writing is some prime number greater than thirty. My location is somewhere north of the equator and six hours west of Greenwich when daylight savings is observed.

In case you're wondering: my bio is an experiment in data poisoning against LLMs tasked with scraping social media profiles, and I would like to thank @alice for that idea because it wasn't my own.

Also, not that you were wondering, and not that I even know the character limit for bios on this server offhand for that matter, but however many characters that is, that's exactly how many mine is. If there's one thing I'm really good at, it's matching character limits exactly, and that is why I stopped using Tinder. Don't ask.

If you're reading this and I'm following you, I can tell you with absolute certainty that you're awesome. If you're reading this and I'm not following you, I probably should be, and I'll assume you're awesome unless and until you show me otherwise.

Thank you, and #MerryChristmas

#introduction
#introductionpost

EDIT: a word.

Last year, we managed to get Qtile into the official Fedora repositories. Today we did the same for qtile-extras. It will take a week or so until it gets into stable but after that, you can simply run:

dnf install qtile-extras

Since desktop environments can always change and many new releases came out since last year, I would like to know which desktop environment you currently use?

#gnome #kdeplasma #xfce4 #cinnamondesktop #matedesktop #budgiedesktop #lxqt #linuxdesktop #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #i3wm #bspwm #xmonad #dwm #fvwm #qtile #wayland #xorg

* Multiple choices possible

It’s pretty cool that #Qtile will be back in the #Fedora repos come #F40

Thanks to @FrostyX for all the work that you do! #opensource

@fosstodon Can we get a #qtile icon?

@shaknais@mastodon.social Yeah true, thats annoying, especially since it sometimes also differentiates between single and double quotes around a 'thingy' .. And in case of Home Assistant, it also matters if you use it in the backend (raw yamlfiles) or in the frontend (code in a edit-card field).. But hey, at least i kinda get what i'm doing and understand most errors.. And my currect WindowManager on #voidlinux is #Qtile so i'm using python as well, but i'm leaning more on Neovim to correct me than with yaml

@Linux_Is_Best I am very interested in Debian, though I use vanilla #archlinux with #Qtile at the moment.

I didn't get along too well with #debian the last time I tried it. Though I'm interested in its long-term stability.

New #gruvbox theme to go with my #qtile collection. Had some fun because I was too tired to do actual work.

Things I Love About #Qtile https://youtu.be/WElNc4D35y0 #Linux #TheLinuxCast

Good lord but I am easily pleased. Add a corner-radius value to picom.conf and I got my precious rounded corners in #Qtile.

Pip keeps installing stuff in my $HOME/.local/share/bin directory. It is driving me up the wall. Trying to install Qtile, and it won't read it because it isn't in /usr/bin. Is this a Fedora thing? Anybody have similar experience?
#python #pip #qtile #fedora

*Current tech stack* (reposted)

Laptop (Matebook D 14, 2019) #linux (Sparkylinux, follows #debian testing)
- #qtile window manager
- kitty terminal emulator
- #clifm file manager
- #firefox
- #nb #pkm
- #neovim

Phone (OnePlus 9, purchased 2023) running #CrDroid 11 (#Android 15)
- Lightning Launcher
- Firefox (Fennec)
- Fairmail
- #SubwayTooter
- #OSMand+
- #AntennaPod
- #ZettelNotes
- #fooView
- #Calengoo
- #syncthing
- and way too much else