Qtile Community Edition - General Discussion

wip, but it is pushed. do not expect anything extraordinary, you won’t get it yet, but it’s usable now. here’s an easy way to test in a vm.

  • get an iso from the latest April release
  • use online installer
  • do not select a desktop environment
  • once installed, connect to network from tty, and install qtile sudo pacman -S qtile
  • start qtile, set up a display manager like lightdm if you want to
  • git clone my repository, do
sudo pacman -S - < packages-repository

(might want to add --needed). then run bash setup.sh. don’t worry about the destructive config message; doesn’t matter on a fresh install. it just overwrites Xresources, gtk config, qtile config, etc. in the future, I’ll make it back them up. Keybinding is Super+R for Rofi (might want to change because conflicts with some apps like the default for SimpleScreenRecorder, what do the i3/sway/bspwm editions use?)

Here’s an obligatory demo (sorry for these Streamable links, forum does not let me upload videos, this is the first result for “video uploading online free”): https://streamable.com/i342sv

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