[11:41] <BluesKaj> Hi all
[20:10] <ducasse> wb Bashing-om :)
[20:13] <lordievader> o/
[20:13] <Bashing-om> ducasse: Thankeee ... took a pause for the cause .. and now about caught up .
[20:14] <ducasse> \o lordievader, too :)
[20:15] <lordievader> Hey ducasse
[20:15] <lordievader> How are you?
[20:16] <ducasse> good, if i can just catch up on my email. been ignoring it for a few days, so now the backlog is quite threatening :)
[20:16] <ducasse> how about you? i assume Bashing-om is good?
[20:17] <lordievader> Bit tired. Taking the train back home from fosdem
[20:17] <ducasse> ah, how was it?
[20:18] <lordievader> It was fun :)
[20:18] <Bashing-om> ducasse: OH - great for me .. All in my world is percolating right on along :)
[20:20] <ducasse> lordievader: these things usually are :)
[20:22] <ducasse> Bashing-om: here too, been a busy weekend though. now i've sat down with some tea to catch up on stuff.
[20:23] <ducasse> Bashing-om: also want to fix a couple of things i'm not happy with in my i3 config, can't quite stop fiddling with it :)
[20:24] <Bashing-om> ducasse: Uh Huh .. 'bout done with my wake-up-get-started coffee . Things now straightened out and priorities set for the time being :)
[20:25] <Bashing-om> ducasse: Me still with xfce as the prefered environment . Installed 17.04 though .. and gnome3 looks interesting .
[20:27] <ducasse> Bashing-om: still not moved to zesty, although i've grabbed a few packages from it. never did like gnome3, but i might not have given it a fighting chance...
[20:30] <Bashing-om> ducasse: Well .. My intro to 'buntu as real use case was (k)ubuntu 9.04 . with 10.04 I went to ubuntu is the distro ( too much eye candy for my taste ) with 12.04 and unity .. did not fit my use cases - or my mind set .. and I found xfce4 .. been xfce ever since .
[20:36] <ducasse> Bashing-om: i used xfce for a looong time, but found a tiling wm is just so much nicer after testing it on my laptop. originally just wanted it to save screen space on a small screen, but i3 is really fast and nice to use.
[20:40] <Bashing-om> ducasse: Not seen i3, but all I hear and read about it is good . may prpmpt my curiosity to have a good look at it .
[20:44] <ducasse> Bashing-om: it takes a little getting used to, but once you learn the basic keybindings and get it set up to your liking it's excellent. especially nice is that you can do things via ipc that most other wms just can't do.
[20:48] <Bashing-om> Well .. my needs are generally very simple ; terminal does most of what I desire and a GUI just is no longer that important . What I do look for in that GUI is simplicity to configure .
[20:50] <ducasse> most of the stuff i use runs in terminals too, except the browser and a couple of other things. i3 is easy to configure imo, but does require editing the config file. there's no pointy clicky thing.
[20:52] <Bashing-om> ducasse: Right up my alley .. may just have to now fire it up and give it a test run :)
[20:55] <ducasse> have fun :) very easy to get going on ubuntu. default keybining for a new terminal is mod+enter, mod+d for dmenu. there's a map of bindings in the userguide - http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_default_keybindings
[21:01] <Bashing-om> ducasse: Support for multi work spaces ? I generally run 3 - sometimes 2 alternate displays .
[21:03] <ducasse> Bashing-om: yes, and the good thing about it is that it handles it properly, unlike the various desktop envs. i have 3 screens myself, and workspaces are handled independently.
[21:04] <Bashing-om> ducasse: You just may hav a convert on your hands !
[21:05] <ducasse> Bashing-om: :) the only other wm i found that handles this the way i want is enlightenment, and that had some major issues of its own.
[21:06] <ducasse> Bashing-om: be careful, though, you can spend eternity mucking about with the i3 config :)
[21:19] <Bashing-om> ducasse: Yeah ! A quck look through the guide .. never ending configs . But seems i3 is a programmer's dream terminal come true .
[21:23] <ducasse> it gives you a very high level of control over your graphical interface if you're willing to spend the time. unfortunately it has attracted a lot of idiots through /r/unixporn who don't know the first thing about linux, but install arch and i3 so their friends will think they look like 1337 h4x0r.
[22:17] <ducasse> Bashing-om: okidoke, sleepytime i think. you have fun, i'll be back in the morrow :)
[22:19] <Bashing-om> ducasse: Sleep well .. come back all bushy tailed :)