I freaking love the idea. Raw i3 sucks, you spend half of your time trying to configure Bluetooth, wireless multi-screen support, etc.. Now I use Ubuntu Mate with i3wm support and it's awesome, will try this Insha'allah.
Thanks!
Regolith Linux – A desktop with less visual bullshit
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#22huh? switching distros for a theme?
While I agree that Regolith is mostly "skin deep", there are some aspects that transcend just theming, for example gnome integration. Regolith is not intended as a replacement for those happy and comfortable with building packages from source and hand tweaking configuration.
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#23I'm excited about this and am looking forward to giving it a try. I've been looking for a minimalistic Xubuntu alternative recently -- not unhappy with the latter besides minor grievances, but it's getting boring (perhaps a good thing).
Great! Would love to get feedback on your experience!
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#24I'm a big fan of an i3(gaps) distro, but it's somewhat humorous to say "without all the visual bullshit" and have compiz included.
I see your point. I guess my meaning was more about things on the screen, rather than a lightweight GUI stack.
Alright, that makes a lot more sense. Also I installed it this morning and I'm a pretty big fan. I really like the idea to have a hotkey to show the main hotkey commands. It's such a little quality of life thing that I think greatly lowers the learning curve of i3.
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#25Anybody knows how to set up the `Mod + ?` shortcut to bring the shortcuts? Do they use a script for this?
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#26This is really exciting, and something I am definitely gonna have to try.
It’s basically the custom setup I have right now, with a few enhancements (a better wallpaper manager, better settings management, and st instead of gnome-terminal, although never having tried st I’m not sure if that’s an improvement or not).
Great effort by the creators.
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#27One concern I have is that since I run my Linux instance in a VM inside Windows, I prefer super being mapped to Alt as opposed to Win. Is this possible in Regolith? Also are vim hjkl keybindings available for window management?
Re: Regolith Linux – A desktop with less visual bullshit
#28huh? switching distros for a theme?
i3 is more than just a theme. It’s a different way of working altogether, with a focus on keyboard based productivity.
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#29Having been testing Manjaro because of its really nice defaults in the i3 version, this is also very nice config on Xubuntu. Perhaps enough to become a new Ubuntu variant, "Ibuntu" ?
Re: Regolith Linux – A desktop with less visual bullshit
#30One concern I have is that since I run my Linux instance in a VM inside Windows, I prefer super being mapped to Alt as opposed to Win. Is this possible in Regolith? Also are vim hjkl keybindings available for window management?
Hi addicted, yes you can do both of those things by editing the i3 config file. Details on the internals page of the site.