Switch from i3-gaps to i3-gaps

>switch from i3-gaps to i3-gaps
>now want all my programs to support background transparency
>considering switching to vim for programming, which would require me to figure out all of the autistic shit required to get error checking and autocomplete (i use vs code with vim plugin)
>considering switching to ranger, no more drag and drop and file previews for more than one file at once (i use thunar)
What the fuck.
It'd be so pretty though.

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Oh shit I meant switch from i3-wm to i3-gaps fuck

But vscode is better

>wasting your time configuring your editor instead of programming

>switch from i3-gaps to i3-gaps

You should get out of this while it's not too late.
Dive too deep in this and you will never be able to recover and get to willfully work in a full blown DE and use a heavy IDE. You will be stuck forever in a loop focused on debloating, editing config files, trying prove yourself Vim or Emacs is a blessing and that you can live without what is considered as a standard everywhere else

>not understanding that configuring the editor is an end in itself

No it isn't because you'll get tired of it after a week at most and waste more time ricing it.
My productivity increased nearly tenfold after I stopped using Gnoo Slash Loonie Toonix to an unactivated W10 where the only thing I can customize is the wallpaper.

in my case, i3wm actually saved me from "remove all bloatz reeeee!!1". I was seriously thinking about going full TTY+tmux, and using xserver only for images/videos when possible.

i3wm added bloat for me: "auto-tiling", "stacking", and "easy workspaces".

Plus it requires me to context switch between "mod+arrow"(i3wm), "alt+arrow"(tmux), and "ctrl+pgup/down"(firefox). Plus I fuck up working with workspaces all the times. Overall, I'm probably slightly slower with i3wm, yet it's infinitely more comfortable than anything I've tried.

Most importantly of all though - it looks minimalist and 1337 h4x0r.

stop being autistic about file previews

>No it isn't because you'll get tired of it after a week at most and waste more time ricing it.

So far I'm 1 year into thoroughly configuring stuff I use a lot(that is: i3wm, i3status, and neovim. 2 months ago I had Xfce instead).

Depends on what "ricing" means to one. For me, "ricing" is deleting all disgusting ugly trash such as transparency, shadows, gradients, animations etc. I do that on every single system I use regularly, I did that on Losedows 7, Losedows 10, GNUj+Loonix Minty Xfeces. With i3wm I saved those few minutes it takes to disable surface-level trash.

The most actually-ricing I do is change the colors in urxvt and i3status on which I spent a few hours.

For me it's not wasting time, I like doing it.

>My productivity increased nearly tenfold after I stopped using Gnoo Slash Loonie Toonix to an unactivated W10

Depends on what you do. For me, neovim and LibreOffice are my "productivity" stuff.

I'm not productive in the first place though. Most of my time I spend shitposting about Looney Goo and playing Team Fortress 2.

OP here, I'm using a compton opacity rule for the programs I use the most.
I'm happy now.

This is weird, because I have different experience switching from Linux to windows 10 (hacked edition)
Since the switch I haven't read any programming book or did any programming or scripting
Past two months I waste my time on video games and hate myself every evening

At least I found some friends through video games. Not that of a loser I was before when I used GNU/Communism

i3-gaps is the manjaro of window managers, you cannot change my mind.

you can still use thunar with i3, user.

I3 gaps is fucking retarded

>switch from i3 to i3-gaps
>now want all my programs to support background transparency
Why do you want gaps and transparency in a tiling wm? Transparency maybe is acceptable for few popup windows (e.g. the notification thing), but gaps are totally retarded.

This. Only retard so-y-boys use nu-gaps in their numale-wm

ricing is something NEET's do to kill time. Transparency and gaps are such a waste of resources. Do you want to see your dick-girl wallpaper through your code in vim?

>i3-gaps
we have to convince i3wm to adopt fucking gaps god damit! i don't want airblader be lurking my porn with is pretty backdoor

Oni Editor is nice. You could evaluate that as a VS replacement.

I use i3-gaps on manjaro

Airblader keeps gaps separate because the code is so messy and hacked together that it will never be part of normal i3

if i can't, then what's this all been about?

I want the people behind me in lab to see my dickgirl wallpaper through my neofetch terminal

ye i saw the changes and its all over the project, but that's not his fault do more that the main project was never intended to have gaps

>inside the mind of a ricer

I use
>i3-gaps
>no compositor (no tearing anyway and fuck transparency)
>vim
>thunar
it's worth it user, if you have the time.
I probably wont switch to ranger as thunar is also a ftp client, and a drive auto-mounter.

>No it isn't because you'll get tired of it after a week at most and waste more time ricing it.
Why are you asserting your own self on to others?

The entire reason I use vim is for configuration ubiquity.
I have used 1 vimrc file for at least 5 years on several different operating systems, including Haiku. And it just works, exactly how I want it, with all my plugins and shit, it's perfect so long as I bring 1 file with me, that's it.
No fuss, no muss, outside of what probably totalts to 20 minutes of configuration total, over the course of like 2 months when I first installed it. Worth the investment 100% for me.

Also I'm primarily a Windows user. But like I said, the best thing about using portable and configurable tools like Vim, is that I'm not bound to it, nor do I have to learn new tools when I move to other platforms.

oh man i remember when i tried switching from windows to arch. no productivity at all. most of the time spent ricing my env. quickly found out what you're saying and just abandoned my box.

I don't understand how people can spend so much time ricing. Just copy some rice off the internet and call it a day.
My system is probably more riced than most ricers on Jow Forums and all I did was install some themes and set up a few keyboard shortcuts.