3.26 and xrandr support

[djcas9]

removing org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XRANDR; causes i3+gnome to not respect xrandr dpi

[jthomaschewski]

I had the same and other problems with this package and Gnome 3.26.
For i3+gnome I used to run scripts for switching between different monitor environments (e.g HiDPI+Laptop screen, Non-HiDPI+external ...).
These settings can be changed using gsettings. e.g.:

# enable hidpi
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2
# disable hidpi
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 1
# auto-detection of hidpi (not always working)
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 0

# optional: scale fonts
# gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1.1

I tried to integrate XFCE, Mate and other environments with i3.
In the end I'm now using Cinnamon 3.4 as the base session for i3 - this seems to work much better then Gnome so far:

• Proper XRandr support - including detection of plug/unplug events for monitors
• some gimmicks as working background image
• proper screensaver and power management support without special i3 config

I published my cinnamon fork on AUR and Github - https://github.com/jbbr/i3-cinnamon

Cinnamon is based on Gnome 3 and has a very similar architecture. So it's still possible to use https://github.com/jbbr/i3-cinnamonhttps://github.com/jbbr/i3-cinnamon

[djcas9]

hey @JBBr

I have been playing around with this today to see what can be done. I decided to test out your i3-cinnamon package but I get a "i3-cinnamon couldn't be found" then just a button to "logout". Any ideas?

[jthomaschewski]

@mephux that's strange. i3-cinnamon is a script which should be executable and in /usr/bin/i3-cinnamon

❯ ls -la /usr/bin/i3-cinnamon
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 515  8. Dez 10:53 /usr/bin/i3-cinnamon
❯ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/i3-cinnamon
/usr/bin/i3-cinnamon is owned by i3-cinnamon-git 1:1.0-1

I'm using GDM and it's untested with lightdm (And also untested with a fresh arch install)