When I disconnected my external monitor, it recognized this and adjusted it appropriately for one monitor. In i3, when 2 monitors were connected, the displays were extended and my external display was recognized as being above my laptop’s built-in display. Wow, after setting this up, it did exactly what I wanted. So I continued searching and found some information about the applications arandr and autorandr. The issue was switching from one monitor to two monitors, then back to one monitor. This wasn’t too difficult, and plugging the commands in my i3 config file in Manjaro was pretty simple.
So, sometimes I’m using just the laptop screen, and others I’m using a dual display setup with the external monitor above the laptop.Īfter searching around online, I found that I could run commands to adjust the display using xrandr. I use a laptop, which is connected to an external display. One of the first things I wanted to tackle before I customized anything was my display setup. I love how many of the Linux YouTube folks show htop, even when system performance is not even being discussed, it makes me giggle.Īnyways, let’s jump into a few things I’ve learned so far during my time with the i3 window manager on Manjaro. At this point, I had watched a few YouTube videos about i3, which explained how to navigate, use dmenu and show off their fancy customized bars, backgrounds, and transparency. Ah, finally, a menu and a clickable interface.įast forward to last week, I decided to dive straight into the Manjaro i3 version of the window manager by installing the i3 community install of Manjaro. I didn’t really give this window manager a fair shake, in frustration of not knowing what to do, I installed something more familiar like KDE or Gnome. Being brought to a desktop where there wasn’t really anything to click on and no menu to be found, or so I thought.
I believe it was an early adventure into Arch that led me to an unpleasant experience with a tiling window manager that I don’t remember the name of. This isn’t really my first dive into a tiling window manager, I’ve run across some before, likely by accident as I recall. So I decided to dive into the i3 tiling window manager on my Manjaro desktop, and these are some things I learned. I’ve heard the Linux elite talk about tiling window managers, like Manjaro i3 edition, for some time.
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