# The Lounge 0001 \[From the Beginning\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [August 27, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64 "2017-08-27T02:44:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 928
**Author:** ![Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/michael/32/9677_2.png) [@Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Michael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18549 "2018-05-24T01:33:21Z")
nice, going from how I’ve been working on one file it’ll be much easier, kinda feel inspired to actually do that now before I put it off again, hopefully it won’t get me long to sort out the mess XD ---
**Author:** ![Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/dje4321/32/7355_2.png) [@Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Dje4321)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18550 "2018-05-24T01:55:40Z")
![Screenshot%20from%202018-05-23%2020-38-42](https://forum.0cd.xyz/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8b887ccc287ff0a99bf899f574355387602f222c.png) ~/.xinitrc ```auto cat ~/.config/i3/*.conf > ~/.config/i3/config exec /usr/bin/i3 ``` ---
**Author:** ![Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/michael/32/9677_2.png) [@Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Michael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18551 "2018-05-24T01:59:36Z")
Nice mind if I steal your setup 😛 was just going to ask how exactly you set that up. ---
**Author:** ![Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/dje4321/32/7355_2.png) [@Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Dje4321)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18552 "2018-05-24T02:00:20Z")
go ahead. note that this setup is based around startx so take that into mind ---
**Author:** ![Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/michael/32/9677_2.png) [@Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Michael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18553 "2018-05-24T02:03:36Z")
hmm yeah not sure how Fedora will work with that out of the box, will have to play around with it. ---
**Author:** ![Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/dje4321/32/7355_2.png) [@Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Dje4321)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18554 "2018-05-24T02:04:57Z")
could just create a script that manually updates the config and you can refresh the i3 session from their ---
**Author:** ![Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/michael/32/9677_2.png) [@Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Michael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18555 "2018-05-24T02:14:01Z")
Not a bad idea, although somewhat less elegant that your solution, I’ll try and get this working on Fedora first, it should be possibly even if I have to strip it down some and if not get my script writing hat on. ---
**Author:** ![Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/dje4321/32/7355_2.png) [@Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Dje4321)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18556 "2018-05-24T02:20:47Z")
besides just editing the session file for i3 to generate the config file before hand i dont know of a better way ---
**Author:** ![Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/michael/32/9677_2.png) [@Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Michael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18557 "2018-05-24T02:31:44Z")
yep Its a good enough solution as any though, thought I’d try opening a tty and using startx with your xinitrc and it works and launches i3 instead of gnome but doesn’t load the config file or can’t parse it correctly for some reason. It is definitely reading it but most of the errors are todo with i3blocks but none of my hotkeys work either. ---
**Author:** ![Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/michael/32/9677_2.png) [@Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Michael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18558 "2018-05-24T02:40:30Z")
I’m an idiot and know what I’ve done, I didn’t seperate out my whole config correctly and my i3block file is also named i3blocks.conf so it just overwrote the config file with that which It can’t parse and that is where the errors came from. ---
**Author:** ![Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/dje4321/32/7355_2.png) [@Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Dje4321)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18559 "2018-05-24T02:44:43Z")
[split-config.tar.gz](https://forum.0cd.xyz/uploads/default/original/2X/6/64296da3e7de171ec8bb54563c46eb4c2c584575.gz) (2.7 KB) @Michael known good split config. is mostly default atm but i remapped $mod+Shift+c to regen a config file instead on 85-i3keys.conf and audio and brightness control on 6X-\*.conf ---
**Author:** ![Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/michael/32/9677_2.png) [@Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Michael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18560 "2018-05-24T02:51:32Z")
Thanks those will be a great help, my config is still mostly default with some added stuff so only need to copy over a couple of changes and add a few of config files for extra stuff like resolution and monitors. Also looks like my audio config is almost exactly the same as yours 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/dje4321/32/7355_2.png) [@Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Dje4321)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18561 "2018-05-24T02:56:31Z")
> [@Michael](#): > > Also looks like my audio config is almost exactly the same as yours 😃 i pulled mine from the internet so not surprised lol ---
**Author:** ![Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/michael/32/9677_2.png) [@Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Michael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18562 "2018-05-24T03:02:16Z")
lol that great repository of information, chances of us pulling it from the exact same site are quite high. ---
**Author:** ![Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/dje4321/32/7355_2.png) [@Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Dje4321)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18563 "2018-05-24T03:10:43Z")
working on getting my backlight setup working as xbacklight does not work with the ATI driver EDIT. setup now 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/michael/32/9677_2.png) [@Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Michael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18564 "2018-05-24T03:16:46Z")
Nice, how did you manage to get it working? no surprise laptop has that same issue and would want to fix that also 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/dje4321/32/7355_2.png) [@Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Dje4321)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18565 "2018-05-24T03:18:55Z")
installed `brightnessctl`from the AUR created /etc/udev/rules.d/10-brightness.rule with the following ```auto ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="backlight", KERNEL=="acpi_video0", RUN+="/bin/chgrp video /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="backlight", KERNEL=="acpi_video0", RUN+="/bin/chmod g+w /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness" ``` added myself to the video group ---
**Author:** ![Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/michael/32/9677_2.png) [@Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Michael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18566 "2018-05-24T03:24:39Z")
neat will maybe have try that but not sure how it’ll translate to Fedora, brightness controls always worked in other DEs like Gnome but could never got that to work in i3. ---
**Author:** ![Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/dje4321/32/7355_2.png) [@Dje4321](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Dje4321)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18567 "2018-05-24T03:26:26Z")
> [@Michael](#): > > brightness controls always worked in other DEs like Gnome but could never got that to work in i3. gnome uses dbus to trigger a ACPI event that adjusts the brightness that way > [@Michael](#): > > neat will maybe have try that but not sure how it’ll translate to Fedora Could install it via DNF because its a package or go the github route > **[GitHub - Hummer12007/brightnessctl: A program to read and control device brightness](https://github.com/Hummer12007/brightnessctl)** > > A program to read and control device brightness ---
**Author:** ![Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/user_avatar/forum.0cd.xyz/michael/32/9677_2.png) [@Michael](https://forum.0cd.xyz/u/Michael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64/18568 "2018-05-24T03:35:30Z")
thanks i’ll dnf install the package and see if it works. also not sure why but my laptop is acting super weird. the screen keeps flashing on and off and the mouse and keyboard inputs freeze and stop working until the screen turned off completely. also noticed some display issues on Windows earlier but not sure if its related. [Previous page](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64.md?page=927) [Next page](https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/the-lounge-0001-from-the-beginning/64.md?page=929)