sudo pacman -S arcolinux-qtile-distrotube-git we do use the ArcoLinux keybindings The video starts with the presenter expressing their admiration for ArcoLinux, an Arch-based Linux distribution, and sharing the news that ArcoLinux has included their qtile...

Short version : remove arcomemory.py from your Qtile folder Mid April 2020 Qtile gets a new version on Arch Linux. We move from 0.14 to 0.15 and we needed to adjust our config accordingly. This video contains a lot more than "delete the one file and never use it...

There are just a few mouse keyboard shortcuts and the all involve the SUPER KEY So press it in and use the left mouse click and right mouse click to experiment. If you want everything to be tiled again, reload qtile again. SUPER + SHIFT + R There is a keyboard...

Near the bottom of the config.py we define what windows should NOT be tiled and should be made floating. These small popup windows from applications will be tiled otherwise and occupy half of your screen like in this example of the about in variety. This is just an...

The place to learn more about Qtile is http://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/ We found a widget we can add to our menu bar called NetGraph. http://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/ref/widgets.html#netgraph We will make it together. Start with a copy/paste and start changing...

The place to learn more about Qtile is http://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/ We found a widget we can add to our menu bar called Net. http://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/ref/widgets.html#net We will make it together. Start with a copy/paste and start changing the lines...

You can find a lot of information on ArcoLinux but there is so much more out there. The first website to learn about qtile is qtile itself. http://www.qtile.org or the latest documentation http://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/ As always I direct you to the Arch Wiki...

We have chosen to take icons for the workplaces. Icons can mean anything and they can easily be replaced with a copy/paste from the Awesome Font website. You see a better icon. Just copy/paste it in the config.py. Make sure to make a copy of your files. The Skel...

During the video I had the idea to give you also a menu based on text rather than the icons from the awesome font. Instead of the icons we see text like Web, Edit, Music, ... as names for your workspace. You can easily change between the two menu's. We update our...

You can tweak and theme also the borders of the tiled windows. Search for "theme" and you will find init_layout_theme. That will be the initial look for qtile. It is like a standard template. You can define a theme PER LAYOUT. MonadTall MonadWide ... That is super...

The most important message to get across is: Test it out. Trial and error. Use the color #FF0000 or red to make it apparent what part of the menu you are in. Change just 1 setting. Save it. Reload it with SUPER + SHIFT + R. Then some common sense and some tutorials...

Changing your config of qtile can be fun but you may break your config and have a broken qtile as a result. This video will tell how to get back to a working qtile. We delete a komma in the config and qtile crashes. At that point we get the default config of qtile and...

Choose between 4 widgetsIn the configuration file for qtile ~/.config/qtile/config.py you can remove the '#' in front of the widgets you like. In above image there are 4 ways to show you the status of your battery on a laptop. Choose 1 and reload the config with Super...

Use these keyboard shortcuts to move an application to a different workspace. Super + Shift + 1 to move the focused application to workspace 1 Super + Shift + 2 to move the focused application to workspace 2 ... This will work out of the box for Qwerty keyboard users....

Just for AZERTY users!There is NO must to do this... You can change workspaces by clicking on the icon or by using Super + Tab or Super + Shift + Tab. However afterwards you can also use the keyboard shortcuts like Super + 1 to move to workspace 1 and Super + Shift +...

Qtile will set your resolution automatically and will detect dual screen as well. There are just a few applications to remember to be able to figure out what to do if you have problems with your resolution on a Virtual Box machine. xrandr arandr gtf We will show you...

This article is not for the faint of heart... Just joking. But if you are not used to read and work with scripts, it can be a challenge. First off I am not a programmer by profession but I like to challenge myself to learn more. At ArcoLinux we think Knowledge Sharing...

Python-pywal is one of those application that are not needed at all... But it is fun to have it and to play around with it and get some awesome screenshots. In that category falls also all our fun scripts in ~/.bin. We know there are utterly unimportant but all work...

CTRL + ALT + O We have created a shortcut to quickly toggle compton on and off. At some point in time you would like to do that. We take a look at the script, that will toggle compton on and off and show for the first time where in xmonad.hs  the keyboard shortcut is....

compton.conf  Compton has 3 big parts in its file. Shadow Opacity Fading We have an Arch Wiki page to learn even more. Choose glx or xrender. Only if you have trouble with your graphical hardware. We show you that there are lots of articles and video's about...

two major documents to configureQtile has actually just one document where all the settings are : config.py The other one is connected to Qtile but it is not from Qtile. scripts/autostart.sh Autostart.shFind out the names of your screen/monitor with xrandr or arandr....

General infoQtile is a tiling window manager and it is coming from here. You can get more information on the Arch Wiki. The conky is there to help you learn the keyboard shortcuts, when you first boot into Qtile. Conkies in tiling window managers are not required nor...

ArcoLinuxD or ArcoLinuxBIt does not matter whether you are using ArcoLinuxD or ArcoLinuxB. In the next video's you will see that I will work on an ArcoLinuxB-Qtile ssd. ArcoLinuxD or ArcoLinuxB are essentially the same thing. The delivery system is just different....

You can install Qtile via ArcoLinuxD and use and change the scripts we provide. You can also install Qtile via ArcoLinuxB and download the ISO and install it or you can build the ISO yourself and decide what software you would like on your ISO. In the end you will...