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diff --git a/content/blog/miscellaneous/i3dropdown.md b/content/blog/miscellaneous/i3dropdown.md index 52262ec..0ffbe35 100644 --- a/content/blog/miscellaneous/i3dropdown.md +++ b/content/blog/miscellaneous/i3dropdown.md @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ --- title: "i3dropdown" -linkTitle: "i3dropdown" date: 2020-01-23 -description: > - i3dropdown +description: How to use i3dropdown to pump up your graphical environment +tags: + - toolbox --- +## Introduction + i3dropdown is a tool to make any X application drop down from the top of the screen, in the famous quake console style back in the day. ## Compilation @@ -29,4 +31,3 @@ bindsym Mod4+shift+p exec /home/julien/bin/i3dropdown -W 90 -H 50 pavucontrol pa To work properly, i3dropdown needs to have the path to the i3 socket. Because the command to get the socketpath from i3 is a little slow, it is best to cache it somewhere. By default i3dropdown recognises `/tmp/i3wm-socket-path`. Then each window managed by i3dropdown needs to be floating. The last line bind a key to invoke or mask the app. - |