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markasoftware

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Registered: 2014-06-22

Posts: 17

Settings Application with GUI?

I'm an avid user of the i3 window manager. However, although I'm comfortable-ish with the command line, I'd much rather use a GUI for most things if I can. One thing I want is a GUI for is system-wide settings, like mouse speed, display settings, keyboard layout, user accounts management, etc etc. When I used GNOME for a little bit a while ago, I noticed it had a GUI settings app. Are there any standalone ones that I can use without using GNOME, KDE, or whatever other desktop environment? Thank you in advance! And also, I don't to use i3-gnome package in the AUR or set i3 to be the window manager for another desktop environment. I want to be able to just use i3 normally, and then launch this settings application just like I would launch any other application

Last edited by markasoftware (2014-11-06 03:45:21)

ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

Posts: 2,141

Re: Settings Application with GUI?

Short answer: No.The closes thing I've seen to something like this is OpenSUSE's YAST, but that only works because OpenSUSE consists of components chosen by the developers; the same thing just isn't possible on a distribution like Arch.

Long answer: GNOME has a graphical settings application because it's used to configure GNOME components that are integrated in a fairly tight way. Without a desktop environment, things like networking, pointer device setup, desktop wallpapers and toolkit themes are all handled by separate programs that need to be configured individually. The only way around that is to build some sort of unified interface---i.e., a desktop environment.

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,322

Re: Settings Application with GUI?

If you are looking for a small settings system, you might be able to use parts of xfce, lxde or lxqt.
For setting mouse options you could use gpointing-device-settings with xinput-restore

Last edited by progandy (2014-11-06 04:44:31)

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