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Reignbeaux

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Registered: 2014-12-30

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Use gnome-settings-daemon in i3

I'm really fallen in love with i3wm, but I still miss some goodies from full-blown desktop environments like gnome. So I found this post about just starting the gnome-settings-daemon on i3 startup (I'm using gdm to start the i3 session), so here is what I got:

exec --no-startup-id /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
exec --no-startup-id nm-applet

But I get this error when doing so and nothing is working (not even the network manager: "Networkmanager is not running..."

/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon

** (gnome-settings-daemon:10186): WARNING **: Unable to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

(gnome-settings-daemon:10186): rfkill-plugin-WARNING **: Failed to acquire NetworkManager proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

** (process:10195): WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

Any suggestions to this?

Alad

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Re: Use gnome-settings-daemon in i3

Are you sure you enabled NetworkManager as described on the wiki? You should also disable the mouse plugin for gnome-settings-daemon.

But using gnome-settings-daemon is like cracking a nut with a sledgehammer, IMO. Can you exactly specify what "goodies" you expect?

Last edited by Alad (2015-03-03 20:04:21)

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Reignbeaux

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Registered: 2014-12-30

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Re: Use gnome-settings-daemon in i3

Hi, thank's for your reply
I'm looking for stuff like easy monitor setup, network settings, automount or sound control. Pretty much everything I don't have to care about using something like gnome.
But you might be right, using the gnome settings maybe isn't the right way. What would you suggest?

Alad

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Re: Use gnome-settings-daemon in i3

easy monitor setup, network settings, automount or sound control.

#1 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr

arandr for a GUI

#2 NetworkManager should work by itself

#3 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … ons#Udisks

I'd go with devmon myself, configured for udisks2. Alternatively, you can use a file manager like PCManFM which runs in the background.

#4 Depends whether you use ALSA or Pulse. Some examples:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … e_managers

As you can see, it takes some time to compose your own set of tools, but you get exactly that, your own set.

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progandy

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Re: Use gnome-settings-daemon in i3

#4 Depends whether you use ALSA or Pulse. Some examples:

If you use Pulse, then you might also be intersted in a mixer to access the volume levels of the different applications. I know of pavucontrol and veromix(-gtk). The latter is in the AUR.

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joehillen

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Registered: 2015-01-08

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Re: Use gnome-settings-daemon in i3

I am using i3-gnome but it broke with the latest gnome update, 3.16.

Last edited by joehillen (2015-04-10 08:12:32)

eduncan911

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Registered: 2015-05-02

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Re: Use gnome-settings-daemon in i3

I've used gnome-settings-daemon successfully in Debian (GDM) and Ubuntu (LightDM).  For some reason, using the same i3 config file, I can't seem to get my specific settings in Arch + GDM + i3. 

Specifically, the most annoying setting I need to enable are my keyboard settings: short(er) delay, and fast(er) repeat.

What's odd is I have Adwaita dark set, and my GTK apps all use that theme.  So some settings are being picked up.