I3wm

If you just installed i3 on a laptop and for some reason you can’t tap or the scrolling behavior doesn’t like you, you can update how the touchpad behaves using a xorg config file. In my case the scrolling behaviour wasn’t the one I like, so I modified the NaturalScrolling property. ## /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf Section "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad" Driver "libinput" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Option "Tapping" "on" Option "NaturalScrolling" "true" EndSection You can see all the available options. ...

I started using i3 as my window manager, and at some point started having some issues with env variables on GUI apps. This is because we usually add env variables to the shell config file, in my case the .zshrc file, however, .zshrc will set the env variables only in your shell and not all the apps. So, when setting up a project using git with ssh and a passphrase as authentication (and after doing all the setup for the gnome keyring) I realized that my VSCode wasn’t actually using the keyring and was asking for the ssh passphrase always, however, this wasn’t happening on my shell. ...