Hello, I've been using Garuda and the I3 version as my daily driver for the last 3 months, and honestly it's been a really great experience. It's saved me a ton of time, and it has for the most part just worked perfectly "out of the box" as one would expect. There is however one issue I can't seem to get past, and it's starting to get a bit annoying.
Things like monitor settings, keyboard settings etc has to be reset after reboot.
I have 2 monitors, everytime I start my computer I have to positioned the top monitor to placed abvoe the main monitor, and not on the right.
Keyboard settings, I work with a pretty low Repeat Delay/Repeat Interval, and everytime I reboot those settings are not applied anymore. However if I open up the options, my last settings are still "there" and by tweaking it by 1, I get my values back.
As well as something like the Garuda welcome assistant. HAving disabled the "Show at start up", it'll still show at start up, until I just removed it from the i3 cfg.
Hope anyone has some tips or pointers to get this resolved! Other than that, fantastic software, thanks to everyone involved!
Search by issue. You have several.
I am no i3 user, but I assume/remember i3 uses an xrandr command to auto-start proper (user configured) display settings.
Garuda Settings Manager.
As I understand it, that’s a software GUI the distro offers as a convenience? If this cannot persist changes to the system, is this not an qualifying issue in it self?
Understand me correctly, I can configure these things manually and through the terminal. And if that’s the answer, that’s the route i’ll go.
If someone could be so kind to point me in the direction to debug the Garuda Settings manager, I can even check that out.
This seemed like an either obvious thing I might have overlooked, or a tedious issue with the prepackaged apps the distros provides.
You have chosen i3 for your environment.
I suppose you haven’t looked for the User’s Manual.
I thought it 's the 1st thing someone would do.
You should have a look inside this file.
$HOME/.config/i3/config
# i3 config file (v4)
# Please see http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html for a complete reference!
I’m not claiming this to be an I3 issue. I’m well ad-versed with my window-manager and my environment.
Let me try to clarify, if that helps, the provided GUI tools that comes bundled with the i3wm version of Garuda can only apply settings, they are not saved to be persistent through reboots, or the machine being turned off. That is what I’m experiencing. I already counter some of this in the i3 file and apply certain settings when it starts…
But when the distro offers GUI tools to change a subset of settings, would it not be appropriate to report an instance where they don’t do the job they’re described to do?
I understand that I can configure it manually like any other arch installation. Garuda happen to just provide an option for some, which in my instance, doesn’t work.
For some, not for all.
i3 is a Window Manager with a config to … configure it.
Standard Garuda utilities are for major DEs and compatible setups.
Although I am no i3 expert (or user) I suppose you need to handle i3 config, like normal i3 configuration.
No miracles yet in Garuda Planet… Wrong speculations/expectations on Garuda utilities… unless I am wrong…
The more detail you give us here such as logs, steps taken thus far, etc. helps us help you - more importantly, it helps others coming after to search and find things more easily.
It's a win-win really. We reap what we sow. Plant seeds for the future.
Wrong speculations/expectations on Garuda utilities… unless I am wrong…