Installation guide

[adrien-barret]

** How to install Hi @AdaShoelace :) finally tried today the install guide but coming from stuff like awesomewm, bspwm... it seems more complicated like put the hadlock binary alone in /usr/local/bin seems not enough to launch it from a tty. I probably miss some steps too. if may be you can had a how to put that in the list of the ui when you log on, (tried in .xinitrc but not enough). It can be easily scripted too so if you don't get the time the both I can make the script after a detailled how to I think.

Also few options which can be cool too:

• Magnifier layout (yeah I asked on reddit ;) )
• The possibility to bring temporary a app from another workspace to the focused one, (eg: firefox on #3, I'm on the #2 workspace which is code with a shortcut, I can import the content of the #3 into the #2 until I really switch to another workplace.
• A screen recorder ?
• Split config file into miltuple file like keybinding.ron, theming.ron (apps choice like terminal...), modules.ron (which can used by polybar...) ... to avoir getting a too much bugger config file.
• customize the workspace numbers with icons instead of numbers

Ty, Hk

[AdaShoelace]

@Hkyx Do you have /usr/local/bin in your $PATH? And when starting it you can't have another wm running since only one is allowed at a time. The best way to installl it is to make a .desktop entry for your session manager eg LightDM and then login with that. Hadlock also needs to take the path to the config as it's only argument.

I will look into packaging Hadlock along with a installation script at a later date.

[adrien-barret]

Hi @AdaShoelace , yeah of course :) first thing in my env PATH. So

• Hadlock is in my /usr/local/bin/
• got a hadlock.desktop in to my home
• the config file into two folders: ~/.config/hadlock/hadlock.{ron,json.material,json.synthwave} (and inside the original folder too : /.config/hadlock/config/hadlock.{ron,json.material,json.synthwave}

here is my hadlock.desktop config:

 π ~ ❯ cat hadlock.desktop    
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Hadlock
Exec=hadlock ~/.config/hadlock/hadlock.ron
Comment=Hadlock - a wm for x
Type=Application

lightdm seems to now see the .desktop

[adrien-barret]

ok solved to launch hadlock and put it into the choice menu. Solution was to move the hadlock.desktop to /usr/share/xsessions

but got freezing on windows and super+shift+q or others key exepting return was not working the ~/.config/hadlock/hadlock.ron file is the one provided by the installation directly

[AdaShoelace]

Could you provide a printout of you .xsession-errors from when the problems occur?

I see that I need to do some cleaning in the repo... I'll take a look at an install script as soon as I have the possibility.