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i3 Window Manager - eighty2fifty1 - 08-12-2022 Has anyone attempted to use i3 window manager or anything like it to change the appearance of their screen? I have several apps that I would like to run along with OAP, but I want them visible at all times, like my airbag suspension control, camera feed, and some other stuff. I’ve had some success using xrandr to make my touchscreen think that it’s two monitors instead of one, but it won’t tile the open windows effectively. I’m going to give it a shot this weekend but I was wondering if anyone else had tried already. I was unable to find anything on the forum about it. RE: i3 Window Manager - eighty2fifty1 - 08-21-2022 So I've made some progress with this. I'm able to get OAP to open in 70% of the screen, and put two more blank windows in the other 30% as a placeholder. To do this, I installed i3 windows manager following these instructions. Once that was done, I edited OAP's autorun script like so.
Getting in to i3's config file, I added this to the end of it. Anything with '#' is a comment. Yes, the splash screen still works but I did disable it while I was initially figuring this out.
Finally, here are the contents of workspace-1.json
And here is the result I'll continue to update this as I go, I'm still figuring this thing out so I'll try to answer questions as best I can, but I am far from an expert here. References: Install Instructions User Guide Layout Saving RE: i3 Window Manager - GSPW - 08-23-2022 Congrats, that's impressive! Any adverse effects to report (lag, etc)? RE: i3 Window Manager - eighty2fifty1 - 08-23-2022 No problems yet. I'm about to get into issuing commands through my Python scripts (to make the other apps fullscreen when i touch them) so we'll see what happens with that. Right now I have a separate app for my cameras (I have more than one) and another to control my airbag suspension. The goal was to have all of them displayed along with OAP at the same time. Seems to be working so far, but I haven't installed it in the truck due to power supply issues. RE: i3 Window Manager - jor3l - 01-05-2023 Does android auto stay inside that portion of the screen or takes over the whole thing? I'm removing all my car dials and physical dash so I need to always have info on the screen similar to a tesla 3, wonder if this works, I was able to get it to work but AA takes over the screen when the phone is connected RE: i3 Window Manager - 3063dprinting - 03-20-2024 I was curious how you have made out with this project. Has it been functioning well? |