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Using the I3 tiling windows manager, pair that with a dual monitor setup and it really makes running dnd and doing other work so much better

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you can afford those monitors, you can afford Foundry.

[–] sharpiewater 12 points 4 months ago

lol I got them for free

[–] Ziglin 1 points 3 months ago

You shouldn't have to. It's about time there's a good FOSS alternative for the existing VTTs.

[–] Sanctus 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Damn, thats nice. Might not abandon the idea of i3 on my desktop once I chuck this nvidia card.

[–] sharpiewater 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It really is incredible. Also nnvidia did make open source drivers for Linux, though I don’t know what model you have.

[–] Sanctus 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

2080 TI. I love the arch wiki but with Nvidia drivers it felt like that how to draw an owl guide. Instead of trying harder I'm just abandoning nvidia.

[–] sharpiewater 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

2080 TI.

pacman -S nvidia or nvidia-dkms should work for you

[–] Sanctus 1 points 4 months ago

The nvidia didn't work. I'll try dkms next time I reinstall arch. Thank you.

[–] Ansis100 10 points 4 months ago

I see i3, I upvote

[–] iamascaryvampire 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What size monitor is that? It looks bigger than a 49

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Those are 2 monitors

[–] raynethackery 6 points 4 months ago

That's a lot of Drow. Don't trust them, especially the Priestess of Lolth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm running?! Shit ... uh ... save vs death.

[–] spittingimage 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] sharpiewater 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

You mean I3-WM? It's the windows manager I use and it is a thing on Linux. Its a thing that requires config file editing and time to learn but its like super useful for a fast workflow and its light on system resources. It is what makes the management of all my stat blocks so easy.

[–] spittingimage 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, I was making a death save. That's how my dice have been rolling lately...

[–] sharpiewater 3 points 4 months ago

Oh I’m dumb

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hold the phone i3wm runs on windows? Guess that's what I'm tinkering with for the next while. I wonder how much of my linux config carries over.

[–] sharpiewater 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If it does I would not know. I wasn’t saying i3 runs on windows, I was saying i3 is a window manager.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oops I totally misread. Windows doesn't have wm that you can swap out like x11 afaik so I don't think i3 would work there. Might be some other similar software though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

yep yep, OP was using 'windows' as in program viewports, not the OS hahah

and yeah, i3 won't run on Windows. there are some hacky implementations though, like FancyWM which just work on top of Explorer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm getting pretty serious monitor envy.

I have a similar setup: one monitor for the VTT and video, the other for notes and character sheets. But my monitors aren't nearly as large, so I can't get the fancy tiling.

[–] sharpiewater 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

you can still do it on smaller monitors

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I can, but I wouldn't be able to read anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Pretty much the most use I got out of running 2 monitors at once. Sadly, my group never gets together anymore :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Still needs a lot of juggling haha. Too true.