Update :)
Couldn't solve ST problem myself. Reported it to suckless.org mailing list.
Put 'Building packages' on the todo list.
Downloaded a few wallpapers. Installed blacktable from aur. Developer forgot to integrate a menu for changing font size. Font is so small my eyes were bleeding.
Had to edit "darktable.css" in /usr/share/darktable/
Loaded all the wallpapers in. Nice workflow, saves changes to xml file automatically. When you are finished with the batch you just export the whole batch into a folder of choice.
Installed Feh for desktop backgrounds and image quick view, added
feh --bg-fill --randomize ~/.wallpaper/sci_fi_bg/* &
to .xinitrc , now I have a different background every session.
Installed different fonts from aur. Installed fontmanager from aur (very ugly looking, but somehow I had to get the fontnames for howl, other suggestion is to use "xlsfonts" in the console). TTF fonts are recognized, but .pcf fonts are not.
Running
fc-cache
did not help.
Installed howl as code/text editor. lightning fast, good tutorial on website. Changed font and 'saved config', but font doesn't load correctly after restart of program.
had to create "init.moon" in ~/.howl/ with
howl.config.font = "roboto mono"
Now it works. Reported bug in howl gitter.im chat, where the developers hang out, cool.
Added lines for compton in .xinitrc
compton -CGb
Found
http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/06/07/how-to-switch-to-compton-for-beautiful-tear-free-compositing-in-xfce/
Will look into this later. # todolist
Tried to install "brave" browser from aur. Installation failed. Installed "brave-snapshot-bin" from aur (succeded). Very fast browser. But uses huge ram it seems.
Installed Midori webbrowser. Ram usage smaller but still huge, much more than expected. Is this normal? Every tab runs like 5 processes in htop! 6 tabs uses 1.2gb in brave or 900mb in midori. Normal?
Ran
# nvidia-settings
Resolution was already set at 1920x1080, changed refresh rate to 144Hz in "X Server Display Configuration". In "Advanced" settings I activated "Force Full Composition Pipeline" as recommended in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3esPpe-fclI&t=311s
Clicked on "Save to X configuration file" (works if you run nvidia-settings with sudo). Changes in xorg.conf seem to be correct. Restarted X.
But does it work? OMG OMG OMG shocking results!!! >P
It doens't look like it works:
https://www.vsynctester.com/
It vsyncs at 71hz (71hz? But I have 144hz :/) as long as I don't move the mouse. When I move the mouse it goes down to 30 to 48hz (wtf).
https://www.displayhz.com/
shows 48hz then 70hz then 48 hz.... not good :'(
But as the vsync website suggested, this could be because of the browser!
So I installed midori(which is a bad example lol) and there was no vsync at all, as expected.
Will test now all the browsers on this earth to see if it is mainly a browser problem or if nvidia fucked up or something else.
to be continued...