Setting up mpd and mpc to use with dmenu and i3 on Arch Linux
Posted by jason on May 11, 2012, 5:46 p.m.
- Install mpd and mpc:
[jason@jason ~]$ pacman -S mpd mpc
- I copied the
/usr/share/mpd/mpd.conf.examplefile to/etc/mpd.confand bent it to my will. Here's what it looks like:[jason@jason ~]$ cat /etc/mpd.conf music_directory "/var/lib/mpd/music" playlist_directory "/var/lib ...
Arch Linux: Open files directly from Chromium in i3 or Awesome
Posted by jason on Dec. 6, 2011, 7:13 a.m.
These instructions are for i3 without using a desktop environment like gnome or KDE. My problem was that I would download a file in Chromium, and when I tried to open it, it would open the file in firefox before being opened in the appropriate application. Here's the solution ...