Using Qtile. Every day WORKFLOW and CONFIGURATION. The Python based LINUX window manager

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The window manager Qtile in action. Configuration with Alacritty, Polybar, Thunar, Brave, Pywal and Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, ChatGPT plus a Windows 11 VM. The LINUX window manager configured for my every day work. Similar appearance to Hyprland window manager.
All my configuration files are available on Gitlab.
gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotf...
Qtile is a Dynamic Window Manager based on the programming language Python.
qtile.org
Qtile is simple, fast and extensible. With a bit of a learning curve you are able to create and design your own personal user experience for your daily work. Qtile is very well documented. One of the best documentations of all available Window Managers.
docs.qtile.org/en/stable/inde...
The first part of the video is about my personal workflow and in the second part I will share some insight of my Qtile configuration.
gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotf...
My configuration looks a bit like the Hyprland window manager:
• Install HYPRLAND. Base...
Learn how you can use Linux for your work.
Linux is a great Operating System (OS) to support me daily at my business. Linux is stable, fast and you can customize it to individual needs. In this channel, I want to share my setup of Arch Linux and show how I use my system as a daily driver.
My name is Stephan Raabe and I'm a Digital Marketing Professional with more than 20 years of experience in B2B Digital Marketing, computer science and web technologies.
This channel provides tutorials about Linux, the distribution Arch, window managers (e.g. Qtile) and desktop environments, and Microsoft 365 (Office 365) plus other cloud based services that I use in Digital Marketing activities.
Homepage:
www.ml4w.com
My Dotfiles for my Linux configuration:
gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotf...
Arch Installation Script:
gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/arch...
MyChatGPT Python Script:
gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/mych...
00:00 In this video…
01:20 The Qtile Workflow
03:55 Floating Windows
04:45 Outlook, Teams, Brave and ChatGPT
06:00 Windows 11 Virtual Machine
06:45 Qtile configuration

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@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

If you like this video, please subscribe to my channel: 👉 www.youtube.com/@mylinuxforwork/?sub_confirmation=1 Watch the Arch Linux foundation video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y952oapnmJzTYp8.html

@alexcolclough3001 9 ай бұрын

I really love this rice... have switched over to it and made some of my own changes to better suit me, but this is one of the cleanest ive ever seen for qtile.

@mylinuxforwork 9 ай бұрын

Thank you. Have fun with it.

@thesaigoneer 10 ай бұрын

Liked and subscribed! Great vid, and man, I'll have to go through your dots. Super practical things in there. Qtile is still on the wishlist, but I got caught up Hyprland for now. Keep them coming!

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. Have also a video to Hyprland. Install HYPRLAND. Base installation on Arch Linux with Waybar, WOFI, Hyprpaper and KVM/QEMU support kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jJ2eg5CF1JaaY2Q.html

@offensive-operator 10 ай бұрын

years using bspwm and you and your video just made me want to try qtile. it is beautiful

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. Give it a try and test Qtile in a VM. Best way to check if it’s something for you. How’s your experience with bspwm?

@offensive-operator 10 ай бұрын

really good so far but I already have more than 5 years using bspwm I think that's why I want to change LOL @@mylinuxforwork

@gnudoc 10 ай бұрын

Liked and subscribed. Great presentation, thank you. I'll be reading your dotfiles with interest! The right side of your polybar seems very nice.

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. And don’t hesitate to add another commentin case of questions.

@softwarewalaa 2 ай бұрын

Loved Your Work , Literally Very Thankful To You ❤

@mylinuxforwork 2 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@SteDenig 10 ай бұрын

Really great content, perfect presentation. Keep going! Greetings! 👍

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your feedback.

@cyberguy2025 7 ай бұрын

I have been using qtile for some time now, I love the fact that it is minimal and less resource hungry. tbh I love linux anyway regardless of WM, or DE. Awesome video and thank you

@mylinuxforwork 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for your feedback.

@cyberguy2025 7 ай бұрын

@@mylinuxforwork Your welcome

@DangerHiVolt 7 ай бұрын

Simply amazing

@mylinuxforwork 7 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@erichanson5628 10 ай бұрын

Amazing content!

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@brederodes 10 ай бұрын

Great content!

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@NickFields4 10 ай бұрын

I love it, TY ❤

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@jgra_dev 7 ай бұрын

I love it. :)

@mylinuxforwork 7 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@thepathnotfound 10 ай бұрын

Amazing desktop

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@lionux6506 6 ай бұрын

Nice !!

@mylinuxforwork 6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@Jeff_Seely 9 ай бұрын

You're configuration of my favorite window manager is stunningly gorgeous and highly functional. My workflow is the same as yours. I use Outlook, teams, and require Windows 11 to connect to factory automation with proprietary software. All of this looks really suitable! Which base installation distro of arch did you use? Thank you very much for your demonstration and have a good day.

@mylinuxforwork 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. You can just install Arch with the latest ISO.

@garygordonhiggs 10 ай бұрын

I'm curious, I never see any of t he so-called linux pundits using the Qtile widgets for the weather and for the wallpaper.....very easy to settup and use.

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for your feedback. Very good to know.

@abdoulayebalde2139 8 ай бұрын

You have a really nice config file. I love most of the thing you showed. I am using Qtile as well but I am not able to make the scratchpad work. I don't know what's the problem though. Nice work and keep uploading these nice videos. also show us how you integrated windows 11 on this. I really need a full explanation of that please. Thanks in Advance

@mylinuxforwork 8 ай бұрын

Thank you. This is a good starting point: Windows 11 in a LINUX Virtual Machine. Full INSTALLATION Guide. Best integration into LINUX. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jdN2o9qhvJy8m6M.html And also check my other videos about virtualization.

@foxythemes Ай бұрын

Super organized and beautiful setup. Great job! What do you use to show line numbers in vim?

@mylinuxforwork Ай бұрын

I use neovim and here is my config gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles/-/blob/main/nvim/init.vim?ref_type=heads

@patrickprucha5522 7 ай бұрын

Very nice looking and functional. Good Work! It must of taken some type just searching the backgrounds. I would be curious , from start to finish and only time spent on working your customization, how much time it actually took you.

@mylinuxforwork 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much.

@original-bug 7 ай бұрын

Your video was easy to follow and really impressed me. Can you make another one for Debian-based systems, focusing on using Qtile? 😊

@mylinuxforwork 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for your feedback. Debian is not my production platform. But maybe there is a time when I will install it and start some testing.

@micleh 10 ай бұрын

Awesome! Your setup and default shortcuts are very close to how I configured my dwm, but yours is much nicer and more streamlined. I'm very much interested in how you prepare your configuration so that you can push it to gitlab (symbolic links, etc.). I'm a huge fan of reproducibility, since I reinstall systems on different computers frequently. My virt-manager can also be started easily (with win10 or 11) but yours is even more hassle-free. Maybe you can do a video on how you set it up. Thanks for your very useful and streamlined videos.

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. A video about my gitlab setup will definitely come. You can also check the video about my Windows 11 VM: WINDOWS 11 Virtual Machine with USB pass through, SHARED folders & RDP. KVM/QEMU and Virt-Manager kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbx4ntmpnsCwepc.html

@micleh 10 ай бұрын

@@mylinuxforwork Hi. I just posted a comment about my problems with installing qtile via your scripts and dotfiles. I also gave precise information about missing packages, paths, etc. Has the comment been deleted?

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

@@micleh Hi. I see your comment as email notification but not on KZfaq. Maybe the comment is too long. No problem. Let me read it and I’ll come back to you soon.

@micleh 10 ай бұрын

@@mylinuxforwork I didn't know that comments could be too long. Thanks for taking your time.

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

@@micleh just read your long comment. Let me look into my script again. But I‘m planning a video about configuring Qtile from scratch. Plus a follow up video about to backup config files on github/gitlab.

@PLANTROON 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the great qtile demonstration. I'd like to ask - how do you get GPU acceleration in WIndows 11 VM?

@mylinuxforwork 4 ай бұрын

With GPU passthrough. I pass my second GPU Nvidia to the Windows 11 VM.

@PLANTROON 4 ай бұрын

@@mylinuxforworkAh that explains it. Thanks :) no luck for me on Intel Xe laptop. I wanted the same setup as you have with tiling WM and Windows VM, but I had to stick with an old kernel. And upon sleeping and waking up the laptop, it would freeze up when SRIOV was enabled on the iGPU. Proper fixed support for this is supposed to land in kernel 6.8, so hopefully it actually does. Really disappointed with what Intel is doing, but alas, GPU vfio trickery is not meant for consumer-grade hardware.

@MattCamp 8 ай бұрын

fellow Qtiler here.. I like your rice,, gonna have to go take a look at your dotfiles

@mylinuxforwork 8 ай бұрын

Thanks. Have fun with it.

@heinzriemann3213 4 ай бұрын

Ehrenmann.

@mylinuxforwork 4 ай бұрын

👍

@Cmdrlucky8 10 ай бұрын

This is awesome, thank you for sharing! Would mind sharing your configuration and setup for the Windows 11 desktop. Is it a VM or remote desktop?

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

It is a remote desktop into a Virtual Machine with GPU passthrough. Please check my video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7WlramVna3IYqM.html

@bluejay3379 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing. I tried installing through your dotfiles. When I try the startx command it brings me to the default qtile layout and not your config.

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

Hi. My dotfiles will not only work out of the box. You need to install all required applications. Check out also the bash script 01-install.sh. This video is not an installation guide. It’s more a showcase about what’s possible with Qtile. But my dotfiles can be a good orientation. And a Qtile ricing tutorial will follow soon.

@pawan67_ 9 ай бұрын

@@mylinuxforwork Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pawan67/git-folder/dotfiles/qtile/config.py", line 161, in colordict = json.load(open(colors)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/pawan67/.cache/wal/colors.json'

@pawan67_ 9 ай бұрын

@@mylinuxforwork this is causing to not load your config can you share colors.json as well

@mylinuxforwork 9 ай бұрын

@@pawan67_ the file is created dynamically. This is the structure github.com/dylanaraps/pywal/blob/master/pywal/templates/colors.json You can of course add colors manually to the file if you don’t want to use pywal.

@2u263 4 ай бұрын

What is the os Debian Arch Slackware ?

@mylinuxforwork 4 ай бұрын

It's Arch Linux.

@eliasbuschmann1411 4 күн бұрын

0:43 No wonder I couldn't find many rice tutorials for qtile.

@mylinuxforwork 4 күн бұрын

Qtile is very well documented.

@imran8295 5 ай бұрын

Where is battery icon for laptop

@mylinuxforwork 5 ай бұрын

Need to check. Maybe a bug. But you can try to add it in dotfiles/qtile/config.py

@legatto 9 ай бұрын

how can I reset the keymap permanently to us instead of de

@mylinuxforwork 9 ай бұрын

On Hyprland you can change it here gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles/-/blob/main/hypr/hyprland.conf?ref_type=heads . On qtile in the autostart.sh

@jan5504 9 ай бұрын

why it's hard to install the wayland compositor of this wm?

@mylinuxforwork 9 ай бұрын

I cannot answer this question. In my setup I'm using hyprland with Wayland and Qtile as my Xorg backup.

@mariogutierrez4989 4 ай бұрын

Qtile somewhat works with wayland, but the experience is not stable enough to use it as a daily driver.

@kychemclass5850 10 ай бұрын

Do you not 'feel' any issues due to python being an interpreted language and therefore slow? One would think when it comes to OS operation slow things are to be avoided as they are likely to cause bottlenecks?

@mylinuxforwork 10 ай бұрын

No problems at all. Works great.

@kychemclass5850 10 ай бұрын

@@mylinuxforwork Tq for confirming :)

@stephenwilson0386 10 ай бұрын

Compiled languages are a lot faster than Python when it comes to certain software applications, but that's pretty much irrelevant in the context of a window manager.

@kychemclass5850 10 ай бұрын

@@stephenwilson0386 That's an interesting line. But I don't see how a run-time processes run in a WM would run at the same speed as a compiled process in a WM ( &- no matter what the run-time/compiled status of the WM was either). Perhaps the time differences so small timing issues are trivial??

@kyu0114 4 ай бұрын

Hi, I have subscribed to first ever linux related channel! I would love to follow your configuration but the GitLab configuration doesn't seem to be the same as the video. For example, there is no updatewal.sh and color.json is missing and polybar setting is missing from config.py. polybar -r mybar didn't quite work for me so I had to change to polybar mybar -c ~/.config/qtile/dotfiles/polybar/config.ini - however the bar gap seems to be different. When I first open Qtile, qtile default bar is still present. Has polybar been removed from the latest gitlab config.py? Thanks!! The config looks very good and I am desaparate to replicate it.

@mylinuxforwork 4 ай бұрын

Thanks and you're right. Polybar isn't supported anymore in my dotfiles. With the qtile-extra package I could make even better looking status bar. But you can of course install polybar on top and deactive the qtile bar manually.

@stamshem12 4 ай бұрын

is not work on kali linux ? and this is amazing!! :O

@mylinuxforwork 4 ай бұрын

👍

@baumkuchen6543 Ай бұрын

Python is scripting language,

@mylinuxforwork Ай бұрын

👍

@pawan67_ 9 ай бұрын

Hey, I am facing the following error in qtile config, where can i find colors.json i looked into dotfiles couldn't find it there Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pawan67/git-folder/dotfiles/qtile/config.py", line 161, in colordict = json.load(open(colors)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/pawan67/.cache/wal/colors.json'

@mylinuxforwork 9 ай бұрын

Hi. Have you installed and initiated pywal correctly? colors = os.path.expanduser('~/.cache/wal/colors.json') is generated by pywal when a new wallpaper has been set. Please also check scripts/updatewal.sh