10:24 <felixdv> Hello, I've only used GNOME on Linux, so far, and I've tried installing river, but when I connect into it, I only have an empty screen with no way to interact with anything. The doc doen't explain how to get started either

10:31 <novakane> felixdv: have a look at the example config and be sure to have a config installed in the right place

10:32 <felixdv> Why isn't such a config installed along river?

10:32 <felixdv> It's a bit surprising for a newcomer to see nothing

10:34 <waleee> a lot of people prefer the distributions package manager to not mess with your home directory

10:36 <waleee> the middle way would possibly be to create a config at first start in some sort of guided configuration that queries you for eg the terminal to use etc

10:38 <waleee> felixdv: ... but for about 100% of x11 window managers/wayland compositors that isn't desktop environments, the tradition is that the user has to do some reading up regarding usage and configuration

10:39 <felixdv> Oh, OK, that makes sense. I'll download the config and see if I can do something with it.

10:40 <novakane> felixdv: also I don't know if you installed from distro package or build from the lastest master but be sure to look at the example of the version you have

10:41 <novakane> i.e don't use the config from master if you have installed river 0.2.4

10:43 <felixdv> I have the 0.2.1 from the Fedora repos. Maybe I should build from master. It's written in zig, right? It shouldn't be hard to build.

10:44 <felixdv> At least easier than a C or C++ one. I never could build a single open-source project in these languages, despite following the doc to the letter

10:47 <novakane> oh yeah 0.2.1 is really outdated if you can build it from master it would be better

10:49 <felixdv> Thanks for the help, I'll bother you again if I cannot have something working :P

13:21 <Endermen1094> problem while compiling river i get this error https://bpa.st/5K6A

13:23 <Endermen1094> i am on gentoo amd64 using zig-bin instead of the zig package that it reccemends as i don't have the time to compile it natively

13:25 <novakane> Endermen1094: river 0.2.4 needs zig 0.10

13:26 <Endermen1094> mv lig version is 0.11.0

13:26 <Endermen1094> &zig

13:27 <Endermen1094> **zig version

13:30 <novakane> yes you can't use zig 0.11 with river 0.2.4

13:32 <novakane> either use zig 0.10 or use the master branch of river

17:40 <Cornelius-Figgle> not sure where to ask this question, but I will go with here

17:41 <Cornelius-Figgle> I am playing Spotify via the Brave browser (Chromium-based) and wish to bind keys to control this playback

17:41 <Cornelius-Figgle> however playerctl doesn't seem to find the player

17:41 <Cornelius-Figgle> am I missing a variable or something?

17:42 <Cornelius-Figgle> Launching river with just "river" in the TTY and Brave via its binary

17:43 <Cornelius-Figgle> no other variables have been set by me

17:43 <Cornelius-Figgle> do I need to change how I am launching either river or Brave?