01:20 <sleeves> Hi! I'm enjoying river thus far, but I'm a little confused about setting session-wide environment variables. I searched the provided chat archive and saw many people saying to set the variables *before* starting river, but how should I go about doing that? Is there a specific file I should shove them in or should I make my own shell script to do everything? I'm on void if that's relevant, been starting from TTY

07:48 <tiosgz> sleeves: depends on your situation. it doesn't hurt (and i recommend) to create a wrapper script that sets the environment you need and starts river. another option is shell startup files for stuff you want even in the tty (IF these files are used)

07:48 <tiosgz> or one can use pam config files as well

14:22 <Vartroc> guys, I have a problem: I cant get this alternate keyboard to load. (https://www.neo-layout.org/Layouts/mine/ link to keyboard).  It thankfully provides an xkb file, so I thought "nice, I can just do a quick `riverctl keyboard-layout-file /home/andi/.config/river/mine`" (I have downloaded the file and moved it to /home/andi/.config/river/mine but

14:22 <Vartroc> I still get a `error: cannot parse file` What am I doing wrong here?

15:00 <leon-p> Vartroc: the kayboard-layout-file expects complete keyboard layouts. this layout is not complete, it includes an existing one an overrides it

15:00 <leon-p> you should probably just follow the installation instructions on the website

15:01 <leon-p> alternatively, there is also a dir spec for storing xkb layouts in your ~, which you likely can find documented somewhere

15:41 <lark> how i can configure workspaces?

16:33 <leon-p> lark: could you specify your question? I have no clue what you are exactually trying to ask for

18:50 <vim1729> recently when i login to river, app the programs are being opeaned in floating mode, and Super Space doesnt work, but they are all tiled again when i reload the config.. what could be causing this?

18:53 <leon-p> vim1729: sounds like the layout generator not being launched on river startup

18:54 <leon-p> when you run the init script again (there is no reloading) it then launches it

18:55 <leon-p> so make sure there isn't anything in your init that might block; remember it's just a shell script, everything that would block a sh script will block your init

18:56 <vim1729> leon-p thank you i will recheck my init file :)

19:08 <leon-p> the more of these come up, the more I am convinced that my WM won't have an init, but either a regular config or a scheme script

19:27 <vim1729> leon-p , i use lswt and wlopm often, i want to use the wm u will create.

19:29 <leon-p> all in time, it'll be there when the WM protocol PR hits master