Sorry : Scotty.
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evert I'm using Solus Gnome 3.32 edition (this won't apply to Budgie fyi), and I have Gnome Tweaks app installed so I can use Gnome Extensions to alter my Gnome Shell experience. The extension to change the top left from the default which was "Activities" into an icon instead was with the help of this extension located here: Activities Configurator Extension
The extension website comes in handy if you ever need to tweak the desktop. If you change the icon and it doesn't show up, you might have to restart the shell for it to show. Just hit Alt+F2 and then type the letter "r" and hit enter. It's a command to simply reload the desktop, you won't lose any work or anything like that, it's just a quick workaround instead of restarting or logging out and back in to get it to load. Good luck and hope that helps some!
evert / Scotty-Trees Can do it in Budgie's panel/applet settings as well. What icon did you use?
Monsieur_Caillou Would you mind sharing your configs or how to set this up. I've been tempted by i3 many times and this is just another one of those.
Also what apps are they and how do you move the floating windows? With mouse or keyboard shortcut?
Thank you very much.
Justin I used the svg file from here https://getsol.us/branding/
then i used nautilus to show hidden files and navigated to scotty/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/activities-config@nls1729 and dropped any svg or png image in there that i wanted to use
I've also used this blue gnome icon as well from here - https://www.nicepng.com/maxp/u2e6w7u2q8r5w7a9/
Hope that helps!
Scotty-Trees Not for me, just evert.
Thanks again for your help. It all works wonderfull.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
Evert.
Justin That's rofi, that I customized a little bit to look nicer.
Justin Sure, but i don't have dot files on git or anything...is it ok to paste it here? It isn't too long.
beerminer https://hasteb.in and link here.
Justin Here you go: https://hasteb.in/joqeguwi.css
Save as config.rasi and place in .config/rofi in home directory.
I use ctrl+space keybinding with command: rofi -modi drun -show drun
Cheers!
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Justin Would you mind sharing your configs or how to set this up
Sure, it depends on what you want to setup by the way... i3 itself is as easy as a eopkg it i3, but it needs more tools to have common desktop goodies. Of course I'll share my i3 config if you need...
Here are the programs I use with i3 WM:
- Rofi as launcher (see first screenshot)
- Compton for decorations
- Dunst for notifications (see first screenshot in this post)
- Nitrogen for wallpaper
- i3-status for the discrete status bar (bottom right on desktop)
- Glava for audio visualisation
- A bunch of terminal tools (ranger...) and home made scripts
Justin Also what apps are they
Common gtk apps like gedit and nautilus with csd buttons disabled to suit i3 visualy (see screenshots in this post), striped firefox as webbrowser since I do all searches and launch website from the terminal (see second screenshot in this post). The bookmarking website in my previous post is home made webapp, the google window is also firefox.
Justin How do you move the floating windows? With mouse or keyboard shortcut?
Both by the way, it's your choice in i3, pure keyboard or keybord+mouse, in my case I move window by pressing Super key and dragging it. Gtk+3 apps with headerbar like nautilus can be moved regulary in floating mode.
i3 is not in tiling mode on the screenshots because I use floating mode by default and individualy tile apps when I need, for writing or coding...
Here is a screen to demonstrate simple tiling session with firefox and gedit:
Also the gtk theme is my own (a work in progress...), made to suit my minimalistic-psycho-mind 
Feel free to ask for any config, script or advice... (I wrote useful script for managing brghtness, volume, touchpad... for i3)
And have fun 
Monsieur_Caillou Wow, that looks really freakin' neat-o!
Almost make me want to switch to i3 and try a setup like that myself.
Staudey Yeah it's pleasure to use this setup...
Keep in mind that I've added some tweaks to i3 defaults, like gtk theme, firefox via userchrome.css, disabled gtk csd buttons and custom scripts to manage global i3 behaviour that you can't see on the screenshots...
I'm a big fan of budgie, but I admit I really enjoy i3 flexibility and speed. This stuff is really fast! And heavy terminal and keyboard usage is a huge time saving for my daily tasks...
Feel free to ask for any advice...
Monsieur_Caillou Thank you! So many times you ask a user how the configured i3 but get nothing, this is great, detailed and screenshots too. I'll be spinning this up and testing it out on a VM (have borked my main work/primary machine too many times now).