Neofetch, layout and .bashrc for i3wm on debian 12

[nickgismokato]

Hey i3 community. I'm a new user of i3. I have used Debian for almost 6 years now and have recently got a new laptop, which I installed Debian 12 and i3 on. I have a problem with loading neofetch when I'm starting up. When I'm putting the command neofetch in .bashrc at the end , then I'm missing characters when i3-sensible-terminal is invoked at startup. A snippet of the output:

       _,met$$$$$gg.          nickgismok
    ,g$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$P.       ----------
  ,g$$P"     """Y$$.".        OS: Debian
 ,$$P'              `$$$.     Host: 21JN
',$$P       ,ggs.     `$$b:   Kernel: 6.
`d$$'     ,$P"'   .    $$$    Uptime: 21
 $$P      d$'     ,    $$P    Packages:
 $$:      $$.   -    ,d$$'    Shell: bas
 $$;      Y$b._   _,d$P'      Resolution
 Y$$.    `.`"Y$$$$P"'         WM: i3
 `$$b      "-.__              Theme: Mat
  `Y$$                        Icons: ePa
   `Y$$.                      Terminal:
     `$$b.                    CPU: 13th Gen Intel i
       `Y$$b.                 GPU: Intel Raptor Lak
          `"Y$b._             Memory: 4335MiB / 156
              `"""

So it only output 40 characters, except at the end where I get 51 characters. So since wanted a specific loadout i decided just to load it in a script /home/$USER/i3project/load_layout.sh. This is my script:

#!/bin/bash
# First we append the saved layout of workspace N to workspace M
i3-msg "workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 1; append_layout ~/.config/i3/workspace_1.json"
#i3-msg 'rename workpace 1 to "1:  Main"'
(i3-sensible-terminal -e neofetch &)
(i3-sensible-terminal -e bashtop &)
(i3-sensible-terminal &)

Also I have now removed the neofetch command from .bashrc. The i3-sensible-terminal without neofetch is loading normally and the same with the terminal with bashtop. But the terminal with neofetch gives me this following output at startup:

[class="^Zutty$" title="^nickgismokato@Nickgismokato\:\ \~$" machine="^Nickgismokato"]

My worspace ~/.config/i3/workspace_1.json was made with the help of the archwiki guide. Specificaly the section 5.3 as I provided with the link.

Also since using the layout, my naming in my status bar is no longer what I wrote in the ~/.config/i3/config as set $ws1 "1:  Main" where  is a icon from nerdfonts. Now it just shows 1. My other workspaces is still showing normally. I'm loading my load_layout.sh in the ~/.config/i3/config with the following command:

exec_always --no-startup-id /home/$USER/i3project/load_layout.sh

This is a problem I have tried solving the last 2 days but I have to admit that I'm not experienced enough with a window manager to fully understand what is going on "behind the scenes" so to speak. Hope you guys can help me.

EDIT:

I found the problem for title names not showing up for my workspacce 1 after i use my /home/$USER/i3project/load_layout.sh. I changed:

i3-msg 'rename workpace 1 to "1:  Main"' -> i3-msg 'rename workspace 1 to "1:  Main"'

So i just need to learn to spell. Still haven't fixed my .bashrc and neofetch problem.

[nickgismokato]

Solution

I found the solution. The problem is that when I called the terminal i3-sensible-terminal, it firstly opened a second terminal and then it got resigned to the correct placement as defined within my /home/$USER/i3project/load_layout.sh.

The solution was to create some sleep 0.5 between all my terminals. Also installing fastfetch helped me get the sleep time down. Then I just added fastfetch to my .bashrc. Haven't been able to get my -e fastfetch or -e neofetch to work still, but this is a satisfying conclusion to it.

Here is my new /home/$USER/i3project/load_layout.sh:

#!/bin/bash

# First we append the saved layout of workspace N to workspace M
i3-msg "workspace --no-auto-back-and-forth 1; append_layout ~/.config/i3/workspace_1.json"
i3-msg 'rename workspace  1 to "1:  Main"'

sleep 1
(i3-sensible-terminal &)
sleep 0.5
(i3-sensible-terminal -e bashtop &)
sleep 0.5
(i3-sensible-terminal  &)

Last note is that I could probably get the time in sleep down a lot, but I'm happy with the load time.