It's Lenovo S340, 14", 64GB SSD, Intel Celeron, 4GB RAM, HD screen.

Edit: Done. I'll update this post with full spec tomorrow when I'm back in front of it. 👌🏼

What are the specs on that Chromebook? I once installed GalliumOS on one. But it seemed to never put out updates.

What is the output of this command:

sudo dmesg -l err

Ha, good catch on the top bar. I didn't even see it.

Idk what more can I say. I was using normaly, few days ago, put into charge and started up in this screen

It's probably not an error, since I can use terminal mode just fine. But its kinda uneficient

I think thats may be the problem. I've done this but didn't work, allways back in this gray screen.

Also update drives in this mode, but doesn't work also

Please give more details is it just new installed system or are u loading from usb thumb?

Looks like you may have, or your computer thinks you have two screens, unplug or simply reboot. You do have a graphical session with top bar with date etc. implying you are not hitting am error.

First thing would be to unplug any peripherals such as USB drives, etc. and reboot. It's possible that the boot sequence was interrupted/redirected to a HDD partition other than the one you want.

Oh no!

Edit: You uave brought pedanticness, rather than value to the discussion. You can do better.

i3wm basically does run “on top” or rather mixed in

That's not the same

Last time I set it up, i3wm basically does run "on top" or rather mixed in with componenets of other desktop environments.

Tehnically, one can run i3wm alone, but really, it wants a bunch of parts from another desktop environment to be loaded, and it's not particularly opinionated about which ones.

If I recall correctly, picking it (a friendly i3wm meta-package) on Ubuntu gave me i3wm with a bunch of pieces of Mate pre-loaded to fill in the edges.

The previous time I set up i3wm, there was no friendly package (yes, I'm old), so I looked up the names of about a dozen Gnome services and applets, and added them to the i3wm config to launch them on i3wm start-up.

(Edit: missed an important not)

Linux Mint does not support i3, if you use it, you will be much on your own. These distros support i3 officially: https://distrowatch.com/search.php?desktop=i3#simple

cinnamon and installed i3 on top

How does that work? Cinnamon has its own WM, you can't run another "on top".

Exact steps & description that led to your current setup please.

I think I've used Double Commander, as well. I really liked it!

It was great for bulk actions, if I recall.

i3wm is my favorite window manager, but I find I can get a good 90% out of either Gnome or KDE Plasma, with a bit of settings fiddling.

I think I added "Metacity" plugin to Gnome, to get proper tiling. It was okay.

In KDE Plasma, I just poke the settings to maximize windows by default, and enable keyboard shifting windows into half screen increments.

It's an annoying compromise, but it's nice not to have all the jank that comes with tuning my i3wm setup to add basic features that KDE Plasma ships with.

Edit: And I'll be reading along, hoping someone else has a better answer than mine!

I do have a recommendation: Double Commander, but I haven't used it much.

That's a valid crit. I was thinking about the end goal while typing the title, and ended up with that mess. Fixed for future readers.

As was mentioned, you can bookmark them, and then rearrange the bookmarks.

Also, it's likely the drives can be renamed, if you think of an alphabetical naming scheme that gets the order you want.

Also, don't forget that you have the option to add a separate file manager, if Nemo doesn't quite fit your preference. I don't have a recommendation though - I really like Nemo.

"How do I" is a question, "How to" is an explanation.

Sorry, pet peeve.

i think it's just alphabetical. you can pin a bookmark to isolate some under a different sidebar heading, though, and bookmarked items there can be re-arranged.

The command I used before changing the defaults was this sync && watch -d grep -e Dirty: -e Writeback: /proc/meminfo

That should show you the progress. It should be going down as it is being written to disk.

Less, I also have this but with different numbers. The simplified answer is that the transfer speed that you are seeing isn't the actual speed that it is transferring to the disk in the first place. Instead it is the speed of it being cached into ram, before tapering off to actual write speeds. The defaults work on most machine, but there isn't a one size fits all value. You may find that playing around with those numbers causes more stable write speeds because it will force the system to actually write the data to the usb stick instead of letting large amounts of data cache into ram before actually writing it out to disk. This is often the reason why when it says it is done writing it isn't actually done writing and you have to wait some minutes on some systems to be able to eject. In fact, a lot of times on machines that experience this problem. Hitting the safely eject button is what forces it to immediately write all data to disk.

I believe there was an article about it that I can't seem to recall the name of, but I believe it was something along the lines of "your operating system is lying to you" or something like that.