How do you get the scratchpad?

[aasutossh]

I don't get the scratchpad thing. For $mod+a you have mentioned scratchpad, and I don't have anything named that. Tried searching in aur but no luck.

[ghost]

@drdonkey Well, $mod+a should open an instance of R, and uses the scratchpad for closing that instance (it actually hides it, for reusability).
If you need to get to the scratchpad you must bind a command to get there through the i3 config (e.g. add bindsym $mod+minus scratchpad show to make $mod and - take you to the scratchpad).
The i3 config is located in ~/.config/i3/config.

[LukeSmithxyz]

If you're trying to say that nothing happens when you press mod+a while using my configuration, this is likely because it is not spawn because you don't have R installed, which as voidanix said, is what the scratchpad uses.

Either install R or go into the config and change the line that spawns the R calculator to Python or some other interactive shell that can be used for math.

[aasutossh]

R means R "the programming language"??

[ghost]

Yea, R is an interpreted language and is mostly used for creating statistics. It's a very useful tool.

If you used LARBS, then R should be already installed.