endeavouros-i3wm-setup

maintainer: joekamprad ---> setup for i3-wm under EndeavourOS new config 2022 <---

Tutorial for i3-wm settings:

• background handled by nitrogen
• gtk3 theme handled by lxappearance-gtk3
• Filebrowser = Thunar
• default Terminal-Emulator = xfce4-terminal
  • This is set also inside ~/.profile (export TERMINAL=xfce4-terminal) so remind to change it there too if you want to change4 default terminal.
• Text-Editor = xed
• dex : autostarting apps from /etc/xdg/autostart/ (*)
• Notifications are done with dunst: CONFIG FILE = ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc

dex is enabled by default in config to autostart like on a DE. To disable, comment out the line:

exec --no-startup-id dex --autostart --environment i3

inside ~/.config/i3/config.

Main shortcuts:

[mod] key is set to the win-key (or should i call it linkey?)

default i3-wm keycodes:

https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_default_keybindings

Display setup with arandr

• open arandr and setup display/s as you need.
• save the setup from arandr menu or button exactly with filename monitor. ---> on i3 EndeavourOS we have a starter line in the ~/.config/i3/config

# start a script to setup displays
# put `monitor.sh` into the location specified by this line:
exec --no-startup-id ~/.screenlayout/monitor.sh

this will handle to set display on each login. alternatively, you could manually make a script with xrandr.

Tiling:

is set to default for i3wm and can be changed to:

• stacking: Only the focused window in the container is displayed. You get a list of windows at the top of the container.

• tabbed: so each new window will open fullscreen as a tab, you can change between window-tabs with mouse or shortcut: [mod]+Left focus left (left arrow key) [mod]+Right focus right (right arrow key)

i3blocks:

• pulseaudio (mousewheel volume level, rightclick open pulseaudio control)
• weather (openweather you need to get city code and apikey first [adding it to ~/.config/i3/scripts/openweather.sh]) get your api key here: https://openweathermap.org/appid and City code: https://openweathermap.org/find?q= (search your city and take the city code from the url in your browser [7 numbers at the end of the url])
• tray-icons (showing network-manager and update-icon)
• logout button (poweroff, logout, suspending, hibernate e.t.c.)

panel bar (i3-blocks):

• CONFIG FILE = ~/.config/i3/i3blocks.conf

Logout Menu (rofi):

• CONFIG FILE = ~/.config/i3/scripts/powermenu

application menu (rofi):

• rofi color-schemes: ~/.config/rofi/arc_dark_transparent_colors.rasi

power-profiles handler menu:

• let you easely switch powermodes from the i3-bar.

theming/colorshemes:

for rofi menus (application menu and Logout menu):

They can be adjust and chenged inside ~/.config/rofi directory:

Configurations for the menus:

• ~/.config/rofi/rofidmenu.rasi
• ~/.config/rofi/powermenu.rasi

colorschemes:

• ~/.config/rofi/arc_dark_transparent_colors.rasi
• ~/.config/rofi/arc_dark_colors-ori.rasi

colors are in rgba calling transparency in the last colum:

rgba ( 26, 28, 35, 100 % )

General theming // gtk3 and icons:

• ~/.config/gtk-3.0
• ~/.Xresources
  There is installed where you can browse and set GTK3 theme, icons and Xcursortheme.
  But Xcursor needs to be set inside the ~/.Xresources manually if you change it in LXAppearance to get applied for all apps.

Tutorial to install EndeavourOS-i3 setup from scratch

for later installs, if you have installed another DE on initial install from the ISO

1. get the dot files
2. copy files to the right directories (.config of your user):
3. copy scripts inside ~/.config/i3/scripts must be executable ! [chmod +x] them please ;)
4. install needed packages

git clone https://github.com/endeavouros-team/endeavouros-i3wm-setup.git

cd endeavouros-i3wm-setup

cp .Xresources ~/.Xresources

cp -R .config/* ~/.config/

chmod -R +x ~/.config/i3/scripts (make scripts executable)

dbus-launch dconf load / < xed.dconf (setup xed-editor)

install needed apps and programms for i3wm: We do use now the default packages lists repo for all packages lists:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/endeavouros-team/EndeavourOS-packages-lists/master/i3 sudo pacman -S --needed - < i3

or use the i3_install:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/endeavouros-team/endeavouros-i3wm-setup/main/i3_install

warning this will may overwrite existing files!

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