Dotfiles for my i3wm config. These can be annoyingly long and dull, because it's also a reminder of how I set them up to myself. Hope you find them useful in some way.
- Title
- Table of contents
- Screenshots
- Colorschemes
- Programs
- Installation/setup
- Input device tweak
- Some detaild processes
- Fonts
- Text editors
- Polybar
- Spotify
- clash for windows
- Todos
- Credits
My custom grub theme
Just a tweaked version of dracula grub, check out mine here
My custom lightdm login screen
Minimal login screen, I made this. Check it out here
None of the actual art work is mine, you can check them out in the credits section.
| Custom Grub theme | Custom lightdm theme |
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| System info | Web Browser |
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| Music | Coding |
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Photo processing
- Primary: TokyoNight
- Secondary: Dracula
- Tertiary: Gruvbox
Used to love Nord, then realise the low contrast is hurting my eyes, switch to TokyoNight. Wherever TokyoNight is unavailable I'd use Dracula. If neither are available I use Gruvbox.
Making a colorscheme takes too much work and I'm too lazy for that.
- Colorscheme: TokyoNight
- OS: Arch Linux
- Machine: 2020 13.3" Razer Blade Stealth
- Terminal: kitty/ xterm
- Terminal Prompt: robbyrussell
- Login manager: lightdm
- WM: i3-gaps
- Status bar: polybar
- Fetch: neofetch/macchina
- Launcher: rofi
- Sys monitor: btop/gotop
- Notification: dunst
- Text editor: vim/ lunarvim
- Code editor: vs code/ vscodium
- Image viewer: feh/ sxiv
- Music player: spotify
- Video player: haruna
- Vrowser: google-chrome-stable
- File manager: pcmanfm/nautilus
- File sync/transfer: warpinator/syncthing
I like simple and clean setup, so I got rid of fancy wallpaper transparency and blur all together so I can focus more on what I'm currently working on or enjoying.
(I've tried dwm, awesome and hyprland, but i3 is just too comfortable to tweak around, I might eventually switch to hyprland though, the animations are just too good)
I would advise against copying and pasting all my config blindly. It's better to just pick and choose what you might find to your liking, that's how I built mine.
But if you like to try them out and are willing to take the time to fix whatever might be broken in my config, here's what I would do.
- clone this repo
cd
git clone https://github.com/mino29/arch-i3.git- install all the packages (some maybe unnecessary)
cd ~/arh-i3/programs
paru -S -< packages.list --noconfirm --needed- fix whatever might be broken yourself, and good Luck!
I prefer:
- reverse/natural scrolling
- single click to left click
- double finger click to right click
- no tapping
autotiling
[i3 autotiling] (https://github.com/nwg-piotr/autotiling)
In your i3 config ~/.config/i3/config
add this line
exec_always --no-startup-id autotiling -l 2
the -l 2 flag is to emulate dwm's master stack layout which I quite like,
it's optional.
swallow firefox
swallow spotifyswallow i3-swallow
pip install --user i3-swallow -U
Prefix whatever program you want to run with swallow
swallow spotifyIn my use I found it's best to not combine it with i3's assigning window to workspace or autotiling. Apparently it's not 100% working with every other program window either.
I just use it to open image viewer such as feh.
I have alias feh=swallow feh . -. in my .zshrc
Which just means hide current terminal window temporarily and open all images files in the current directory with image size all fit window.
Terrible description, but really useful alias.
countdown-cli
a neat little count down tool
export RELEASE="1.0.0"
wget https://github.com/antonmedv/countdown/releases/download/v$RELEASE/countdown_linux_amd64 -O countdown
chmod +x countdown
sudo mv countdown /usr/local/binusage:
countdown 5s
countdown 10m
Hack Nerd Font is my favorite, I even use it on my windows gaming rig
places where you have to manually set font
- terminal:
- kitty (~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf)
- xterm (~/.Xresources)
- gui widgets: lxappearance
- status bar: polybar
- code editor: vscode/ vscodium
- browser: google-chrome humble-new-tab-page
vim
I forked a "minimal_vim", which is cross platform, (neo)vim compatible, dependency free config that you can bascially use anywhere.
It's simple, speedy and pretty good-looking. (uses gruvbox colorscheme)
lunarvim
It's the most beautiful and functional neovim distribution that I ever used. The maintainer Chris streams sometimes, I learned a lot from his neovim from scratch youtube series.
vscodium
The only gui text editor that I use, has similar keybinds to my minimal vim config. Nothing special.
This section might be extremely long, I had most fun tinkering polybar while ricing.
It might seem that I made this bar super huge when in reality it's just a floating one, it has space on 4 sides, then I made it has the same background color as the wallpaper, so it has this borderless look.
You might not like this top-bezel looking setup, but my latop has a pretty signifiant bottom bezel, so this setup on my machine is pretty balanced visually as a whole.
Here are my end goals for this polybar setup:
- Minimalistic
- Productivity and efficiency focused
I've these rules for myself:
- No more than 4 colors (unimportant, important, alert and system tray icon color)
- Every module should be clickable
- Modules should be properly spaced out without an ugly underline or a square
- Just the essential stats, I don't want to know how many ram or cpu cores or storage I'm using.
- Just show the important part of the window title, never the full long one, it' will only clutter the status bar.
Just download spicetify and do a simple theme swap, met some problems but the official documentation was really helpful.
Here are the commands that I run:
paru -S spicetify-cli spicetify-themes-git --noconfirmFollow the official doc, I did:
sudo chmod a+wr /opt/spotify\
sudo chmod a+wr /opt/spotify/Apps -RThen I did:
spicetify config
spicetify backup apply
spicetify config current_theme Glaze
spicetify config color_scheme DarkFinally
spicetify applyVoila!
It fits my setup pretty good (could be darker, but good enough)
| Glaze Dark (spicetify) |
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First run of virtual box, it'll prompt "Fail to access the USB subsystem..."
run the following command should solve it
sudo usermod -aG vboxusers $USERthen reboot to take effect
- reduce or eliminate transparency in custom rofi theme
- volumne changing is bit laggy
- reduce the footprint of clash/clash-verge/clash-for-windows
- configure all color in one place for easy configurability
- laptop don't got go sleep when lid closed
- setup functional rofi powermenu
- setup rofi/buku_run with a proper theme
- modify zsh prompt theme to be more git friendly
- telegram doesn't work
- signal doesn't work
- rofi menu to show current opened webtabs/bookmarks/search/url field (bind to super+b)