endeavouros-i3wm-setup

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

Tutorial for i3-wm settings:

• background handled by feh
• 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 EndeavourOS i3-wm keycodes:

Keybindings are different from the i3 defaults to fit into the setup.

There are 2 tools that helps you to check them:

The keyboard icon on panel open a little GUI helper and by pressing [F1]

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:

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

cd endeavouros-i3wm-setup

2. copy files to the right directories (.config of your user):

cp .Xresources ~/.Xresources

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

3. Scripts inside ~/.config/i3/scripts must be executable:

chmod -R +x ~/.config/i3/scripts

4. set theming for xed texteditor:

dbus-launch dconf load / < xed.dconf

5. install needed packages:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/endeavouros-team/EndeavourOS-packages-lists/master/i3

sudo pacman -S --needed - < i3

or use the packages tool from our repo: eos-packagelist --install "i3-Window-Manager"

Use the i3_install script from the git for automatic install it to your users home: This script will setup configurations needed and install all needed packages:

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

warning i3_install will overwrite existing files Make sure you backup users configs before running it on your own.

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