maintainer: joekamprad - setup for i3-wm under EndeavourOS

You can find some details about enhancements and changes on my little blog:

kamprad.net-EneavourOS-i3wm-setup

• 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.

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

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

# 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.

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)

• 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.)

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

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

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

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

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.

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/etc/skel/

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.