/BB-Droid-Arch-Rice

An Arch Linux rice with i3wm and super minimal applications.

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BB-Droid-Arch-Rice

An Arch Linux rice with i3wm and super minimal applications.

How it looks like? Screenshot 1

Install Arch Linux

Follow the official Arch wiki installation guide.

Install necessary packages such as Xorg, Display Manager, Network Manager etc.

I personally don't use a display manager. I simply do startx.

Install i3wm and other additional packages

Install i3wm
sudo pacman -S i3-wm dunst i3lock i3status
Install some other additional packages as described here.
sudo pacman -S compton hsetroot rxvt-unicode xsel rofi xsettingsd lxappearance scrot viewnior

Setting wallpaper

Right click and save this wallpaper. Place it on ~/Pictures/Wallpapers/ This wallpaper is from wallhere.com wallpaper

Copy configurations

git clone https://github.com/EnigmaticJihad/BB-Droid-Arch-Rice.git

DO NOT JUST COPY THE CONFIGURATION. GO THROUGH THE CONFIGURATION TO FIGURE OUT WHAT BEST FOR YOU

Themeing & Icons

Themeing

Simply copy the oomox-bb-droid theme into your ~/.themes directory and apply with lxapprearence.

Icons

One of the best icon theme i found out there is Simply Circle Icon Theme Just Clone and place it into your ~/.icons directory.

git clone https://github.com/ju1464/Simply_Circles_Icons.git && cd Simply_Circles_Icon_Theme-master && cp Simply-* ~/.icons

Colorscheme

to generate the colorscheme from wallpaper I used Pywal

Install Pywal

You should have python 3.5 or above.

sudo pacman -S feh imagemagick python-pip python-pywal
Using Pywal
wal -i ~/Pictures/Wallpapers/bb-droid.jpg

You can generate colorscheme from any pictures.

Font

I used the Overpass font for my entire system (including gtk applications). Powerline patched font for terminal

Install Overpass font
yay -S otf-overpass

List of applications

Enjoy

I didn't mess up with the default keybindings. It's upto you. Thank you!