i3 Configuration

Requirements

general

  • i3 - window manager
  • i3status - status bar
  • feh - setting bg, also nice image viewer
  • pulseaudio - audio managment
  • dmenu - Super-P launcher
  • pavucontrol - pulseaudio mixer
  • alsamixer
  • scrot - screenshots
  • acpi - for volume infos
  • conky - better sys informations
  • jq - for parse weather info
  • bc - for calculating current brightness level

from xorg

  • setxkbmap - setting keyboard layout

##Installation It's as simple as that:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/giacomos/i3wm-config.git .i3
ln -s .i3/i3status.conf ~/.i3status.conf
ln -s .i3/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
ln -s .i3/xinitrc ~/.xsession
cd .i3
ln -s config_work_laptop config

Create a new file /usr/share/xsessions/custom.desktop with:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Xsession
Exec=/etc/X11/Xsession

You should now have a new session option during login, Xsession will load the user's ~/.xsession file