i3-EndeavourOS

joekamprad: setup for i3 under EndeavourOS

Tutorial for i3-wm settings:

background handled by nitrogen
gtk3 theme handled by lxappearance-gtk3
Filebrowser = Thunar
default Terminal-Emulator = xfce4-terminal
Text-Editor = xed

Main shortcuts:

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

[mod]+enter = open terminal (xfce4-terminal)
[mod]+w = open Browser (firefox)
[mod]+n = open Filebrowser (thunar)
F9 = app menu (rofi)
$mod+c = close focused app [kill]
Print-key = screenshot (scrot)

default i3-wm keycodes:

https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_default_keybindings

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:

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

application menu (rofi):

color scheme = ~/.Xresources

Notifications are done with dunst:

CONFIG FILE = ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc

If you need to change something to fit your needs start at the full wiki at EndeavourOS wiki page:

https://endeavouros.com/docs/window-tiling-managers/i3-wm/

Tutorial to install EndeavourOS-i3 setup from scratch

for later installs, if you have installed another DE on initial install from the ISO

get the dot files
copy files to the right directories (.config of your user):
copy scripts inside ~/.config/i3/scripts must be executable ! [chmod +x] them please ;)
install needed packages

git clone https://github.com/endeavouros-team/i3-EndeavourOS.git

cd i3-EndeavourOS

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

chmod -R +x ~/.config/i3/scripts (make scripts executable)

cp .Xresources ~/ (needed colorcheme for menu)

install needed apps and programms for i3wm:

sudo pacman -S --needed - < packages-repository.txt

glennular / i3-EndeavourOS