i3

Dependencies on Debian 10

xcompmgr: composite manager for shadows and transparency
imagemagick: screenshot creator
xclip: clipboard manager for sending screenshot to clipboard
pulseaudio-utils: Sound system for POSTIX OSes qlipper: cliboard manager terminator: My lovly terminal

sudo apt install i3 xorg suckless-tools slim imagemagick \
                 qlipper pulseaudio-utils terminator galculator 
sudo cp slim/slim.conf /etc/slim/

Setup

feh-rand: same as feh but use a url to fetch random wallpapers. copy it to system PATH (/usr/local/bin).
i3lock-rand: lock i3 with random images from a path. copy it to system PATH.
i3config: my personal i3 config file. copy it to ~/.config/i3/config (Debian) or ~/.i3/config (Ubuntu).
volume: volume control script. copy it to /usr/local/bin.

custom shortcuts:

Super + Shift + f: execute mozilla firefox
Super + PrintScreen: create a screenshot and save it to Pictures/date.jpg
Super + Shift + PrintScreen: create a screenshot and send it to clipboard
Super + Esc: focus on child
Super + Space: change keyboard layout
i3status.conf: custom i3 bar status. this file auto loaded if you copy it to ~/.i3status.conf
Xresources: some custom config for better font rendering. copy it to ~/.Xresources and restart your X session.
xorg.conf.d: this directory contains some config files for device input management like synaptic touchpad manager (tap to click, two finger tap to right click) and etc. copy this folder to /etc/X11/ and restart your X session.

Keyboard layout

Edit file /etc/default/keyboard:

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us,ir"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle"

BACKSPACE="guess"

And then, to deploy config just run

udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change

Touchpad Setting

If there is laptop and using touchpad, need to make a directory and a simple configuration file:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
sudo touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-touchpad.conf

Then paste these lines in the file:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Driver "libinput"
        Option "Tapping" "on"
EndSection

Thanks to Cody Craven

Sound Setting

https://askubuntu.com/a/14083/25025

i3lock with clock

To isntall i3lock with showing clock refer to:

https://github.com/Lixxia/i3lock

See the i3lock home page.

Requirements

pkg-config
libxcb
libxcb-util
libpam-dev
libcairo-dev
libxcb-xinerama
libxcb-randr
libev
libx11-dev
libx11-xcb-dev
libxkbcommon >= 0.5.0
libxkbcommon-x11 >= 0.5.0

Building i3lock

We recommend you use the provided package from your distribution. Do not build i3lock unless you have a reason to do so.

First install the dependencies listed in requirements section, then run these commands (might need to be adapted to your OS):

autoreconf --force --install

rm -rf build/
mkdir -p build && cd build/

../configure \
  --prefix=/usr \
  --sysconfdir=/etc \
  --disable-sanitizers

make

Screenshots

Idle

Key Press

i3lockmore

Thanks to https://github.com/SammysHP/i3lockmore, By this command we can lock the screen with some effects on i3lock background image.

i3lockmore --image-fill /home/picture/back.jpg

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