weilbith / i3-utils

Utility scripts for the i3 tiling window manager

DEPRACTED! Migrated into custom AUR.

i3 Utils

Utility scripts for the i3 tiling window manager.

Installation

Simply clone this repository and add the script to your $PATH. Alternatively on Arch Linux you use the PKGBUILD to install it as a package. This is not available as AUR, since it is too personal and does therefore not fulfill the requirements.

git clone https://github.com/weilbith/i3-utils.git /tmp/i3-utils
cd /tmp/i3-utils
makepkg --syncdeps --install

Selections in a menu

Some of the scripts provide a list of options to the user he can select form. Therefore the dmenu command is used. Therefore the origin dmenu can be used. The more favorable and recommended alternative is rofi. It supports a compatibility command to mimic dmenu. You can select one of them as optional dependency if you use the package installation approach.

Utilities

i3-goto-mark

Opens a menu to select from all marked windows. Jumps to the window with the selected mark.

Requirements:

• i3-msg
• dmenu (or alternative)

i3-win-info

Prints a list of information for the clicked window. Useful to find unique descriptions to define for_window statements or command criteria in the i3 configuration. Though not all criteria are supported.

Requirements:

• xwininfo
• xprop

i3-lock

Looks the screen with predefined settings and a given background image. Uses the forked version of the locker, called i3lock-color. Expects the first argument to be a path to an image to use as wallpaper. Else it defaults to $HOME/images/wallpapers/wallpaper.png.

Attention: Notice the intended slightly difference between the original command i3lock and this here i3-lock. Related to the note below.

Note: This script is pretty much opinionated expect the image path.

Requirements:

• i3lock-color