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