Dotfiles

Table of contents

• Overview
• Examples
• Configs
• Requirements
• Key Bindings
• Setup

Overview

This is my config for i3wm, the tiling window manager I have running on Ubuntu. Some of the config files, however, may be used on GNU/Linux systems that don't have i3wm, such as the compton config and the rofi config. Note

• $mod key is Mod1 (Alt on most keyboards)
  • change this to Mod4 for Windows key on most keyboards
• capslock is configured to act as backspace
  • delete line 221 in the config file if you don't want this admittedly odd configeration
• the i3wm default j-k-l-; movement keys are configured to the more Vim-familiar h-j-k-l

Examples

Screenshot of window manager on dual screen setup

launching FireFox in rofi

Screenshot of terminal in the ~/documents/programming folder

Configs

i3wm

• Files for styling and key bindings
• i3blocks config file

Picom

• Composition manager config file
  • For screen tearing, window compositing, and blur/transparency effects

Rofi

• Mojave theme

Vim

• Vim bundled with Vundle and YouCompleteMe autocomplete

Bash

• Styled and key bindings
  • "c" command cd's into a directory and runs ls

Requirements

The config file references the following programs:

• i3blocks
  • a feed generator for status bars
    • required for the status bar
    • i3blocks.conf is the associated config file
• Compton
  • a compositor for X11
    • required for blur effect on windows
    • bonus works well at fixing screen tearing issues
• Rofi
  • a window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
    • required for launching applications The following programs are referenced in the config file as a shortcut
• Ranger
  • file manager for the console
• amixer
  • volume control
• Firefox
• Chrome

Key Bindings

Key	Purpose
$mod + (1-9,0)	Switch to workspaces with number 1-10
$mod + Shift + (1-9,0)	Move the container to the workspaces with number 1-10
$mod + h (j, k, l)	focus left (down, up, right) window
$mod + Shift + h (j, k, l)	move focused window left (down, up, right)
$mod + r , (h, j, k, l)	enter resize mode , (shrink width, grow width, shrink height, grow height)
$mod + Return	terminal
$mod + Shift + r	Restart I3 inplace
$mod + Shift + e	exit i3 (logs you out of your X session)
$mod + r	Activate resize mode
$mod + space	Change focus between tiling and floating windows
$mod + Shift + space	Toggle floating status of the focused container
$mod + a	focus the parent container
$mod + d	focus the child container
$mod + e	Toggle the layout of the focused container
$mod + h	Split the current container horizontally
$mod + v	Split the current container vertically
$mod + f	Fullscreen mode for the focused container
$mod + q	Lock the system
Middle Mouse Button	Kill the focused window
$mod + shift + q	Kill the focused window
$mod + shift + x	lock computer
$mod + i	launch Firefox
$mod + m	mute
$mod + ,	decrease volume
$mod + .	increase volume
$mod + /	max volume
$mod + Delete	shutdown
$mod + End	reboot
$mod + Page Down	exit i3

Setup

Backup your existing i3 config :) Move the .config/ contents into the ~/.config folder.
Move .vim/ folder, .vimrc, and .bashrc into the home directory.

git clone https://github.com/Alex0Blackwell/i3wm.git
cd dotfiles/
mv .config/* ~/.config
mv .vim/ .vimrc .bashrc ~/

Install dependencies

License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.