fonts

pacman -S extra/adobe-source-code-pro-fonts emacs is already configured to use the font

colors

download http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

terminal:

copy Xresources from solarized to: ~/.Xresources

emacs

evertyhing should be checked in

wm

i3

to startup i3 when xorg starts, edit ~/.xinitrc at the end of the file add: exec i3

launcher

could not get dmenu to work. Use bash run instead. Install with pacman -S bashrun

edit ~/.i3/config and replace the dmenu line with: bindsym $mod+d exec bashrun

i3bar

To get the current spotify song playing change ~/.i3/config

these lines at bottom: bar { status_command ~/.bin/my_i3status.sh }

my_i3status.sh: #!/bin/sh

i3status | while : do read line spot=$(xprop -name “Spotify Premium - Linux Preview” _NET_WM_ICON_NAME|cut -d “"” -f 2|cut -b 11-|awk - F ” w ” ‘{print $1}’) echo “$spot | $line” || exit 1 done

laptop special keys

generate default keymapping:

xbindkeys -d > ~/.xbindkeysrc add these lines:

“amixer -c 0 set Master 5-” XF86AudioLowerVolume

“amixer -c 0 set Master 5+” XF86AudioRaiseVolume