Helge's i3 configuration

My personal configuration for the i3 Window Manager.

Setup

This guide assumes you have i3 installed, are logged in and running i3 with it's default configuration in an Xfce4 session under X11

Required additional packages

EL/Fedora package names

i3

• nitrogen
• brighnessctl
• xfsettingsd
• blueberry
• compton
• alsa-utils
• playerctl
• gnome-keyring-daemon
• xrandr
• xnote
• parcellite
• nm-applet

Desktop applications referenced

• roxterm
• google-chrome
• thunar
• Thunderbird
• Zeal

i3blocks

• sysstat

Step by step

1. Install additional packages
2. Clone this repository to ~/.i3 or ~./.config/i3
3. Build the i3blocks binary
4. Copy systemd/monitor-hotplug.service to ~/.config/systemd and enable the service systemctl --user enable monitor-hotplug.service
5. Install fontawesome-webfont.ttf from fonts/
6. Check dmenu-extended dependencies