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my (hopefully) up to date i3-gaps dotfiles, now based around pywal and polybar. also my terminal of choice is a slightly modified version of luke smith's st fork. maybe i'll share my exact config later.

screenshot

(wallpaper art by devin elle kurtz)

configs for:

• i3-gaps wm
• polybar
• rofi
• fish
• compton
• neovim

other supported software

make sure to set the 'DIR' variable in the wallpaper.sh script. if the script is located at ~/.local/src/scripts/wallpaper.sh, a simple 'wall' in the fish shell will change the wallpaper, generate a color scheme and apply it to some applications automatically.

• vs code with xresources-theme
• telegram with telegram-palette-gen
• recommended to use blurredfox theme

key bindings

• standard i3 bindings for everything else
• mod+return open st
• mod+c close focused window
• jkl; changed to hjkl (vim keys)
• mod+d open rofi (execute)
• mod+shift+d open rofi-spotlight (global search)
• mod+y increase gaps by 5px
• mod+shift+y decrease gaps by 5px
• for st key binds, see here

installation

i recommend arch linux btw, for other non-arch (based) distros you have to figure the packages out yourself. make sure that all the essentials are working on your install (like wifi), i won't address those here

required packages:

• i3-gaps
• polybar [aur]
• compositor like compton-tryone-git [aur]
• rofi
• feh
• python-pywal

recommended packages:

• st, also integrates perfectly with pywal. i recommend to clone the repo and change the config.h file to your liking - basically i would avoid the aur build
• blurredfox firefox theme
• autotiling [aur]
• exa, bat, fish

step 1: install at least all the required packages, a terminal of your choice etc.

step 2: if you're not using st, change the line 'bindsym $mod+Return exec st' to your preferred terminal emulator. also if you don't want to use autotiling, you have to delete the line 'exec_always --no-startup-id autotiling'. optionally set the 'DIR' variable in scripts/wallpaper.sh to your wallpaper directory and put the script in ~/.local/src/scripts/wallpaper.sh

step 3: copy the contents of the config folder to your own .config folder.

$ cp -r config/ ~/.config

step 4: profit