i3 setup on Arch Linux or EndeavourOS

1. Clone this repo
2. cd into the home/.setup folder

There you can run a number of different scripts which will copy the needed files into their respective folders in your home.

Tasks after installing the packages and copying configs:

1. Install junegunn/vim-plug, a vim plugin manager.
   1. Run .config/nvim/autoload/install-plug-vim.sh
   2. Open nvim
   3. Type :PlugInstall hit enter
2. Install starship for a better shell and prompt
3. Install zsh plugins
   1. Run git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ~/.zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/
   2. Run git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions
4. Change your shell using chsh -s $(which zsh) log out and back in, or reboot
5. Perform all or most of the steps described in the following chapters

Common issue is that KDE and GTK application dont have theme when using i3. You need to install and setup qt6ct and lxappearance as described below.

1. Install the qt6ct and breeze packages
2. Open qt6ct and set the breeze and the font you want
3. Save and close
4. Edit the /etc/environment file and add the line QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt6ct at the end. If the key already exists with the qt5ct value, you can replace it with qt6ct
5. Reboot your system

1. Install the

2. Install the lxappearance and the breeze-gtk packages

3. run lxappearance and change the theme

4. Save and close

5. Reboot your system

The following fonts are being used in this setup:

• ttf-ibm-plex
• ttf-hack-nerd

I use github.com/polybar/polybar as a status bar in my i3 setup. The following modules require specific packages or setup.

Will print the number of available updates for your system. Requires the pacman-contrib package to be installed.

Will show your current local ip, upload and download usage. You need to change the interfaces it uses in the .config/polybar/config file. You can get the available interfaces using ip link.

Will tell you that a webcam is currently connected! It will not tell you if its in use! By using right click you can see the current view of the camera, this requires the zvbi package.

Use this to change your backlight brightness on your laptop. You need to install the light package for this. Make sure to add your user to the video group using sudo usermod -a -G video <username> and log in again after this. Now you can change the brightness without using sudo.

This requires my custom weather widget c-jaenicke/weather-go.

Shows the current gold and silver price. Requires my custom c-jaenicke/go-silver-gold-tracker widget.

Requires:

    brlaser \
    brother-dcp1610w \
    brscan4 \
    cups \
    cups-pdf \
    sane \
    sane-airscan \
    skanlite \

You can add the scanner using sudo brsaneconfig4 -a name=<NAME OF PRINTER> model=<MODEL> nodename=<HOSTNAME OF PRINTER>. You can try adding the printer automatically using the CUPS web interface. Alternatively you can add it manually using the web interface using the address ipp://<HOSTNAME>/ipp/port1.

This might not work for you because printers are great.

On some setups Konsole renders huge whitespaces between words. This is a font issue. To fix this you have to create a new profile in the Konsole settings and set the font to a monospace font! Save the profile and set is as the default.

Add or edit the line Xft.dpi: 192 to the home/.Xresources file. Exit the session and log in again.

Sometimes fixed by installing kwalletmanager and kwallet-pam. Sometimes just installing kwalletmanager, opening it, unlocking the keyring, and then log into the application.

git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD home| tree --fromfile -a | awk '!/directories|^$/ {print $0}'
git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD home| tree --fromfile -a | awk '!/directories|^$/ {print $0}' > home/files.txt