These are my dotfiles, none of your dotfiles. :P

• Another polybar config based on Gruvbox Color Scheme.
• Having the layout as indicated in the above screenshot.
• You can use this config from the /polybar/gruvbox_bar.cfg.

• My custom configuration of polybar, i call it PolioBar.
• You can find at polybar/poliobar.
• Fonts: FontAwesome, Noto Emoji, Cascadia Code
• FontAwesome: sudo apt install fonts-font-awesome

• Installing Required Fonts.
  • Installing Cascadia Code Font.
  • sudo apt install fonts-cascadia-code
  • Installing Noto Font for emoji support.
  • sudo apt install fonts-noto
  • Installing the FontAwesome Font for cool unicode symbols.
  • See the Extra Section down in the file where i've mentioned how to install FontAwesome5.
• Installing Polybar
  • sudo apt install polybar
• Installing Network Tray.
  • sudo apt install nm-tray
• Setting up the configuration file.
  • Copy the polybar/poliobar file to ~/.config/polybar/poliobar

  • ⚠️ NOTE: You can also give it the name of config but then you need to modify the launch.sh file in poliobar/.

• Running the Polybar in i3 or i3-gaps.
  • Copy polybar/launch.sh from the repository to ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh
  • Give the executable permissions to launch.sh by.
  • chmod +x ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh
  • Now edit your i3 or i3-gaps config at ~/.config/i3/config.
  • And add the following line to start the polybar when i3 starts.
  • exec_always --no-startup-id ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh
  • Another line to enable the network tray.
  • exec_always --no-startup-id nm-applet
  • Then just restart your i3 by mod+shift+r.
  • That's it, you now have a complete functional polybar.

• FontAwesome Cheat Sheet: http://fontawesome.com/cheatsheet
  • Contains the list of all the font's unicode symbols.
• Polybar Wiki: https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki
  • Contains the documentation on how to configure polybar.
• Polybar Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Polybar/
  • It's subreddit of polybar where you can ask questions.
• Text To Ascii: http://patorjk.com/software/taag
  • To generate the ascii text for poliobar.
  • You can also use figlet or toilet.

• xorg.conf.d:
• Don't know about you but when i was the DE guy, i used to use the gestures of touchpad.
• So i figure out how to enable some gestures for tilling-wm.

• Setup necessary files.
  • Goto /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, create if you don't have these folders.
  • Then create 90-touchpad.conf and paste the content from my repository's file.
• Thanks to Cody Craven check his article here.
• https://cravencode.com/post/essentials/enable-tap-to-click-in-i3wm/

• Download the zip file of fonts from the below link.
  • https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.15.1/fontawesome-free-5.15.1-desktop.zip
• Extract it and go the otf's folder where you'll find otf files for the fontawesome5 font.
• Install it either by clicking it and installing if you're using a gui font manager.
• If you're not using GUI font installer.
  • Create directory ~/.fonts if you don't have.
  • Then copy all the OTF files of font to this directory.
• It's a good practice to manually rebuild the font cache so.
  • fc-cache -f -v
• Finally you've your FontAwesome5 Font.

• Here, we'll be talking about lxappearance.
• How to install lxappearance
  • sudo apt install lxappearance
• Then open it and change you icons, cursors, etc.
• You can download cursor themes and icon themes from xfce-look, 'kde store', gnome look, etc.

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