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Setup for :

• i3, a great tiling windows manager
  • In fact i3-gaps, to add padding between windows
  • And i3-lock-color, an improved lock screen
• LightDM with custom GTKTheme and background
• Sublime Text 3
• Polybar, a great replacement for i3-bar with easy custom plugins
• Terminator
• ZSH with Oh My ZSH!
• Dunst, a great and lightweight notification daemon
• Random things (GTKTheme...)

Requirements

Configuration makes use of these things, just to record but not mandatory :

• oh-my-zsh
• fasd
• Pygments (with pygmentize command)
• Powerline Fonts
• sudo pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client
• SpaceFM
• PlayerCTL
• GTK Arc Theme
• Fonts : Noto Sans, DejaVu Sans, MaterialIcons, Symbola

What is this, Chosto ?

I used a lot Debian/Ubuntu with Gnome. So a full Desktop Manager with a stacking Windows Manager. A friend of mine showed me i3, a great and customizable tiling Windows Manager (i.e. no windows stack, just divide the scren and take all empty space).

With some customization and additionnal component (in this repo), I managed to get a functional and pleasant yet lightweight environment (for me, no brag).

So basically, what I like about this setup is that there is no useful menu bar anywhere and no border. Just windows with gaps between them when multiple windows are on the same screen.

I added to the classic Arch/i3WM :

• A notification daemon (urgency-aware), Dunst, controlled by shortcut (but possibly with mouse).
• A fancy lock screen, with optionnal suspend-to-RAM, either triggered by hotkey or when there is no activity for X minutes.
• A Display Manager (LightDM), for login and X starting.
• A great File Explorer (SpaceFM), with hotkey / command-line / screen-split / protocol handlers / events support.
• ZSH with Oh My ZSH and excellent community plugins (Git aliases, Docker autocomplete, FASD bindings, cat and man coloration...)
• Some mappings to control ALSA volume from dedicated keyboards buttons, to play/plause players compatible with MPRIS D-Bus Interface spec ; some changes to key speed (X settings) ; Smooth and dark theme for GTK and for Sublime-Text...

Usage

Please note : on my system XDG_CONFIG_HOME is $HOME/.config.

• Clone in bare repository : git clone --bare https://github.com/Chostakovitch/dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg. A bare repository does not have a working tree (basically it is just .git content). So we avoid conflicts with another git repository.
• Create a working tree outside .cfg : /usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME checkout.
• Adjust DEFAUT_USER in ~/.zshrc.
• Source ~/.zshrc and use provided config alias to pull.
• config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no to ignore untracked files in status (better as it is home dir).

Credits to this great article for the trick.