My very own i3 Configuration

Requirements

general

• i3 - window manager
• i3status - status bar
• feh - setting bg, also nice image viewer
• urxvt - terminal emulator
• unclutter - autohide mouse cursor
• udiskie - device automounting
• dunst - notifications
• pulseaudio - audio managment
• autocutsel - clipboard synchroniation
• dmenu - Super-P launcher
• pavucontrol - pulseaudio mixer
• alsamixer
• volnoti-hccu

from xorg

• setxkbmap - setting keyboard layout
• xmodmap - custom key changes

Installation

It's as simple as that:

cd
git clone https://github.com/ivyl/i3-config.git .i3
ln -s .i3/xinitrc .xinitrc
ln -s .i3/gtkrc-2.0 .gtkrc-2.0
ln -f $PWD/gtk-3.0-settings ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

Additional Features

Udev folder contains udev rules and executables to be put under /opt

The rule makes use of dockery.sh and handles docking and undocking of Thinkpad's minidock.

touch ~/.thinkpad_dock to enable.

Bindings

• Super-Shift-c - close current windows
• Super-Shift-Enter - open terminal
• Super - drag floating windows
• Super-t - toggle floating mode
• Super-f - fullscreen
• Super-r - resize mode
• Super-d - parent container - dad
• Super-b - child container - baby

Check config for more.