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---
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title: "i3 configuration"
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description: "Moved to Sway"
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author: "Thurstylark"
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date: 2021-9-25
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draft: false
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---
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Source: https://git.thurstylark.com/vcsh/i3.git
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## j4-make-config
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The final config that actually is read by i3 is created using j4-make-config. This is done in the [Xinitrc](Xinitrc.md).
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Simple usage:
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```
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j4-make-config -a $(hostname).config archlinux
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```
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This creates `~/.config/i3/config` by merging `~/.config/i3/config.base` and `~/.config/i3/$HOSTNAME.config`, and adds the 'archlinux' theme (included with j4-make-config). Optionally, you can add `-r` to tell i3 to reload the config after `j4-make-config` has completed.
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Since using `j4-make-config`, the command for reloading the config has been changed to the following:
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```
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# rebuild and reload the configuration file
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bindsym $mod+Shift+c exec "j4-make-config -r -a $HOSTNAME.config archlinux"
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```
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### Reference
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https://github.com/okraits/j4-make-config
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----
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## Media Keys
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### Volume
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This differs depending on if you're using ALSA or Pulseaudio. Thus, I include these instructions in the host-specific configs instead of the base config
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ALSA:
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```
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# Alsa Volume controls
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bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id amixer set Master 5%+ #increase sound volume
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bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec --no-startup-id amixer set Master 5%- #decrease sound volume
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bindsym XF86AudioMute exec --no-startup-id amixer set Master toggle * mute sound
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```
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PulseAudio:
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```
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# PulseAudio Volume controls
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bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +5% #increase sound volume
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bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec --no-startup-id pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -5% #decrease sound volume
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bindsym XF86AudioMute exec --no-startup-id pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle * mute sound
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```
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### Brightness
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Brightness can be universal unless the utility for changing brightness differs between machines, so this snippit lives in the base config.
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```
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# Sreen brightness controls (requires light(1) from the AUR)
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bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec light -A 10 * increase screen brightness
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bindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown exec light -U 10 * decrease screen brightness
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```
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### Playhead Control
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This also is universal if the same tool is being used across hosts. I use `playerctl` mainly for its compatibility with Spotify's Linux client.
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```
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# Music Player controls
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bindsym XF86AudioPlay exec --no-startup-id playerctl play-pause
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bindsym XF86AudioNext exec --no-startup-id playerctl next
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bindsym XF86AudioPrev exec --no-startup-id playerctl previous
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```
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### References
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Extra_keyboard_keys
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#Keyboard_volume_control
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Keyboard_volume_control
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Backlight
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Spotify#Global_media_hotkeys
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----
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## Screen Locker
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The screen locker is already set up in [Xinitrc](Xinitrc.md), so all that is necessary in the i3 config is to set the key combination that should spawn `xautolock -locknow`.
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```
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# Ctrl+Alt+L to lock the screen
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# Locker is set in ~/.xinitrc
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bindsym Mod1+Control+l exec "xautolock -locknow"
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```
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----
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## i3Bar
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This is another host-specific configuration, since `bar {}` has host-specific options apart from just the i3status config. It also includes the `j4-make-config` theme placeholder, since the theme definitions for the bar are separate from the main config.
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I'll only demonstrate the most complicated of my current i3bar configuration. The rest can be viewed on the git repo.
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```
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bar {
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status_command i3status -c ~/.config/i3/status/$HOSTNAME.config
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tray_output primary
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output eDP1 * Which display should i3bar be bound to?
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# $i3-theme-bar
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}
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```
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----
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## i3Status
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Most of the i3Status configuration is pretty standard, and is well documented by [the upstream docs](https://i3wm.org/i3status/manpage.html), so I'll only document the specific directives I crafted/modified myself
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### Volume
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This directive chooses ALSA by default, PulseAudio can be specified by adding `device = "pulse"` to the end of this directive.
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```
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volume master {
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format = "🔈%volume" * U+1F508
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format_muted = "🔇" * U+1F507
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}
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```
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### SPVPN
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This is a simple pidfile watcher used with one of my [VPN](VPN.md) configurations that gets started with systemd.
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```
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run_watch SPVPN {
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pidfile = "/var/run/spvpn@*.pid"
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}
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```
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