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Table of Contents
I3 Window Manager
Various Things related to I3
I3 Config and tweaks
Autotile
Make new windows be created in alternating horizontal / vertical arrangement, depending on aspect ratio of the current window.
I3 Config File
i3status bar
Conky
Gather ruptime information about local LAN Linux boxes from the rwhod service and format it with a small script ~/ruptime called from conkyrc
${font DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10}${execi 30 ~/ruptime}
Real ruptime returns:
gm4slv@antix1:~ $ ruptime antix1 up 1+04:34, 0 users, load 0.63, 0.48, 0.47 aprs up 116+04:03, 0 users, load 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 laptop up 9+16:04, 0 users, load 1.27, 1.09, 1.04 nas1 up 185+23:19, 0 users, load 0.33, 0.48, 0.47 shack up 16:19, 0 users, load 0.16, 0.22, 0.21
My small script formats it for conky
gm4slv@antix1:~ $ ./ruptime antix1 up 1+04:34 aprs up 116+04:03 laptop up 9+16:04 nas1 up 185+23:19 shack up 16:19
add neofetch output as image to root window
Keys cheatsheet
$mod+p = promote window $mod+Return = terminal $mod+Shift+q = kill window $mod+d = dmenu $mod+h = focus left $mod+j = focus down $mod+k = focus up $mod+l = focus right $mod+Shift+h = move left $mod+Shift+j = move down $mod+Shift+k = move up $mod+Shift+l = move right $mod+f = fullsreen toggle === When using Autotile these are for the next window to be created ==== $mod+s = stacking $mod+w = tabbed $mod+e = toggle h or v === Toggle a window between tiled and floating === $mod+Shift+space = floating toggle === Switch focus between a floating window and the tiled window(s) $mod+space focus mode_toggle $mod+a = focus parent
Additional Software
urxvt
Configured vi ~/.Xdefaults
For Ranger icons use DejavuSansMono NFM:size=11:style=Book
A bug makes font rendering odd, with too much space between characters (kerning is wrong)
A fix is to put Xft.rgba: none into ~/.Xdefaults
Another fix is to put URxvt.letterSpace=-1 into ~/.Xdefaults
Here's the ~/.Xdefaults I use:
Some un-used lines are commented out, but might be useful in testing….
Xft.rgba: none #Xft.hintstyle: hintfull #URxvt.letterSpace:-1 Xcursor.size:10 #URxvt.skipBuiltinGlyphs: true URxvt.scrollBar: false URxvt.boldFont: #URxvt.font: xft:DejaVuSansMono:style=Book:size=11 #URxvt.font: xft:Monospace:size=11, xft:DejaVuSansMono NFM:style=Book URxvt.font: xft:DejaVuSansMono NFM:size=11:style=Book
Ranger
- Image Previews:
/etc/ranger/config/rc.conf:set preview_images true
set preview_images_method w3m
- Draw borders round segments of display
/etc/ranger/config/rc.conf:set draw_borders both
- Icons following instructions here: https://github.com/alexanderjeurissen/ranger_devicons
/etc/ranger/config/rc.conf:default_linemode devicons
- Font for icons : https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.2.2/DejaVuSansMono.zip
- unzipped into : ~/.fonts
- font cache re-built with
fc-cache -fv
- Use Lxterminal - handles icons and image previews (
stis poor for image previews) - commands for exracting and creating compressed archives (
zip,tar,tar.gzetc) from here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ranger#Archives- added both
pythonsnippets to/etc/ranger/config/commands.py - added keybindings to
/etc/ranger/config/rc.confmap ,n console compress map ,m compress temp.zip map ,e console extract_here
- extract a zip/tar/tar.gz by the keystroke ,e
- create an automatically named
temp.ziparchive by selecting the files (Space) and then ,m - create a named archive of your choice ,n
your_archive_name.[tar|zip|tar.gz]
<insert> : touch (new file) gg : move to top G : move to bottom <F1> : help <F2> : rename <F3> : view (less) <F4> : edit (vim) <F5> : copy <F6> : cut <F7> : mkdir <F8> : delete <F10>: quit <space> : select uv : un-select yy : yank (copy) dd : cut ud : un-cut uy : un-cut(yank) pp : paste gh : GoHome zh : show hidden dotfiles Archive operation commands ,n : new named archive ,m : new "temp.zip" ,e : extract_here
— John Pumford-Green 09/10/22 12:38





