Dotfiles

Some details

• OS: Debian 9 (stretch)
• WM: I3wm version i3-gaps
• Bar: Polybar
• Terminal: rxvt-unicode-256color (URxvt)
• Shell: bash, zsh with oh-my-zsh
• File Manager: vifm (terminal), thunar (graphical)
• Application launcher: Albert
• Editor: Vim (terminal), VSCode (graphical)
• Browser: Firefox
• Battery warning: i3battery
• Control backlights: light
• Mail client: Mailspring
• Chat application: Telegram, Rambox
• Music player: Spotify
• External package installer: YAPI

This configuration with all application need a 700~800MB of memory, principally cause by dropbox (with more than 150MB upkeep) and mailspring (with more than 350MB upkeep). Without these application the configuration drop to 250~300MB upkeep usage of memory.

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Index

0. Makefile

1. I3wm

2. Polybar

3. Urxvt

4. Zsh

5. Vim

6. Vifm

7. Albert

8. Visual Studio Code

9. Install

10. WallPaper

11. Deprecations

    1. i3blocks
    2. Rofi

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Makefile

I3

This configuration is Vim oriented (move keys with h-j-k-l). You can find the config here -> file

Preview

Full:

• up left -> gtop
• up right up -> tty-clock
• up right middle -> cmatrix
• down left -> neofetch
• down middle -> vifm
• down right -> urxvt

Clean:

Keyboard

I use the windows key as my main mod key.

• super + enter -> new terminal
• super + d -> launch rofi
• super + shift + q -> close container
• super + [1-0] -> change workspace
• super + Tab -> move to next workspace
• super + Shift + Tab -> move to previous workspace
• super + shift + [1-0] -> move container to workspace
• super + g -> toggle split mode
• super + f -> toggle fullscreen
• super + t -> layout tabbed
• super + e -> toggle layout split
• super + r -> resize mode
• super + o -> focus floating
• super + Shift + o -> toggle floating
• super + MouseButton1 -> Move floating window
• super + h/l -> move right/left container view
• super + j/k -> move down/up container view
• super + Shift + h/j/k/l -> move container left/down/up/right
• super + p -> system control mode (logout, suspend, hibernate, reboot, poweroff)
• super + s -> spotify control mode (play, pause, next, previous, toggle play/pause)
• super + w -> window and container move trought output mode (up, down, right, left)
• super + m -> change output layout (horizontal|vertical left|right)
• super + Shift + agrave -> Mode start and stop dropbox (start, stop)
• super + Shift + x -> lock screen
• print -> grab a screenshoot of the active window
• super + print -> select area to grab to screenshot
• super + Shift + print -> grab a screenshoot of the entire screen
• XF86Tools -> open with vim the config file
• XF86Display -> open arandr for graphical management of monitor view
• super + XF86Display -> load the second monitor inplace
• super + backslash -> open vifm in the home directory
• super + Shift + comma -> create a new file and edit with vim
• super + Shift + ograve -> open mailspring mail client
• super + v -> open empty vim in home directory
• super + - -> open gtop
• super + comma -> open .Xresources with vim
• super + period -> open .vimrc with vim
• super + backslash -> open vifm

Modes

For this configuration I use this modes:

1. Resize -> default resize modality of i3, use:

   • l -> resize shrink width
   • j -> resize grow height
   • k -> resize shrink height
   • h -> resize grow width
   • q or Escape -> return to default mode

2. System -> use to exit from i3, use:

   • l -> logout
   • s -> suspend
   • h -> hibernate
   • r -> reboot
   • p -> shutdown
   • q or Escape -> return to default mode

3. Spotify -> use to control spotify desktop app, use:

   • h -> previous song
   • j -> pause
   • k -> play
   • l -> next song
   • s -> toggle pause and play
   • q or Escape -> return to default mode

4. ContentMove -> move workspace or containers from output to another:

   • Shift+l -> move workspace to right
   • Shift+h -> move workspace to left
   • Shift+j -> move workspace to down
   • Shift+k -> move workspace to up
   • q or Escape -> return to default mode

5. Output layout -> use to change layout of output:

   • h -> Vertical left
   • h -> Horizontal left
   • h -> Horizontal right
   • h -> Vertical right
   • q or Escape -> return to default mode

6. Dropbox -> Start and Stop for dropbox, added after known about the memory usage of dropbox (see the introduction of dorfiles)

   • s -> dropbox start
   • d -> dropbox stop
   • q or Escape -> return to default mode

Install

Not yet tested

Make argument:

• Basic dependencies:

  make i3

• All dependencies:

  make i3_all

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Polybar

You can find the config here -> file

Preview

Top:

• On the corner top left: spotify view of song
• On the middle top: wireless connection, wired connection (it's red because is not connected)
• On the corner top right: tray icons

Bottom:

• On the corner bottom left: cpu status with animated bar that represents the 4 cores, rap status with the animated status bar, filesystem status with free and percentage of usage, temperature of core.
• On the middle bottom: i3wm workspaces
• On the corner bottom right: volume percentage, brightness percentage, battery status with animated charging and color change if the adapter is disconnected, date and time

Modules

Upper bar:

• left -> spotify
• center -> wireless-network wired-network
• right -> tray

Bottom bar:

• left -> cpu memory filesystem temperature
• center -> i3
• right -> pulseaudio backlight battery date

Install

Not yet tested

Make argument:

make polybar

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Urxvt

You can find the Xresources here -> file

Preview

Keyboard

• Ctrl++ -> increase the font size
• Ctrl+- -> decrease the font size
• Ctrl+Shift+c -> copy to the clipboard
• Ctrl+Shift+v -> paste from the clipboard

Plugin

• font-size
• url-select

Install

Not yet tested

Make argument:

make urxvt

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Zsh - Oh-My-Zsh

You can find the zshrc here -> file

Theme in use: agnoster with powerline

Preview

Keyboard

Vim bindkey is active.

Plugin

• debian
• git
• colorize
• zsh-completions
• zsh-autosuggestions
• zsh-syntax-highlighting
• copydir
• copyfile
• sudo
• themes
• vscode
• web-search

Install

Not yet tested

Make argument:

make zsh

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Vim

You can find the config here -> file

Preview

Keyboard

To abilitate the copy and paste to clipboard you need to install vim-gnome

• Ctrl+\ -> open the nerd tree
• <F2> -> copy to the clipboard
• <F3> -> paste from the clipboard
• Ctrl+<motion> -> move line/s
• Ctrl+w <motion> -> switch between splitted editor
• Ctrl+d -> switch to bash terminal
• Space+f -> folding
• Space+> -> switch to next tab
• Space+< -> switch to previous tab
• Tab -> move specified vim window in the visual

Plugin

I'm using plugged

• i3-vim-syntax
• vim-sensible
• jedi-vim
• gojo.vim
• nerdtree
• nerdtree-git-plugin
• vim-airline
• vim-airline-themes
• tpope/vim-fugitive
• vim-gitgutter
• vim-signify
• vim-polyglot
• jellybeans.vim
• luochen1990/rainbow
• matze/vim-move
• vim-ctrlspace

Install

Not yet tested

Make argument:

make vim

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Vifm

You can find the config here -> file

Preview

Keyboard

To see all of the keyboard shortcut go to cheatsheets: vifm.info/cheatsheets.shtml:

Install

Make argument:

make vifm

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Albert

You can find the config here -> file

Preview

Install

Make argument:

make albert

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VSCode

Preview

Keyboard

To see the keyboard setup you can read the keybinding.json

• All the Vim keybinding are set up with the VSCodeVim plugin

Plugin

• Vim
• IntelliCode
• markdownlint
• Python
• Icons

To install this plugins you can use the script install_extension.sh

Install

Not yet tested

Make argument:

make code

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Install

Not yet tested

This install is tested only for Debian 9

I do not ensure the result of the installation for computers other than mine

First of all, you need to be in the sudoers:

$ usermod -aG sudo <username>

Download or clone one of the release and run:

git clone https://github.com/wabri/dotfiles
cd dotfiles
make all

Now reboot and prey.

Or you can follow the commands you find on the makefile step by step -> makefile

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WallPaper

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Deprecated

I3Blocks

You can find the config here -> file

Preview

Modules

Install

Not yet tested

Make argument:

make i3blocks

After this installation you need to update the i3config with this value:

bar {
	font pango:FontAwesome Mono 13
	separator_symbol "|"
	status_command i3blocks -c .config/i3blocks/i3blocks.conf
}

For more blocks you can use this repository i3blocks-contrib

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Rofi

Preview

Keyboard

You can see all the configuration here

This configuration is vim oriented

• Alt + Shift + d -> Clear input line
• Alt + Shift + i -> Beginning of the line
• Alt + Shift + a -> End of line
• Alt + b -> Move back one word
• Alt + w -> Move forward one word
• Alt + h -> Move back one char
• Alt + l -> Move forward one char
• Alt + Shift + c -> Delete till the end of the line
• Alt + Shift + s -> Delete till the start of the line
• Control + Tab -> Switch to the next mode
• Alt + Shift + h -> Go to the previous column
• Alt + Shift + l -> Go to the next column
• Control + Space -> Set selected item as input text
• Alt + s -> Take a screenshot of the rofi window
• Escape -> Quit rofi

Install

Not yet tested

Make argument:

make rofi

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