Scratchpad

2019 Workflow

• Installed i3wm-gaps

  Installed all the dependencies from here The gaps-next had to be selected

• Personalized the i3wm keys
  • $mod+... Navigation, Split, Mod, Fullscreen
    • $mod+Shift+... Move containers
    • $mod+Ctrl+... i3 actions (pl.: config reload)
• Installed rofi to replacce i3-dmenu

  PPA. > This isn't an up to date version

• Installed polybar instead of i3bar

  Requires i3 to be restarted restart

• Font installation

  Downloaded from nerd-fonts repo a font.zip and unzipped it's content into ~/.local/share/fonts/

• Setting font in these:
  • Terminal
  • Polybar
  • i3
• Changing to solarized dark theme
  • terminal

    Installed by this description

  • polybar

    Colors

• Disabled nautilus file manager to startup without desktop
  • gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false (details)
• Added brightness function key support
  • On Ubuntu 16.04 required the light package
    • Had to compile for myself because there isn't a package yet for Ubuntu
  • xbacklight wasn't working