dotfiles

precious dotfiles!

intro

Loved KDE Plasma, loved i3. Used both combined, not completely fallen for i3.

I swapped around a lot, but a few r/unixporn links motivated me to try out a combination of KDE & i3, most notable:

• KDE + i3 - A match made in heaven
• KDE + bspwm (different window manager, but still)

I always loved tilting window managers. KDE Plasma and its corresponding window manager kwin is not bad, but I wanted to improve my productivity and use my screen estate more efficiently. While I could have done this too with a window tiler like QuickTile (see ArchWiki - List of applications#Window_tilers for more), I preferred changing the window manager. After getting used to the workflow, I felt that I don't really need the KDE environment. So I have thrown it out.

Now I am only using i3-gaps. With polybar as panel.

setup

• Window manager: i3-gaps
• System panel: polybar
• Compositor: compton
• Notification daemon: dunst
• Font: Fira Sans/Code
• Program launcher: rofi
• Terminal emulator: urxvt
• Shell: bash
• Text editor: neovim
• Browser: firefox-nightly

special thanks

I would like to thank mohabaks for his incredible i3 config, which I modified slightly. Check out his post at reddit: i3gaps-solarized.