i3 Blue Edition

Clean, minimal i3wm configuration focused on a coherent blue aesthetic and low resource use.

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Overview

This setup pairs i3 with Polybar, Rofi, Picom, Dunst and Kitty. The visual language is deliberately restrained: dark backgrounds, thin underlines, short labels and a single accent family.

Polybar shows weather, date, time, volume, battery, RAM, CPU, temperature and kernel version. Notifications use a matching dunst theme with bottom accent lines.

Preview

Dependencies

Install the packages below for your distribution. Names can differ slightly between releases.

Fedora

sudo dnf install i3 polybar rofi picom dunst kitty \
  i3lock-color feh scrot ImageMagick flameshot \
  brightnessctl playerctl network-manager-applet \
  autorandr curl

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S i3-wm polybar rofi picom dunst kitty \
  i3lock-color feh scrot imagemagick flameshot \
  brightnessctl playerctl network-manager-applet \
  autorandr curl

# AUR (if needed)
yay -S i3lock-color

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt install i3 polybar rofi picom dunst kitty \
  i3lock feh scrot imagemagick flameshot \
  brightnessctl playerctl network-manager-gnome \
  autorandr curl

# i3lock-color is usually preferred (build from source or PPA)

openSUSE

sudo zypper install i3 polybar rofi picom dunst kitty \
  i3lock feh scrot ImageMagick flameshot \
  brightnessctl playerctl NetworkManager-applet \
  autorandr curl

Fonts

Plus Jakarta Sans fonts.google.com
Iosevka Nerd Font nerd-fonts releases

Place the files in ~/.local/share/fonts or ~/.fonts, then run:

fc-cache -fv

Lockscreen

Copy the lock script and make it executable:

cp .config/lock ~/.local/bin/lock
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/lock

Bound to Mod + L by default.

Quick start

git clone -b i3-blue https://github.com/user7210unix/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
cp -r .config/* ~/.config/
# install fonts, then
fc-cache -fv
# restart i3 or log out / in