i3wm with conky status bar

i3wm and conky setting/configurations files. Based on This and I made some modifications and add other things to make it enhanced.

The workspace bar:

The status bar:

To view the screenshot of whole screen, scroll down...

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Setup

• Install the necessary packages:

  • conky
  • dmenu
  • feh
  • terminator
  • xcompmgr
  • scrot and ksnapshot
  • alsa-utils
  • networkmanager、nm-connection-editor nm-applet

• Clone the repo into ~/.config/i3

  git clone https://github.com/tonyho/i3wm-conky-config.git ~/.config/i3

  cd ~/.config/i3

• Install the font i3status-conky/fontawesome-webfont.ttf

• Get the window list jumper script

  wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minos-org/minos-desktop-tools/master/tools/dmenu-i3-window-jumper

• Give the executable permission for files

  cd ~/.config/i3

  chmod +x dmenu-i3-window-jumper wallpaper.sh i3status-conky/i3status.sh

• Setup the wallpaper and lock picture

  cp wallpaper -r ~/Pictures

  cp wallpaper/lock/lock.jpg ~/Pictures/

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Keybindings

The basic key bindings is following:

Also we can use the Mod+p to jump to the opened window by searching its title

Tips

• TeamViewer: Move it to a worksapce(Mod + Shift + N) and make it fullscreen(Mod + f)

• ScreenShot: Use the ksnapshot launched by DMemu(Mod + d)

• Picture Edit: Use the shutter or GIMP

• Lock or quit: Mod + Shift + q, then press the corresponding key

• File Explorer: Mod + e, or launch the nautilus --no-desktop . in terminal

• Switch to terminal(Ctrl + Alt + F1~F6) to close the application:

  When an application overlay the i3 worksapce and can't switch to other workspace, and cannot close that application

• It takes a little time to be effect when update the conky status bar configuration

Ref

• Color theme configuration: Color Theme
• Reference setting: Reference Setting
• Reference setting: Reference Setting
• Deepin Linux design to know the some details of the DE and WM: Learn