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First we are going to take a look at the launch.sh file to start polybar. If you are on ArchMerge 6.3.1 awesome font is installed. You only need to install polybar. If you are on ArchMergeD you need to install them both yaourt -S polybar awesome-terminal-fonts You can...
Very often I refer to the wiki of Arch Linux but in this case this will be our link to get to know polybar. https://github.com/jaagr/polybar Polybar is an alternative panel or bar to use instead of the bars of i3 or tint2 in Openbox. It provides us with an alternative...
Atom is one of the editors out there you can use to edit code. There are many others out there. sudo pacman -S atom Install the following packages minimap pigments minimap-pigments We show you where and how. We will include more tips about Atom in the...
Starting from ArchMerge 6.2.1 we have many more packages to update our system i.e. Rolling Release. Some of them need to be installed in our own personal home folder. In that case you need to take action to get the latest files and folders and move them to your own...
You can find many configuration files or dot files out there on the net for i3. You can use some of these files to improve your i3 settings. Google : "github i3 config" and you will find dozens of people sharing their config. That is how you learn by reading other...
Compton is a compositor for Openbox and i3. It will take care of transparency and shadows on your system. It 'beautifies' your system. But sometimes you need to take a picture and you rather not see the background coming through. How can I do this? Openbox has a menu...
When you logoff from Openbox or Xfce and log back in to i3 you will see that i3 is going to use the settings from openbox/xfce to set icons, themes and cursors. ~/.gtkrc-2.0 is one of these files. You will find the themes, fonts, icons etc... The other to keep in mind...
This applies to all desktop environments. Our goal is to change the autologin from Xfce to Openbox or i3. If we just want to change for one time than you logout and click on the icon at the top right corner of the login screen. The concept of ArcoLinux is that anyone...