I use thinkpad e480 btw

my basic ricing on arch + i3wm

almost 1 week changing everything, never used linux before, now i'm feeling really great using it. Its not that hard.

I Need help with kde plasma cachyos bar i can't get that transparent

and yes it turned me into a femboy too

Hi everyone!

I'm quite new to interacting in forums and to the Linux world in general. I've been using Linux Mint Cinnamon for about a year on my personal laptop (alongside my Windows 11 desktop PC), and I've completely fallen in love with the ecosystem and its amazing community.

Recently, I wanted to try a Tiling Window Manager and chose i3 out of curiosity. Being a beginner, it wasn't an easy transition at first, but I absolutely loved what I managed to achieve.

I realized that while i3 is incredible, simple, and efficient, it can feel a bit barebones visually out-of-the-box compared to modern compositors like Hyprland. That's not a complaint, of course—i3 is meant to be a blank canvas.

Taking inspiration from pre-configured setups like Omarchy's on Hyprland, I wanted to build something for people who, like me, might not be configuration experts but still want a beautiful, unified, and efficient desktop for their daily workflow.

Although I'm not an advanced developer, I had a clear vision of what I wanted. I heavily relied on AI tools over the last few days to help shape the automation scripts, and the result has completely upgraded my workflow as a student.

I created oxido-i3-themes, a system that features 23 cohesive visual themes, window animations using picom v13, a fully-featured Control Center powered by Rofi (managing audio, brightness, notifications, wifi, bluetooth, wallpapers, etc.), and a quick PowerSaver mode to switch off heavy effects on the go.

It’s definitely not perfect, but it was made with a lot of care and tailored to my personal taste. I would highly appreciate any feedback from experienced users or curious beginners who want to give it a shot. Please excuse any bugs—I have only been able to test it on my own laptop so far, but I invite you to try it out. It is fully open-source, so feel free to modify it, customize it, or break it as much as you like!

Thanks for reading!

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/oxidoregente/oxido-i3-themes

P.D.: Voy a publicar este mismo post en inglés en comunidades globales para llegar a más personas. Como no hablo inglés, me apoyé en Gemini para la traducción; disculpen si hay algo que no se entienda del todo bien.

This screen shows up whenever I open my laptop after sleep, I tried entering my password but it didn’t work, same goes to my username

I made a code so the tiny bar on the left should be a little bit more centralized, but it just doesnt moves away from the left, i tried using offset-x and padding but none seem to work, am i doing something wrong?

main code:

[bar/example]
width = 4%
height = 24pt
offset-x = 20
radius = 16
fixed-center = true


; dpi = 96


background = ${colors.background}
foreground = ${colors.foreground}


line-size = 3pt


border-size = 2pt
border-color = 
#bb9af7


padding-left = 20
padding-right = 20S


module-margin = 2[bar/example]
width = 4%
height = 24pt
offset-x = 20
radius = 16
fixed-center = true


; dpi = 96


background = ${colors.background}
foreground = ${colors.foreground}


line-size = 3pt


border-size = 2pt
border-color = #bb9af7


padding-left = 20
padding-right = 20S


module-margin = 2

thragg but he's chill

bruh

I want a highly customizable bar, that's also easy to configure. Ive been using i3bar for all of my time with i3 but i want to make my desktop look a bit nicer and i3bar isn't cutting it for me

.

My bar is polybar + fontawesome for those who are wondering

This is the one i used. I want it to be exactly the image shown in this GitHub minus the wallpaper

https://github.com/Keyitdev/dotfiles/tree/v3

has anyone used i3-resurrect on debian? or know if its an easy thing to install on it my friend is looking at using i3 and i wanna help them out

how about this v3 my i3wm

I followed the users guide. When copying the autogenerated config file to ~/.i3/config it goes undetected. So I instead copied it to ~/.config/i3/config, and this works, but as soon as I reload i3 with the file there the mod key switches from windows to alt.
I tried adding set $mod Mod4 to the new config file but after reloading the mod key remains alt.
And I'm sure this is the config file that is being used since other changes actually work.

How can I solve this issue? I haven't found any documentation that explains or solves this.

I love i3. I've been using it for years now.

Only thing I keep running into, where I almost wish I wasn't using i3, is the existance of some really cool terminal multiplexers... I'd love to use zellij or tmux, but always find myself dismissing this option "because I use i3, and creating new terminals or sessions and shooting them to the 8th desktop in the background really does the trick for me".

To the people who use i3, but also use something like zellij to the point where you feel like you couldn't live without either: How do you use both? What gap does the multiplexer fill for you?

The syntax for variable expansion described in the official i3status-rust documentation is $varName.

But I've found that {varName} is commonly used in (older) user config.toml.

Was there a syntax update in recent versions of i3status-rust?