🌸 i3wm Dotfiles – Aesthetic + Functional Tiling Setup

Welcome to my personal i3wm dotfiles! This repo contains my fully themed and customized i3 window manager configuration, designed for a clean, minimal, and highly functional workflow — all wrapped in a gorgeous Catppuccin Mocha Rosewater-inspired theme.

📸 Additional Previews

🌊 Dock Preview

⚡ Power Menu

✨ Features

• 🚀 Lightweight and fast tiling window manager (i3-gaps)
• 🧠 Smooth and responsive keybindings for productivity
• 🎨 Beautiful Catppuccin Mocha Rosewater color scheme across all components
• 🔒 Sleek i3lock setup with blur + rounded corners
• 🎛 Custom Rofi menus: launcher, powermenu, wifi menu, askpass, confirm
• 🎵 Polybar with Spotify module, CPU/RAM, i3 workspaces, and more
• 📦 Minimal yet complete dotfiles for fast deployment
• 🖋 Fonts: JetBrains Mono, Manrope, RecMonoCasual Nerd Font

🧰 Tools Used

Tool	Purpose
i3-gaps	Tiling window manager
Polybar	Status bar
Rofi	App launcher and menus
i3lock	Lock screen
feh / nitrogen	Wallpaper setting
picom	Compositor with blur & shadow
dunst	Notification daemon
alacritty / kitty	Terminal emulator
playerctl	Media control for Polybar

🎨 Theming

Everything is themed using the Catppuccin Mocha Rosewater palette. This includes:

• Rofi menus (launcher, powermenu, wifi.rasi, etc.)
• Polybar modules
• i3 borders and gaps
• Lock screen
• Notifications

🔧 Installation

⚠️ This setup is tailored for Kali Linux with i3wm. Use at your own risk and back up existing configs!

git clone https://github.com/Dragonslayer-9095/I3wm.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles

Now use the files by moving them to the appropriate directories

🧠 What I Learned

Throughout this rice and dotfiles journey, I picked up a ton of valuable knowledge and skills:

Concept / Tool	What I Learned / Did
i3wm + i3-gaps	Deep understanding of window manager configuration, workspace behavior, and keybinds
Polybar	Creating and customizing modules, integrating system info and media controls
Rofi	Building custom menus (power, wifi, launcher) with themes and interactivity
i3lock	Theming with blur, lock screen visuals, and systemd-based lock integration
Picom	Tweaking animations, shadows, blur, and opacity for a polished UX
Dunst	Styling and positioning notifications with urgency levels
Alacritty / Kitty	Minimal terminal configuration, font rendering, and transparency
Playerctl	Media integration in Polybar
Git/GitHub	Version-controlling dotfiles, branch management, handling merge conflicts
Screenshot tools	Using flameshot, binding screenshot keys, delay-based capture for popups
Shell scripting	Automating setup via install.sh, symlinking configs with checks

Bonus: Got much better at reading manpages and debugging system-level quirks (hello, ~/.config/i3/config 😅)

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