dotfiles

My personal i3wm rig on EndeavourOS (Arch-based) — a tiling setup tuned for a fast, keyboard-driven workflow.

Built on the EndeavourOS i3 Community Edition base, then customized: autotiling, Polybar, picom compositor, a modern rofi launcher, redshift, and a plugin-based Vim.

✨ Highlights

• WM: i3 + autotiling (balanced splits along the longer edge)
• Bar: Polybar — workspaces, window title, CPU/RAM/temp, volume, network, battery, tray
• Compositor: picom — transparency, blur, shadows, fades, rounded corners
• Launcher: rofi — modern centered menu with icons (Mod+d)
• Terminal: Alacritty (JetBrainsMono Nerd Font)
• Editor: Vim + vim-plug (gruvbox, NERDTree, fzf, airline, gitgutter…)
• Shell: Bash + fzf (Ctrl-R/Ctrl-T/Alt-C), zoxide, eza, bat
• Notifications: dunst · Clipboard: copyq · Night light: redshift
• Theme: Arc-Dark + Qogir-Dark icons + gruvbox accents

⌨️ Key bindings (mod = Super/Win)

Keys	Action
Mod+Enter	Terminal (Alacritty)
Mod+d	App launcher (rofi)
Mod+q	Close window
Mod+h/j/k/l	Focus left/down/up/right
Mod+Shift+h/j/k/l	Move window
Mod+v / Mod+Shift+v	Split below / split right
Mod+r	Resize mode
Mod+f	Fullscreen
Mod+minus	Toggle scratchpad dropdown terminal
Mod+c	Clipboard history (copyq)
Mod+Escape	Lock screen
Print	Screenshot (flameshot)
F1	Keybinding cheat-sheet

📦 Dependencies

sudo pacman -S --needed \
  i3-wm i3lock polybar picom rofi dunst alacritty \
  autotiling redshift copyq flameshot brightnessctl playerctl \
  feh xss-lock xorg-xset \
  vim fzf ripgrep fd zoxide eza bat \
  ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd noto-fonts

Vim plugins install on first launch via vim-plug (:PlugInstall).

🚀 Install

git clone https://github.com/b1shtream/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
./install.sh            # symlinks configs into ~ (backs up anything existing)
# or: ./install.sh --copy   to copy instead of symlink

Existing files are moved to ~/.dotfiles-backup/<timestamp>/ before linking — nothing is overwritten silently. Then log out and back in, or restart i3 with Mod+Shift+R.

📁 Layout

.config/
  i3/         alacritty/   polybar/   rofi/
  dunst/      redshift/    picom.conf
  gtk-3.0/    gtk-4.0/     xsettingsd/  nwg-look/
  btop/       htop/        neofetch/    nano/
.bashrc
.vimrc
install.sh

🙏 Credits

i3 base configuration and scripts from the EndeavourOS i3wm setup.

License

MIT © 2026 Riya Bisht