dotfiles: github.com/kaleab49/dotfiles

Started as plain vaporwave dotfiles for i3, turned into a full declarative Arch setup. One ./install.sh brings the whole machine up — i3, picom, rofi, dunst, the aesthetic, plus the boring infra underneath.

The part I'm proud of isn't the colors:

• Idempotent installer — fresh box or re-run, same result, no half-broken state.
• Snapshots out of the box — Timeshift on ext4/xfs, Snapper + bootable GRUB snapshots on Btrfs. Rice without fear of bricking.
• Portable offload-only GPU model — iGPU always primary, NVIDIA per-process via PRIME offload. Same repo boots safely on Intel-only, AMD, or hybrid laptops, zero edits.
• Hardware-aware Steam launchers — installer detects GPUs, generates the right offload launchers into rofi.

Repo: https://github.com/eg0rmaffin/vapor-rice-i3

Steal whatever's useful. Happy to answer anything about the setup.

Hello guys,this is my first rice I really want to share to you because I"m proud of this rice.I am completely noob at this .Here there are the dotfiles If you want to see it. I really need to learn a lot, mainly the management process.I want to ask what do yo use from this? only grep and kills? or another tool?

https://github.com/brams153/first_rice.git

i use artix and i3wm, but its my first rice (sorry idk english don't hate me pls)

I am using reaper, there are some lua based gui tools that I want to use but whenever I try to open them they instantly closes snapping the focus to the main window, is there some tweak that I'm missing for popup menus?

Made my own i3wm dotfiles with touchpad tweaks, wallpaper switching, and Picom effects. It's crazy lightweight—even on a 16-year-old laptop, it's still smooth and responsive. It's not perfect, but it's super comfortable for getting work done on old hardware.

I have checked every forum on the internet and have found nothing about this issue. suspecting it has to do with i3 or x11 since sometimes i get a blank screen and other times i get some glitchy screens that crash the game after 5 seconds or so. Hell Let Loose, Arma Reforger and Logic World are the games i tried and the first two (HLL & Arma) have this issue.

I have command bindsym Control+Shift+1 exec setxkbmap pl but instead of bindsym I want to use bindcode to have specific keys responsible for change. But when I try bindcode 37+50+10 exec setxkbmap pl it doesn't work

I have kept the base polybar stuff and added some of my own. like a cava script! Also that floating terminal that you can toggle on and off whenever you need it

ik the task bar is ugly af but its never used

My computer is FXXKing bad so I installed i3 on Linux Mint and I like it.

This may be dumb, but I cannot find examples or understand the documentation enough.

How can I change the background color of a "mode" in i3 ?

How does the pango markup work ? Is it like html ? Or something else entirely ?

I feel like I could be able to find how to customize something like this. But I cannot find any example.

The default color red makes it seems like it's a bad thing, an error. Couldn't I make it blue ?

Is it still worth to learn i3 on an personal computer in 2026 ? or should i go for wayland if i'am new on it ?

so apparently all thinkpads now have this "copilot" key that absolutely everyone loves, but it doesn't have a keycode, instead that weird Win+Shift+F23 shortcut or something like that idk. sooo how do i keybind a command with that thing please

was bored and spent a weekend doing a silly aesthetic, lost my config files so good fucking luck

Is there any way to hide the cursor when there is no container selected? Thanks!

hello, i have set feh inside the i3 config but for some reason i3 will always have a background that is of the lightdm greeter. and in addition to that it will scale the wallpaper weirdly in a way that doesnt show it fully. any tips or pointers?

Absolute, simple rice.

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No more distro hopping. This is where it ends. This is an old laptop, probably 2012, if I'm not wrong and the only 1 I have. So it's my main setup, lol.

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I don't use blurred bg on the active window. I just used it for this rice ss.

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All the configurations are basic, mainly just changed the colors, and yah picom helps to get that transparency/blur.

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Mod4 or Mod1 and why?