• From: Kowloon
  • Registered: 2011-10-13
  • Posts: 407

Topic: [Solved] Noob questions about i3?

Hi, I am new to i3, and I begin to love it more than Openbox. So I have removed Openbox altogether.

But I don't know how I can do the following under i3 environment?

1) How do I get a warning when my battery is dying? Is there a way to make a pop up window to warn me?

2) How can I change the GTK theme when I am using i3?

I have tried
creating settings.ini

nano ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

And put this 

[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = Shiki-sStatler-Dark
gtk-icon-theme-name = elementaryXubuntu-dark
gtk-fallback-icon-theme = gnome
# next option is applicable only if selected $
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme = true
# set font name and dimension
gtk-font-name = Sans 10

But it doesn't change the theme?? Please help.  thanks

Last edited by kowloonboy (2012-01-18 19:57:37)

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  • From: Tampere, Finland
  • Registered: 2011-08-16
  • Posts: 17

Re: [Solved] Noob questions about i3?

kowloonboy wrote:

2) How can I change the GTK theme when I am using i3?

If you want to use gtk2 themes, you could try lxappearance (though it's segfaulting away in Wheezy and multiple other distros) or gtk-chtheme...

I use either ~/.gtkrc-2.0 or gtk-chtheme in i3 depenging on how one handed I feel at the moment.

I really can't answer to the gtk3 things, haven't had the time to find about that stuff.

  • From: Kowloon
  • Registered: 2011-10-13
  • Posts: 407

Re: [Solved] Noob questions about i3?

@tenkainen: Thanks I install gtk-chtheme and now my windows are nice and dark again. Thanks.

What do you use to warn you about battery?

Last edited by kowloonboy (2012-01-18 16:59:50)

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  • From: Kowloon
  • Registered: 2011-10-13
  • Posts: 407

Re: [Solved] Noob questions about i3?

It's ok, I put inside the .i3/config

exec xfce4-power-manager

And it is going to do the job.

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