vincentbernat.i3wm-configuration/README.md

Vincent Bernat's awesome configuration
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This is my [awesome](http://awesome.naquadah.org) configuration. It
does not exactly feature the same keybindings as the default
configuration. I don't recommend using it by you can pick anything you
need in it.

I rely on machine hostname for some configuration parts (see
`rc/start.lua`) for the most important part.

Here some of the things you may be interested in:

 - It is modular. I am using `config` as a table to pass different
   things between "modules".
 - In `rc/start.lua`, there is a `xrun` function which runs a program
   only if it is not already running. Instead of relying on tools like
   `ps`, it looks at the list of the connected clients with
   `xwininfo`. Seems reliable.
 - I use a light transparency effect to tell if a window has the focus
   or not. It needs a composite manager.
 - I use a Python script `bin/build-wallpaper` to build the wallpaper
   to be displayed. There is a random selection and it works with
   multihead setup. It seems that classic tools are now able to change
   the wallpaper per screen and therefore, the script may seem a bit
   useless but I keep it.
 - I am using `xautolock` + `i3lock` as a screensaver. Nothing fancy
   but I reuse the wallpaper built above.
 - In `rc/theme.lua`, you may be interested by the way I configure
   GTK2 and GTK3 to have an unified look. It works and it does not
   need `gnome-control-center`.
 - I am sharing tags between screen with
   [sharetags](http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Shared_tags). I am
   also giving names to tags: I access them with something like
   `config.tags.emacs`.