Haunted Tiles

Sway
i3

Haunted Tiles is my personal i3 WM and Sway setup, along with essential tiling WM tools like notification daemon, app launcher, and Bash/Python scripts to bring some of the DE experience to minimal tiling WMs. It used to be a part of my dotfiles repository, and with the growing size of configurations and shared scripts between i3 and Sway, I made a separate repository for it.

Both sets of configuration strive to be a minimal setup that gets out of your way while providing practical features and being aesthetically pleasing. The overall theme is Dracula, hence the name "Haunted"-tiles (it's also partially because I like naming everything).

Feel free to check out:

• Theovim, my Neovim configuration
• Rest of my dotfiles

i3 Dependencies

These are packages that get directly called in the i3 config or one of the scripts:

• Brightnessctl: Backlight control
• CopyQ: Clipboard manager
• Dunst: Notification daemon
• Feh: Wallpaper
• Flameshot: Screenshot on X
• i3lock: Simple lock program
• network-manager-applet: GUI network manager
• Picom: Compositor
• Polybar: This is where all the ricing takes place
• Redshift: Blue light filter/nightlight/nightshift
• Rofi: App and custom power menu launcher
• setxkbmap: Swap caps lock and control, your pinky will thank you
• xinput: Enabling trackpad natural scrolling and tap-to-click
• xss-lock: Calling i3lock before suspending

Not necessary but helpful packages:

• Blueman: GUI Bluetooth manager
• Pavucontrol: Volume control for Pulseaudio (or Pipewire that pretends to be Pulseaudio)

Sway Dependencies

• Clipman & wl-clipboard: Wayland clipboard utility (wl-clipboard) and terminal command-line clipboard history manager (clipman)
• fzf: I use fzf as a rofi replacement in some scripts. As Rofi becomes stable in Wayland, this won't be necessary
• Gammastep: Redshift replacement
• Grim & Slurp: Select a region in Wayland compositor (Slurp) and take a screenshot (Grim)
• Waybar: The bar

Installation

• Installation script will prompt you before creating a symlink for each configuration file
• If there is a file/directory in the destination, it will be moved to ~/haunted-tiles.bak
• Make sure you have Nerd Font installed! Haunted-tiles uses CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font.

git clone  ~/.config/haunted-tiles
~/.config/haunted-tiles/install.sh

Keybindings

Most of the default i3/Sway keybindings are kept. Notable keybindings include:

• $mod is the super key
• $mod + Return: opens terminal
• $mod + hjkl: focuses the left, down, up, or right window
• $mod + Shift + hjkl: moves the current window to left, down, up, or right
• $mod + f: toggles the full-screen mode
• $mod + s/w/e: toggles the stacking, tabbed, or split (tiling) layout
• $mod + Shift space: toggles floating mode for the current window
• $mod + 1-9: moves to workspace 1 - 9
• $mod + Shift + 1-9: moves the current window to workspace 1 - 9
• $mod + r: enters the resize mode

For the complete list of keybindings, reference the config file.

List of keybindings differing from the default i3/Sway:

• jkl; -> hjkl
• $mod + h -> $mod + z: toggle hori[z]ontal split
• $mod + Space: launches Rofi (you can also use the default $mod+d)
• $mod + Shift + c/r/e: launches i3_mode/sway_mode, from which you can choose to reload the config, restart, or exit i3/Sway
• $mod + Shift + p: launches a Rofi menu with power options (lock, suspend, shutdown, etc.)
• $mod + Shift + s: launches the screenshot tool
• $mod + Shift + v: launches the clipboard manager

Sway only keybindings:

• $mod + Shift + Return: simulates the "Cat Menu" of X11 Polybar (see the Polybar section below) in the form of a floating fzf script
• $mod + Shift + r: clears clipboard history (replaces one of the i3_mode keybindings, since there is no "[r]estart" in Sway)

Polybar

• Clicking the cat icon in the top left gives you hidden options
  • Current Spotify music
  • Weather using wttr.in
  • Toggle do not disturb
  • Toggle compositor (Picom)
  • Toggle nightlight (redshift)
• You can mute sound by clicking the volume icon
• You can view the current month's calendar by clicking the date
  • You can view the last month's calendar by right-clicking the date

Credits

• The artwork for the logo, solar system wallpaper, and lock screen are done by my girlfriend Naomi. If you are using one of the images, please credit her by crediting this repository
• Wallpapers in ./assets/dracula-wallpaper/ are from the official Dracula wallpaper collection
• sway-launcher-desktop is included
• ./scripts/spotify.py is heavily based on polybar-spotify