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base16-i3

This repository is meant to work with chriskempson/base16. It provides a simple template that can be used with the base16 color schemes to generate a functional config file for i3/i3, a tiling and dynamic window manager.

To use, you can copy one of the config files in themes/ or use curl. First up, you'll want to generate a starting i3 configuration using i3-config-wizard. Then you can

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/khamer/base16-i3/master/themes/base16-default-dark.config >> ~/.config/i3/config

Note that this will create a second bar because it provides a bar { ... } section. You can choose which you'd like.

Alternatively, you can fetch just the base16 colors in a format for the i3 config to use them as variables:

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/khamer/base16-i3/master/colors/base16-default-dark.config >> ~/.config/i3/config

The benefit of this approach is you can reference the base16 colors through out your configuration if you want to customize it further (in particular, customize your bar { ... }.)

For example, you might want to put the bulk of your configuration in ~/.config/i3/base, reference the base16 variables, and then use a binding like this:

bindsym $mod+Shift+c exec "cat .config/i3/colors .config/i3/base > .config/i3/config && i3-msg reload"

So you can now run

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/khamer/base16-i3/master/colors/base16-default-dark.config > ~/.config/i3/colors

And hit $mod + Shift + c to load in the new colors.

You can also fetch the separate bar colors and client properties sections of the full config from the bar-colors and client-properties directories.