i3configger 0.1.4

i3 config generation tool

Generate i3 config files from a set of partials in a config folder. Do some nifty conditional integration and variable resolution (also for i3status configs). This makes switching of themes (optical or via key binding or whatever) possible.

Why?

• To be able to switch parts of the config dynamically depending on selectors

• To be able to assign variables to variables and use variables in the status bar configurations

• To be able to split my long and messy config file in many short, aptly named, messy config partials

How?

This can best be understood by how I use this to generate my own i3 config - here are the config partias: .i3/config.d

The call

$ i3configger --select-host=$(hostname) --select-theme=solarized-dark

creates config and i3status.main.conf from the sources.

The idea is simple:

Config partials that follow the naming scheme <selector>.<name>.conf are only rendered into the config if explicitly requested.

• The partial host.ob1.conf will be rendered if the option --select-host-ob1 is passed to i3configger.

• The partial theme.solaris-dark.conf will only be rendered if --select-theme-solaris-dark.

host and theme are selector names I chose for my use case, but they can be freely chosen as long as the naming scheme is adhered to.

Features

• build main config and one or several i3status configs from the same sources

• render variables slightly more intelligently than i3 does it

• also render variables in i3status configs (set anywhere in the sources)

• reload or restart i3 when a change has been done (using i3-msg)

• notify when new config has been created and activated (using notify-send)

• simple way to render partials based on selectors (see example above)

• simple way to communicate settings to renderer ($i3configger_key value)

• build config as one shot script or watch for changes (foreground and daemon)

Some things are still in the air - see notes.

Installation

You should install this into a Python 3.6 interpreter.

i3configger is released on the Python Package Index. The standard installation method is:

$ pip install i3configger

Usage

Default uses ``.i3config`` files in ``~/.i3/config.d`` and writes to ``~/.i3/config``.

one shot:

$ i3configger

as daemon:

$ i3configger --daemon

more info:

$ i3configger --help