Just a small topic, I have been using Fedora with i3 for over a year now have have discovered that to set it up you are on a very DIY journey. So in case anybody would like to see some of the bits and pieces that I have encountered have a look at this
Or my stuff on gitlab
DH
Nice! There were also a few magazine posts on using i3, for example:
If youiâre up for it, you could get in touch with the i3 SIG and maybe help them add bits to their documentation?
Can you provide that google docs info in something better open source
So it is easy for us to help
You can also read it here: -
Fedora - i3 set up
Meta = the windows key or the key you chose on initial i3 setup.
To install from the live iso open terminal with meta + enter and type âliveinstâ this will launch the Anaconda installer or meta+d type liveinst and start it that way.
At this point I assume that if you are installing Fedora i3 you must be familiar with Anaconda.
Your choice of terminal like Terminator or xfce4-terminal
Tumbler - for thumbnails in Thunar
Nitrogen - add this to your i3 config âexec nitrogen --restore &â the iso does come with âfehâ but I am lazy and prefer the GUI method for wallpaper management.
Xarchiver
Xed - a lightweight text editor
Lxappearance plus themes of your choice. (I find that XFCE appearance will not apply themes)
Lxpolkit - add this to your i3 config âexec --no-startup-id lxpolkitâ then when you open gparted or thunar as root youâll receive an access to prompt for the root password.
Picom - for transparency etc. Add this to your i3 config âexec picom -CGb &â.
Bluez
Blueman - add this to the i3 config âexec --no-startup-id blueman-appletâ to start the sys-tray applet.
beesu (allows you to open programs as root)
Use beesu instead of gsku with thunar in custom actions to allow âopen Thunar as rootâ a little more on opening thunar as root this can be found at: -
Open thunar as root here
Name: Open thunar as root here
Command: gksu thunar %f (beesu thunar %f works for me & pkexec).
File pattern: *
Appears if selection contains: Directories
Note: Some distributions no longer include gksu. Use pkexec instead.
virtualbox
https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-virtualbox-on-fedora-linux/
Rofi âsudo dnf install rofiâ add this to your i3 config place it below the dmenu entry âbindsym $mod+d exec rofi -show run" and # out the dmenu entry. Save and reload the config âmeta + râ test it, and it should work fine.
Vivaldi
i3gaps
before installing i3-gaps you need to remove i3 then install i3-gaps before you logout, reboot or meta+shift+r. Or you will not have a WM!
My i3 config can be found here feel free to copy and use it
Bumblebee-Status
Install âpipâ then install bumblebee-status with pip as described on the website.
pip install --user bumblebee-status
When you install Bumblebee, you need to navigate to .local/bin and copy bumblebee-status to .config/bumblebee-status/bumblebee-status (note this is a new folder you need to create)
Fonts
Meslo Nerd Fonts - https://www.nerdfonts.com (Works well for powerlevel10k and the glyphs in bumblebee-status)
sudo dnf install powerline-fonts fontawesome-fonts
dnf copr enable evana/fira-code-fonts
dnf install fira-code-fonts
git clone GitHub - horst3180/arc-icon-theme --depth 1 && cd arc-icon-theme
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
sudo make install
nextcloud-client
Add âexec --no-startup-id nextcloudâ to your i3 config
#ohmyzsh
#zsh-users these are plugins
fish shell
Thanks for sharing on how to enable tap to click.
Enter this into your terminal: -
sudo mkdir -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d && sudo tee <<'EOF' /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-touchpad.conf 1> /dev/null
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Driver "libinput"
Option "Tapping" "on"
EndSection
EOF
Logout then back in and it should be good to go.
It worked 
Iâm careful of further tweaks as I had a hard time setting up. Iâll keep using the default urxvt as it is customized to my preference.