Configuration stations

There’s an awful lot of customisation that these tools deserve and not a lot of space to talk about it. For example, if you don’t like i3’s default font (or if, as was the case for us, it doesn’t render properly) you can install the Dejavu fonts with # pacman -S ttf-dejavu and uncommenting the font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono 8

line, and commenting the previous (and slightly amorphous) monospace font declaration, in ~/.config/i3/config. Check the documentation for any other changes you might like to make here.

Urxvt is configured by the ~/.Xresources file. To change it to a hacker-style dark background and have a right-handed, simple scrollbar, use the directives:

Urxvt.background: black Urxvt.foreground: white Urxvt.scrollstyle: plain Urxvt.scrollBar_right: true

To re-read this file without having to log back in, you can do: $ xrdb .Xresources

Again, volumes have been written about beautifying your terminal through this file, and we’d encourage you to check those out.