hax

Generate a zero-config Hacky Hackpecker setup using i3-gaps, conky and polybar.

Install

Installation's made easy by the Makefile.

make install

Add ~/bin to your PATH as that's where hax is installed to.

Usage

Once installed, run hax -h for details on how to use it.

Or run it with the defaults with hax, but read the notes below first.

⚠️ WARNING When ran, hax will overwrite the files listed below, so you might want to back those up first. Otherwise you might hate me for the rest of your life.

• ~/.config/polybar/config
• ~/.config/i3/config
• ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf unless another terminal's specified in the options
• ~/.xinitrc
• ~/.Xresources

Terminal

The default terminal used by hax is kitty, for which a config is generated. You can easily specify another terminal of your choice instead.

# Use st - suckless simple terminal
hax -t "st"

Note however that kitty is currently the only terminal for which a config is generated, meaning that you'll have to either edit the script, or create the config manually, if you decide to use another terminal. This is easily done though.

Font

The font used in the screenshots is JetBrains Mono which you'll find here

Other dependencies

• i3-gaps
• polybar
• conky
• xsetroot (used by hax and ~/.xinitrc to set background color)
• pacman (Arch Linux) (for conky package manager details)
• pamixer (for i3 volume control and conky volume details)
• xbacklight (for i3 brightness control and conky brightness details)
• ... Perhaps something else I've forgotten to mention

Notes

The widths, heights, paddings, and offsets for conky and i3 and polybar etc are mostly hard coded, meaning they won't work very well on varying screen sizes. Unless of course your screen size happens to match mine exactly. I'm on a 3200x1800 pixel screen, so you'll have to fiddle around with the configs to suit your needs.

This can all be made dynamic of course, at least to some extent. The tricky part, or one of them at least, is getting the conky panels to match the screen's height (we want them full height - no more, no less). But fixing all that to happen automagically is not something I'll be looking into right now.

With some fiddling you'll be able to adjust the conky, i3 and polybar config details in hax to suit your screen, I hope.

FAQ

"This is a joke, right?"

Not necessarily. Although I lean towards simpler setups, this type of visually hectic setups apparently float some people's boats. So I thought I'd put together something they might want to use.