How to change the system bar

Getting my system more tweaked for me. I’m wondering where I find the info to change the bar’s position and color. I saw the icons for the bar and some other related configs looking through the config files, but I seemed to be lost as to where those two other settings are.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

You can always read the documentation for gudance… https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html

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~/.config/i3/i3blocks.conf

  • defines the output on the bar

~/.config/i3/config

  • bar { line 415 starts the starter and main config for the bar
  • Line 385 color settings used also in the bar

bar position: position bottom
bar color:

		    colors {
		    separator          $purple
		    background         $darkgrey
		    statusline         $white
#                          		border 		        bg		txt		indicator
		focused_workspace	$mediumgrey	   	$grey		$darkgrey	$purple
		active_workspace	$lightblue      	$mediumgrey	$darkgrey	$purple
		inactive_workspace	$darkgrey   		$darkgrey	$grey		$purple
		urgent_workspace	$urgentred	    	$urgentred	$white		$purple 
	}
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######################################
# color settings for bar and windows #
######################################
 
# Define colors variables: 
set $darkbluetrans	#08052be6
set $darkblue		#08052b
set $lightblue		#5294e2
set $urgentred		#e53935
set $white		#ffffff
set $black		#000000
set $purple		#e345ff
set $darkgrey		#383c4a
set $grey		#b0b5bd
set $mediumgrey		#8b8b8b
set $yellowbrown	#e1b700
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Thanks @joekamprad! That did it for me. I know I glossed over these looking over the files and none of my ctrl+f searches in the i3 docs were helping me.

i was fighting with understanding the configs in the beginning too, as I come from using GNOME to i3 :wink:

I came over from Regolith which is a combo of i3 and Gnome. So a handful of things were easy to find and update, like key bindings.

Welcome to Endeavouros + purple side of Arch… :pray: for try out EOS i3 :+1:

Thanks! I’m really digging it so far.

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