Configuring i3 window titlebar in Qubes

[Jarle Thorsen]

Having Qubes automatically give the titlebar of the windows the same coulour as defined for the VM is a nice thing.

However I would like to make it more easy to visually identify which window is in focus, the change of colour for focused windows is too subtle for me.I would like to use bold text in the title for example, or make the change of colour less subtle.

Is this something I can change myself, or is this hard-coded into the qubes version of i3 window manager?

[Paras Chetal]

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The colours seem to be hard-coded here [1]. You will have to make your
own changes and then build from source as mentioned in the docs [2].

I tried changing the config.focused property in the i3 config file,
but the patch file seems to overwrite the user settings [3].


Regards,
Paras Chetal


[1]:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-i3/blob/qubes-3.1/i3/0001
- -Show-qubes-domain-in-non-optional-colored-borders.patch#L200

[2]: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/i3/

[3]:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-i3/blob/qubes-3.1/i3/0001
- -Show-qubes-domain-in-non-optional-colored-borders.patch#L89
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[Jarle Thorsen]

Paras Chetal:

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> On 06/15/2017 03:44 PM, Jarle Thorsen wrote:
> > Having Qubes automatically give the titlebar of the windows the
> > same coulour as defined for the VM is a nice thing.
> >
> > However I would like to make it more easy to visually identify
> > which window is in focus, the change of colour for focused windows
> > is too subtle for me.I would like to use bold text in the title for
> > example, or make the change of colour less subtle.
> >
> > Is this something I can change myself, or is this hard-coded into
> > the qubes version of i3 window manager?
> >
> The colours seem to be hard-coded here [1]. You will have to make your
> own changes and then build from source as mentioned in the docs [2].
>
> I tried changing the config.focused property in the i3 config file,
> but the patch file seems to overwrite the user settings [3].
>
>
> Regards,
> Paras Chetal
>
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-i3/blob/qubes-3.1/i3/0001
> - -Show-qubes-domain-in-non-optional-colored-borders.patch#L200
>
> [2]: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/i3/
>
> [3]:
> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-i3/blob/qubes-3.1/i3/0001
> - -Show-qubes-domain-in-non-optional-colored-borders.patch#L89

Thank you, guess I'll have to compile then...

[jkitt]

Strange.. because I've never had to do that, yet my title bar is automagically colored. I think I'm using the package from the testing repo, and also the qubes i3 config found on the wiki.

[Jarle Thorsen]

jkitt:

> Strange.. because I've never had to do that, yet my title bar is automagically colored. I think I'm using the package from the testing repo, and also the qubes i3 config found on the wiki.

I also have automagically coloring working, I just wanted to be able to edit the settings to make focused windows stand out more from the non-focused windows.