Quick entry explaining the steps that I followed to adapt this guide on Debian Buster.
Backup
First of all backup your current i3wm configuration, these steps are based on a previous i3wm installation, that depends on where your settings files are located:
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (buster)
Release: testing
Codename: buster
$ cd ~ && cp .i3/config .i3/config.OLD.`date +%Y%m%d`
$ cp .conkyrc .conkyrc.OLD.`date +%Y%m%d`
# apt-get update
Installing Polybar
Let’s start with the most difficult requirement Polybar installation on Debian GNU/Linux, Polybar dependencies have been found in this reddit discussion:
# apt install cmake cmake-data libcairo2-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-util0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev pkg-config python-xcbgen xcb-proto libxcb-xrm-dev i3-wm libasound2-dev libmpdclient-dev libiw-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
Building Polybar:
$ git clone https://github.com/jaagr/polybar.git
$ cd polybar && ./build.sh
...
[100%] Built target polybar
** Execute 'sudo make install'? [Y/n]
** Install example configuration? [Y/n]:
** Build complete!
# make install
** Installing...
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/aitor/Downloads/polybar/build'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/aitor/Downloads/polybar/build'
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/aitor/Downloads/polybar/build'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/aitor/Downloads/polybar/build'
[ 5%] Built target xpp
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/aitor/Downloads/polybar/build'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/aitor/Downloads/polybar/build'
[100%] Built target polybar
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/aitor/Downloads/polybar/build'
Install the project...
-- Install configuration: "RelWithDebInfo"
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/doc/polybar/config
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/polybar
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_polybar
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_polybar_msg
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/man/man1/polybar.1
-- Installing: /usr/local/bin/polybar
Installing rofi and compton
# apt install rofi compton
i3wm-themer
Download i3wm-themer public GitHub repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/unix121/i3wm-themer
If you want you can use the script to make a new backup just to be able to restore your current theme:
$ cd i3wm-themer/scripts && ./i3wmthemer -b XXX_theme
Just the first time run this:
$ cd i3wm-themer/scripts && ./i3wmthemer -c
And to apply a theme:
$ cd i3wm-themer/scripts && ./i3wmthemer -t THEME_NAME
That’s all!
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“To act is to exile yourself”
— Fernando Pessoa
Did you have any issues with the fonts & glyphs rendering correctly? I’m currently having this issue under Stretch.
Thank you for your comment, answering your question no, in my case I wasn’t experiment any issues with the fonts, but you could review /var/log/syslog file to find some error. Anyway this is the content of my ~/.fonts directory:
$ ls .fonts/
DroidSans-Bold.ttf DroidSansMono.ttf fontawesome-regular.sh fontawesome-webfont.ttf Inconsolata-Regular.ttf monof56.ttf
DroidSansFallback.ttf DroidSans.ttf fontawesome-regular.ttf Hack-Regular.ttf monof55.ttf
Good luck!
Also you can improve Debian fonts setup creating a file ~/.fonts.conf with the following content:
https://github.com/pid1/dotfiles/blob/master/fontconfig/fonts.conf
And you can add more fonts downloading Ubuntu fonts to your installation, following these steps:
https://github.com/Lend27/linuxstuff/blob/master/DebUbuntuFonts