i3wm Windows Manager

This role installs and configures i3wm and its dependencies.

Role Variables

This role has severall variables to specify the install behavior.

i3wm_i3wm_packages:
  - i3-wm
  - libglvnd
  - dmenu

You can override this variable to specifiy other packages to install, If you do this you have to add i3wm as well to this variable.

i3wm_statusbar_package: i3status This installs the status bar tool to provide information about your system and calls the JSON API of i3bar

i3wm_diplay_locker_package: i3lock The lock manager. defaults to i3lock

i3wm_additional_packages Here you can add packages as a list, if you wand to install more packages dependent on your system and window manager. e.g: i3blocks, acpi etc.

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: thielking.i3wm, i3wm_additional_packages: acpi }