https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/i3-gaps-dotfiles/-/issues/4 has been submitted.

• Added the capability to toggle gaps
• Restructured the i3 config and its folder
• Improvements/tweaks

As a result, the i3-gaps-dotfiles package has to be updated and the name of i3-gaps-dotfiles needs to be updated to i3-dotfiles instead.

Can I request your assistance in achieving this?

Thanks in advance.

https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/kali-meta/-/merge_requests/29 has been submitted:

• Migrate kali-desktop-i3-gaps' dependencies to kali-desktop-i3
• Remove kali-desktop-i3-gaps

As of now, TODO 0000001, #2 and #3 has been submitted. 0000004 will have to be done by the Kali Team.

Meant to say TODO 1, 2 and 3. Apologies for that referencing issue.

I'm performing some additional tweaks to i3-dotfiles, mostly aesthetical stuff. If need be, please update the package and I'll create a new issue + ticket for the other changes to be packaged. Thanks in advance.

Hello Arszilla! I should have time to look into that this week, I hope. Sorry that it took so long to answer. It's been very busy those last weeks.

5. (OPTIONAL) A variant-i3 will be added to live-build-config

It already exists, there's a variant i3wm (arguably it should be renamed to i3). Did you try it?

I must've typed it half-way. I meant it as in I'll push a PR/MR after I edit the live-build-script to reflect the changes done overall, and how the ISO and its contents should be/look like at the end.

Forgot to update this ticket. I'll update the variant-i3 in live-build-config later this week hopefully. Other than that, this ticket can be closed.

Thanks for your assistance arnaudr!

Much welcome! What do you want to update in live-build-config? The variant i3 is already good I think:

<pre>
$ cat kali-config/variant-i3wm/package-lists/kali.list.chroot

Live image

You always want these:

kali-linux-core
kali-desktop-live

Metapackages

You can customize the set of Kali metapackages (groups of tools) to install

For the complete list see: https://tools.kali.org/kali-metapackages

#kali-linux-core
#kali-tools-top10
kali-linux-default
#kali-linux-large
#kali-linux-everything

Graphical desktop

kali-desktop-i3

Kali applications

</pre>

kali-desktop-i3 is now i3 with i3-dotfiles, so it's all good I think, unless I'm missing something?

The hooks :)

I've made a PR/MR to fix it. I've also fixed the formatting on build.sh to be better (IMO): https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/live-build-config/-/merge_requests/30

You can cherry-pick and drop build.sh if you find it too "radical"/"drastic". But other than that, the hooks are needed to fix a few small "issues" with pulseaudio, and to copy the dotfiles. Otherwise, the user does not have a usable Kali i3 with live-build-config.

I left some comments on the MR. Please follow up on the MR, I'm closing this ticket to avoid having two discussions on parallel. Thanks!