Efficient Window Management
i3 allows for highly efficient window management using a tree data structure, making it easy to snap windows into grids and manage multiple applications simultaneously.
Lightweight
i3 is deliberately simplistic and lightweight, which allows it to run efficiently on older hardware or systems with limited resources.
Customizability
Users can extensively customize keybindings and behavior through a plain text configuration file. This allows for a personalized workflow.
Keyboard-Centric
i3 is designed to be used primarily through keyboard shortcuts, which can lead to increased productivity for advanced users.
Scriptability
i3 supports various scripting languages through its IPC (Inter-process Communication) interface, enabling automation of complex workflows.
Community and Documentation
i3 has strong community support and extensive documentation, making it easier for new users to learn and troubleshoot issues.
I switched to the i3 tiling based window manager. Because it’s a whole different environment and thinking, it was very different from what I was used to. The volume buttons were working on my keyboard, but I didn’t get any visual feedback. Furthermore, the volume percentage could go down below zero and increase up to more than hundread percent. There were times when I was confused why the keys stopped working, but…
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3 months ago
This is partially why I use tools like i3 (/ sway). I like the tool; it works extremely well for me; the design has stayed the same for 20 years; there’s no profit motive to come along and fuck everything up. It just works. It is boring in the best way possible.
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10 months ago
I use MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid-2014) with Manjaro as OS using i3 as a window manager. It isn’t perfect, but I’m thrilled with it. I have been a Mac OS user for the last 15 years and wouldn’t change what I have now for a Mac OS because I don’t need more than what I’m using for development.
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about 1 year ago
For daily usage I really like kubuntu with i3wm, but it takes some configuration and getting used to the shortcuts, but it’s well worth it.
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over 1 year ago
Some window managers are meant to be used as-is, and provide a minimalist yet functional environment that use very little resources or give power users an almost HUD-like interface. Examples of those window managers are OpenBox and i3wm for X, and Weston and Hyprland for Wayland.
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over 1 year ago
I did use i3 exclusively for a few years. The reasons I chose it were.
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over 1 year ago
Well, it depends. It was better experience than FreeBSD 7.2 that’s for sure. 🙂 It was running Xorg with https://i3wm.org, a web-server, XMPP-server, PostgreSQL, few bots and dovecot / postfix (e-mail server). It was doing fine routing internet for 2PCs and a WiFi router for 10 years until its HDD died.
For gaming… erm… I was able to play something like Theme Hospital or Syndicate Wars in dosbox. You have to…
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over 1 year ago
Here’s another big one. I have an inflammatory condition that occasionally makes using a mouse painful and a trackpad very inaccurate. On a Mac, I’m just screwed. On Windows, I’m more screwed than I used to be (through XP, Windows was completely navigable via the keyboard, as was Office). On BSD or Linux, I can replace the GUI with programs like Sway or i3, which not only makes the UI more keyboard-friendly,…
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over 1 year ago
This one’s a bit trickier. Usually, what newer Linux users are told is that what they’re probably after is a new Desktop Environment or Window Manager. If you’re frustrated with the way Gnome Desktop (https://www.gnome.org/) works, then looking at KDE Plasma (https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/) may be a good idea and vice-versa. Some users find that they prefer working almost solely with the keyboard rather than a…
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over 1 year ago
This sounds like a keychain issue. No recent i3 experience so check the wiki and https://i3wm.org.
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over 1 year ago
The ideal place to use Shadow (for me) is on a 2013 macbook pro that Apple has shuffled off of it’s update line. The library of apps that work on it is dwindling, but it’s still a capable machine. I put Manjaro Linux with i3wm on it and it’s been covering all of my gaming and Windows related tasks quite well this way.
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over 1 year ago
So when I said “window manager based Linux” I was mostly referring to the stereotypes of the Linux window manager; which 1 person not even having a mouse; staring apps; moving windows doing everything with their keyboard. If you wanna look a bit more into window managers for windows the only “okay” one that I’ve personally used is bug.n and for Linux there’s tons; but my personal fav is I3.
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over 1 year ago
This is basically a status bar content implementation that speaks the i3bar protocol, for the i3 window manager, and is designed to be used as a replacement for i3’s own i3status. I’ve written plugins for things like: date/time, disk free space, pulseaudio volume, CPU usage, free RAM, weather, Bitcoin ticker, etc. I use Linux and OpenBSD regularly, so the plugins cover compatibility with at least those two. …
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over 1 year ago
I have noticed in one of your comments in this thread that you are looking for novel ideas of the UI look. As others commenters stated, you might be interested in tiling window managers like i3 [0] or sway [1]. They are truly a gem for productivity and sometimes for an eye [2]. However, I love the concept of scrollable window manager like PaperWM [3] is. When I had a smaller screen (24″ 16:9) I was complaining a…
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over 1 year ago
I started off using i3wm a while back which made the migration to swaywm pretty seamless. Most of the migration/config was finding wayland-native alternatives for various utilities (screenshot, notification daemon, some applications) but there are lots of helpful blog posts (below).
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over 1 year ago
Since Sway is a port of https://i3wm.org/ to Wayland, for enlightening I suggest you look for info on the latter.
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over 1 year ago
i3 is probably the most well-documented and well-supported, and has a pretty simple configuration syntax.
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over 1 year ago
It is a suggestion to install i3wm https://i3wm.org/ instead of gnome/KDE/xfce etc.. Check out some videos first, you might not like it.. Forces you to take a step back and rethink how you interact with your desktop.
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over 1 year ago
> Dock to a different dock (hot-desking; same brand and size of monitor) and the entire display options need to be re-written – no option to preserve it Does anything do this properly? I use i3[0], and wrote some super janky automation to preserve my layouts when I switched from dock to no dock and back. It has the concept of layouts that can be stored/loaded. So I had a script that would dump the layout, I had to…
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over 1 year ago
On video thumbnail of the font page: https://i3wm.org/, there is a vertical split, then in the right side of the vert split, another vertical split, which concludes with a horizontal split. In which all the splits are focused on one side of the first vertical split. How is that achieved?
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over 1 year ago
It’s been years since I messed with i3wm, but then I found https://i3wm.org to be very helpful. Good luck.
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over 1 year ago
