wm:tiling:i3
i3
The developers are describing i3 as a dynamic, tiling window manager. It is one of the most popular tiling window managers available.
The default keybindings are memorable after a while and do follow a logical structure. At first start i3 asks what Modifier key to use, offering Alt
and Win
(which is the same as super
)
The most important default keybings are:
- Mod+Enter: Open a new terminal emulator (executing “i3-sensible-terminal”)
- Mod+ Cursor key: change to another window in the indicated direction
- Mod+w enable tabbed layout. This is actually very nice, alls windows in full screen with giving you tabs at the top, which you can use the same way as you use a task bar.
- Mod+s stacking layout
- Mod+e back to tiling layout
- Mod+Shift+Space Switch the current window to floating layout, which makes it freely resizable
- Mod+Shift+q Close window
- Mod+Shift+e Exit i3
- Mod+Shit+r restart i3
The config file is at ~/.config/i3/config
Tips
Change the application starter
bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id rofi -show run
Disable i3bar
comment the bar{ }
section of ~/.config/i3/config
, which will save memory
Website: https://i3wm.org/
RAM Usage
Rating
- Lightweightness: ++++
- Simpleness: +++
- Easiness: +++
wm/tiling/i3.txt · Last modified: 2021/01/18 16:19 by senioradmin