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

bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id rofi -show run

comment the bar{ } section of ~/.config/i3/config, which will save memory

Website: https://i3wm.org/

On: Artix Linux

• Lightweightness: ++++
• Simpleness: +++
• Easiness: +++

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