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
On: Artix Linux
Command | Version | USS | PSS | RSS |
i3 | 4.19 | 8712 | 10236 | 14012 |
Rating
Lightweightness: ++++
Simpleness: +++
Easiness: +++
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