https://github.com/obestwalter/i3config

My i3 tiling window manager config, helper scripts and py3status config
https://github.com/obestwalter/i3config

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My i3 tiling window manager config, helper scripts and py3status config

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/obestwalter/i3config
• Owner: obestwalter
• Created: 2013-09-22T16:56:10.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-10-12T19:59:30.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-10T18:41:49.424Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: configuration, i3wm
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://i3wm.org/
• Size: 2.94 MB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# My [i3wm](https://i3wm.org/) environment

[![Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed.](http://www.repostatus.org/badges/latest/active.svg)](http://www.repostatus.org/#active)

## What?

My computer is my virtual workplace and living room. It needs to be functional and cozy. The big desktop environments are too opinionated and restricting in the way how I am supposed to use my computer. i3 helps me to [take the power back](https://www.tape.tv/rage-against-the-machine/videos/take-the-power-back-live).

I want to control this ...

![i3-screen](docs/img/i3-screen.png)

mainly with this ...

![generic 104](docs/img/pc104-keycodes.png)

and i3 is really great for that.

## Why?

I have been pushing around windows on a screen for literally decades now and it got a little bit tiring at some point. A tiling window manager takes away a lot of that window pushing by always opening applications maximized and giving the user complete control over layout and navigation with the keyboard. After a week of complete agony with that new way of doing stuff on a computer I started to enjoy it and now there is no way back. I like the way I can manipulate windows and navigate between them with the keyboard. The absolute killer feature of i3 is how graceful it lets you handle [multi monitor setups](http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#multi_monitor).

## How?

As i3 is "only" a window manager, there is a lot of stuff that needs to be taken care of that is usually part of a fully fledged desktop environment. All of a sudden things you took for granted are gone. But I want auto mounting, power management, network management, program launchers and a nice panel with lots of little icons and stuff. There are two approaches to deal with that: either add everything yourself by mixing and matching daemons from DEs and self made scripts or use a desktop environment that can use i3 as a window manager.

In my [first setup](https://github.com/obestwalter/i3config/tree/stable-gnome-setup) I used the first approach and ended up with a combination of i3 standalone with the `gnome-settings-daemon` and some self built little scripts. Then I played with [XFCE](http://www.xfce.org) as the host using i3 as the window manager, but now I am back to a more minimalistic setup.

**TBD** (first stumps are [here](http://oliver.bestwalter.de/i3config/))