i3 4.18

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Post by trulyrandom » Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 6:25 PM UTC

i3 4.18
i3wm.org

Re: i3 4.18

#2

Post by agumonkey » Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 6:58 PM UTC

my arch setup uses i3, it's not the only tiling wm but it's really nice, light and efficient.

Re: i3 4.18

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Post by Barrin92 » Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 7:02 PM UTC

been a long time i3 user mostly for the sane defaults. It requires significantly less fiddling than any other window manager I've tried out.

Re: i3 4.18

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Post by jolmg » Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 7:06 PM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #3

been a long time i3 user mostly for the sane defaults. It requires significantly less fiddling than any other window manager I've tried out.

With exception of the directional keybindings. I wonder how it came to be that the defaults are "jkl;" for the directions instead of the "hjkl" used by everything else (vi(m), less, shells, repls, etc.).

Re: i3 4.18

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Post by abjKT26nO8 » Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 7:07 PM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #3

been a long time i3 user mostly for the sane defaults. It requires significantly less fiddling than any other window manager I've tried out.

Have you figured out how to make i3 move the mouse pointer to the area of the newly-focused window when you change window focus by keyboard? AwesomeWM does that out of the box. i3 doesn't and it's very annoying, because then when my table makes a microscopic movement and causes the mouse to move, suddenly what I'm typing is diverted to another window and weird things happen.

Re: i3 4.18

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Post by awake » Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 7:09 PM UTC

jolmg wrote: post #4

Barrin92 wrote: post #3

been a long time i3 user mostly for the sane defaults. It requires significantly less fiddling than any other window manager I've tried out.

With exception of the directional keybindings. I wonder how it came to be that the defaults are "jkl;" for the directions instead of the "hjkl" used by everything else (vi(m), less, shells, repls, etc.).

h for help and your fingers rest on jkl; not hjkl if you are typing with proper form

Re: i3 4.18

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Post by msoucy » Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 7:09 PM UTC

jolmg wrote: post #4

Barrin92 wrote: post #3

been a long time i3 user mostly for the sane defaults. It requires significantly less fiddling than any other window manager I've tried out.

With exception of the directional keybindings. I wonder how it came to be that the defaults are "jkl;" for the directions instead of the "hjkl" used by everything else (vi(m), less, shells, repls, etc.).

Probably just QWERTY "home row" layout

Re: i3 4.18

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Post by ddavis » Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 7:10 PM UTC

Happy i3 user for 7 years, thanks to all of the developers. i3 is incredibly smooth to use. Looking at the bug fixes I've only ever hit one in the wild:

> move workspace to output: don’t create duplicate numbered workspace

and didn't even realize it was a bug, always thought it was an issue with my configuration.

Re: i3 4.18

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Post by kilovoltaire » Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 7:11 PM UTC

I recently saw someone playing around with i3 and xzoom to make fractals and video feedback, seems fun- https://twitter.com/maxbittker/status/1228241766240768000

Re: i3 4.18

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Post by yyhhsj0521 » Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 7:12 PM UTC

jolmg wrote: post #4

Barrin92 wrote: post #3

been a long time i3 user mostly for the sane defaults. It requires significantly less fiddling than any other window manager I've tried out.

With exception of the directional keybindings. I wonder how it came to be that the defaults are "jkl;" for the directions instead of the "hjkl" used by everything else (vi(m), less, shells, repls, etc.).

It seems that the intention was to emulate Vim [0], maybe the author was not familiar with it and made a mistake?

[0] https://github.com/i3/i3/commit/6d0071db197031845b5f77febc22...