I've been using i3 for a few months and can never see myself going back to working without it now. I must say that I think it makes most sense when you have multiple monitors though.
i3 4.18
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#22The thing I love about i3 is that the config file is the complete documentation. Forget how to do something? Open the config file. That's it.
<3 i3
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can fix that with: focus_follows_mouse no It doesn't do what you wanted, but I also can't see why anyone would want a window to focus simply because you hovered over it.
Because why should I have to click to get focus? Less of an issue on a tiling window manager, but sometimes I really want to be able to type in a window without bringing it to the foreground. Also, selecting text should copy and middle click should paste. No one can convince me these things are bad or unnecessary.
> Because why should I have to click to get focus?
The click not only focuses but is also passed on to whatever you clicked on, so it's like it was already focused.
> Less of an issue on a tiling window manager, but sometimes I really want to be able to type in a window without bringing it to the foreground.
I don't understand that. You have to somehow indicate to the system what it is you want to type on.
> Also, selecting text should copy and middle click should paste. No one can convince me these things are bad or unnecessary.
I'm 100% with you on that. Although saying "selecting text should copy" makes it sound like it's being copied when selecting, when it's actually copied when pasting.
Re: i3 4.18
#24I love tiling WMs. I'll try out new ones every now and then for a few days, but I always come back to i3; which has been my primary window manager since 2012. It's an amazing window manager and I'm glad to see all the work still going into it. Sometime this year, I'll have to give Sway/Wayland another try on my laptop. I'd love to switch to Wayland, but the past few releases of Sway there was always something I got s…
My experience with Sway was the same until the 1.0 release (about 11 months ago). The 1.0 release fixed all the show stoppers and I've been happily using it ever since. It also comes with a few nice things build in like gaps.
To be honest though, there isn't much difference from a day to day perspective between X11 and wayland. A few things are nice (adding and extra screen doesn't reset the video mode) and a few things are worse (recording video). Make the switch when it's the natural choice, don't force it ;-)
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#25I've been using i3 for a few months and can never see myself going back to working without it now. I must say that I think it makes most sense when you have multiple monitors though.
I used i3 for a while and really enjoyed it. Though, I eventually switched back to KDE. I didn't like having to fiddle with power management and configuring screen locking.
I was noticing that I was only using 1-2 tiles at a time and I could easily emulate that by just side-by-siding windows in KDE.
I think if I ever have the chance to use a Linux machine professionally, especially with multiple monitors, I'll definitely reach for i3 again.
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#26i3 is a godsend. I used it for a long time before switching to Sway. I told my brother about it, helped him a bit to set it up and now he stopped using any other WM/OS.
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#27I've been using i3 for a few months and can never see myself going back to working without it now. I must say that I think it makes most sense when you have multiple monitors though.
I used i3 for a while and really enjoyed it. Though, I eventually switched back to KDE. I didn't like having to fiddle with power management and configuring screen locking. I was noticing that I was only using 1-2 tiles at a time and I could easily emulate that by just side-by-siding windows in KDE. I think if I ever have the chance to use a Linux machine professionally, especially with multiple monitors, I'll defini…
i3 couples with desktop environments rather nicely. I've used it with KDE and MATE, and others have used it successfully with XFCE.
My success with it with KDE was a little mixed, but I also didn't make any effort to resolve the little issues. With MATE though, it works flawlessly with no downsides or really any config needed. It's fantastic.
Here is how I set it up with MATE: https://www.mattgreer.org/articles/mate-and-i3/
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#28i3 is a godsend. I used it for a long time before switching to Sway. I told my brother about it, helped him a bit to set it up and now he stopped using any other WM/OS.
It's one of my most favorite pieces of software. It has put me in a slightly odd spot of hoping to never be required to use Windows or OSX at work though. Hopefully all my future companies let me use Linux.
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#29Still no gaps support on main branch. Devs don't care about what their users want/need.
Happy bspwm user here.
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#30I guess tiling window managers should be considered more of a specialized niche tool, and in that it is commendable that i3 does such a good job of it. I do really admire it for being so light-weight on resources compared to a lot of the other more popular WMs.
I say a niche tool because I've never really understood why someone would prefer a Window Manager that places a lot of constraints than one that lets you controls / customize the windows as you please and is thus "freer".
I guess it can seem useful for, say, multiple terminal windows. But would suck for a scenario where you have to open different kinds of applications like a browser, file manager, video converter, movie player, terminal etc. etc. (just citing all the apps I have open now and am multi-tasking with) where the ability to stack them would prove to be more productive for the user.
That even control freaks like Apple, who like to think only they know what's best for their consumers, doesn't use a tiling only WM in their OS is telling. Even Microsoft switched from a tiling WM from Windows 2.0 on wards and has stuck to it (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager ).