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i3 is a tiling window manager for GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems targeted at advanced users and developers. i3 QUESTIONS MUST BE PROGRAMMING RELATED.

i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. The target platforms are GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems, our code is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) under the BSD license. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers

Where to start

  • User Guide Official user guide providing an overview of the usage and configuration of the WM

  • GitHub Repo Official GitHub repo with the source code of the project in case you want to contribute or have a look

  • Issue Tracker To refer when you've found a bug or have an enhancement idea

  • Official Subreddit To follow-up and discuss

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Floating dunst notification in i3

My problem I'm under Ubuntu 22.04 with i3 as windows manager and dunst to display the notifications. I would like the notifications to be floating but they are at the top of the screen and take the whole width. You will find bellow parts of my…
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Arch Linux arm Xorg doesn't display anything on Raspberry Pi 3 when running startx

On my raspberry pi 3 i have Arch Linux Arm Installed. I installed xorg, i3, and all of the drivers for it. i have my xinitrc file set up like default to run…
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is it possible to make a window_type_dock to show in only 1 workspace on i3 window manager

I am struggling to force a dock to show in only 1 workspace and not any other. Im currently using elkowar's eww widget to make a dashboard. the problem with it is it kept following me around, overlapping all the other window. Here is an example, the…
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The keybindings for tabbed don't work in i3, why?

I have recently changed from XFCE 4 to i3wm and when i tried to launch zathura with tabbed feature like this: nohup tabbed -f zathura -e I get the reader, but when I try to open a new tab Ctrl + Shift + Return it just don't work. However, I must…
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How to move workspace to monitor

I regularly change physical setup (work from home and office) and need a flexible and quick way of changing workspace form monitor to monitor. OS: Arch Window Manager: i3
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nvim-completion-manager: neovim shows a Python syntax error in cm.py when opening a new file, I despite no actual syntax error in file

In ~/.config/nvim/plugged/nvim-completion-manager/pythonx/cm.py, line 151 is self.nvim.call('cm#complete', name, ctx, startcol, matches, refresh, async=True) I'm using Python 3.8 and copying the file into an online interpreter for Python…
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How to keep custom properties between IntelliJ Idea updates?

I use a custom property in IntelliJ Idea to make it work with i3wm (it looses focus when changing workspaces): suppress.focus.stealing=false Each time I update IntelliJ, I have to add it again to /idea/bin/idea.properties which it's a bit…
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In i3wm how can I open programs on another workspace at startup?

I've tried multiple ways in my config file to get chromium to open on $ws2 but it just keeps opening on $ws1 on startup.
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How can you permanently disable palette and component tree in android studio

I have a problem because I am using a tiling window manager, everytime I open an XML file, in Android studio, then these two small windows open op and block my view of the code. I don't know how I can permanently disable the windows/toolbars/view,…
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NixOs 20.03 displayManager.defaultSession not available

I am trying to build my nix config with i3 as a display manager. I copied the following from the documentation: services.xserver.displayManager.defaultSession = "none+i3"; However, if I build the configuration, nix tells me that The option…
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Picom: Old backends only support blur method "kernel". Your blur setting will not be applied

I wanted to know what i did wrong with my picom configuration file. I'm currently using Arch Linux - 5.6.10 with i3-gaps as WM and Picom as a compositor. Error message: [ 08/05/20 13:43:36.014 init_render WARN ] Old backends only support blur method…
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Infinite loop of keypresses with i3 bindsym and xdotool

I am trying to convert firefox-ctrl-q-workaround to also handle Ctrl-Shift-C. This is because I keep using Ctrl-Shift-C in Firefox by mistake and popping open Developer Tools all the time is getting tedious. Firefox, incredibly annoyingly, does not…
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How to get subtree of json containing known object

I want to extract the subtree containing the focused window from i3-msg -t get_tree with jq. I know the focused window can be found with i3-msg -t get_tree | jq ".. | (.nodes? // empty)[] | select(.focused == true)" A simple example would be: { …
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I am trying to configure I3status and my memory bar is showing far more memory than actually in /proc/meminfo?

My status bar is showing: 16777216.0 TiB free, 16777216.0 TiB Available, 179.4 MiB used /proc/meminfo contains: MemFree: 3612112kB MemAvailable: 3612112kB ... Cached 192248kB Lastly in my i3status config memory { format = "%free…
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How to add weather to i3status in NixOS

Adding weather to the status bar in i3 can be done in several ways, including: py3status piping i3status to a custom bash script i3status does not allow including arbitrary shell commands in the configuration file. NixOS environment for Python…
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