Window manager configuration file

It will not be overwritten, so edit it as you like. Should you change your keyboard layout somewhen, delete. Font for window titles. Will also be used by the bar unless a different font. The font above is very space-efficient, that is, it looks good, sharp and. However, if you need a lot of unicode glyphs or. There also is the new i3-dmenu-desktop which only displays applications. It is a wrapper around dmenu, so you need that. Do you really want to exit i3?

This will end your X session. These bindings trigger as soon as you enter the resize mode. Hot keys user application binding.

Language settings on startup. A window, where an application is running, can be created in a container. You can move them around or even change the layout of the container using keystrokes. There are two different sorts of windows: fixed windows by default and floating windows. You can precise which application should use a floating window. In that case, the window will act like any other window in any other desktop environment: you can focus on them and move them with your mouse.

Like tmux or Vim, i3 use a special key for almost every keystroke. This key is called a modifier. On most keyboard, it has a Windows sign on it. I strongly advise you now to have i3 open to follow along with me, and to try the modifications we do by yourself. You know what? As you can see, the default layout of your container will automatically fit the two windows running two terminals on your workspaces. You might think at that point that this system is totally dumb. I was pretty disappointed the first time I tried it, since I was very much used to move my windows around with my mouse.

First, open your config file with whatever editor you want. This article is a quick overview of i3 for you to understand why it can be useful for you. After that, the documentation should be your reference for everything else. You can modify it if you like here. Internally, a symbol is mapped to a keycode a key on your keyboard.

To see this mapping, you can run in your terminal xmodmap -pke less. Here, the symbol Return is used. If you prefer using directly a keycode instead of a symbol, you can use the command bindcode instead of bindsym. This keystroke will execute using the command exec i3-sensible-terminal , a wrapper script which will try to find and open an instance of your terminal.

Depending on the application running in that window, some operation might be done before closing. For example, Firefox will save the current session. With i3, there is no start menu where you can find the applications installed on your system. Instead, you can launch your favorite software using a program launcher.

We will use it again below. From there, you can search an application and launch it by searching it and hitting Enter. However, since I use Vim pretty extensively, I like to use hjkl to move around. We will now modify i3 default config. However, we use this keystroke to focus windows. Note that changing orientation will create a new container. You can see its delimitation by changing its layout. Therefore, I never use these keystrokes. You can open and switch to workspaces with the same keystrokes.

From there, you can configure your workspaces as you wish. If you have Font Awesome installed, you can even add some fancy icons. The more specific last match wins. The following modifiers are recognised: C The Control key. M The Meta key. S The Shift key. This can be used to remove a binding which conflicts with an application.