Questions tagged [i3]
i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager inspired by wmii. It supports tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts.
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Can I configure i3 to wrap from my rightmost workspace to my leftmost when I press <mod>+right?
Let's say I have 3 monitors arranged like this:
[] [] []
Is there a way to configure i3 so that if I press <mod>+right when I'm on the rightmost window on the rightmost monitor, it moves focus ...
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i3bar/i3blocks FontAwesome not shown correctly
I've just made a full system update (ArchLinux, probably i3wm and/or i3blocks and/or FontAwesome has/have been updated), and I am not able to recover the special symbols in my i3bar (+ i3blocks).
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How do I launch a program on a specific side of a workspace on startup?
I've got this at the bottom of ~/.config/i3/config:
exec --no-startup-id i3-msg 'workspace $ws1; exec i3-sensible-terminal ranger; exec i3-sensible-terminal btop'
But when I start i3wm, it's a ...
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FileExplorer shows only wildcard symbols in MuseScore
Since I don't have it in any other application on my ArchLinux (6.1.44-1-lts) with i3-wm it makes me wonder what is causing this behaviour?
The dialogues and fonts should be system defaults (I guess) ...
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Install i3gaps on Debian (Raspberry Pi OS)
I decided to install i3WM on my Raspberry Pi 400 with Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 11 bullseye aarch64). The only missing part is i3gaps/i3-gaps, but I can't install it with "sudo apt install". ...
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How can I get xrandr to realize my screens are of a different height?
On Manjaro Linux using i3, I have an issue with lining up my two monitors to achieve seamless transition. Currently they look fine using this command to orient them:
xrandr --output USB-C-0 --primary -...
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gnome-tweaks on ubuntu with i3wm throws freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
I'm running Linux Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS along with i3wm.
I'm trying to run gnome-tweaks to adjust the theme, but get following error:
gnome-tweaks
WARNING : Error getting shell mode
CRITICAL: Error ...
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Desktop Environment with Workspace Management on multiple Monitors similar to i3
I currently use i3, but really think about switching to a full-fledged Desktop Environment (it's just more convenient).
I don't really need the tiling in i3, as I use it in tabbed-mode 90% of the time ...
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Arch Linux - Monitors will never go to sleep
Through searching I can only find people looking to solve the opposite issue.
I am running Arch Linux with i3 as my window manager. I am using i3-lock to handle screen locking. I can lock the screen, ...
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How to make it so a certain sound (like a guitar string being strung) makes a button be pressed
I am wondering if it is possible to make it so if a guitar string or such is strung a button is pressed, I am on arch linux using xorg and i3 as window manager
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i3wm manjaro gnome applications appear to head dbus timeout
In my manjaro installation, since the latest update, gnome applications such as the gnome calculator and gedit, aswell as firefox, blueman-manager and pamac-manager take about 25 seconds to startup. ...
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X11 equivalents of grim, slurp, and wl-copy
I have been using Sway on Wayland for the last couple of years, but am currently stuck on X11/i3 due to various reasons...
The configs are compatible for the most part, but I am having trouble getting ...
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Slowdown when playing games in i3 X11 but not gnome X11
I have a problem that I find very difficult to reproduce. I have Manjaro with i3. It runs on a laptop with an RTX 3060.
Whenever I play a game, eventually, the game and i3 will eventually freeze up ...
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Libreoffice apps not being assigned to specific workspaces in i3
I use i3 and assign specific apps to specific workspaces using
assign [class="<WM_CLASS value>"] workspacenumber
But when I try this with Libreoffice it doesn't work. I run:
xprop | ...
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isblocks.conf create onclick event (open firefox with URL)
I have this block in /etc/i3blocks.conf
[rss]
command=rsstail -n1 -1 -N -u https://news.ycombinator.com/rss | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT | head -c 50
color=#00FF00
interval=300
I'd like to ...
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i3blocks.conf Error could not parse JSON lexical error
I have this error in my /etc/i3blocks.conf
Error: Could not parse JSON (lexical error: invalid bytes in UTF8 string.)
My code in /etc/i3blocks.conf looks like this.
[rss]
command=rsstail -n1 -1 -N -u ...
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Browser download location file manager is not using system default file manager
As a bit of background, I'm using Arch Linux with i3 as my window manager and I recently stopped using Nautilus as my default file manager and started using Thunar. The browser I'm using is Brave and ...
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escape not working, xev detects weird event
I've encountered a strange issue in my EndeavourOS-i3wm system. The escape key is not functioning at all. I haven't reconfigured any keyboard settings or messed with xkbmap. This problem occurred when ...
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How to shift all workspaces to the next (or previous) output
Let's say I have 3 monitors, or outputs: LEFT, CENTER, and RIGHT. And I have 6 workspaces. The active workspace is marked with a star:
LEFT
CENTER
RIGHT
1*
2, 3*
4, 5*, 6
How could I trigger the ...
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Command Line Prompt on wrong place of screen
I recently installed Manjaro Linux with i3wm on my PC. But ever since I updated my system the command prompt line shows up halfway down the screen of the i3-sensible terminal (it might also have ...
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LightDM displays wake immediately after sleep
Update 2: The behavior only happens when both monitors are enabled and when lightdm-gtk-greeter is active. Disconnecting or disabling (with xrandr) results in expected behavior.
Update: Seems to have ...
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i3: Title bar and border colors not matching
No matter what I do, my i3 config keeps displaying different colors on active windows. This is what it looks like (notice the lighter sidebar compared to the title bar):
And this is the relevant part ...
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i3 status bar with ANSI *input*
I want to show a text having ANSI escape sequences in a status bar.
The status text is generated by third party tools, that manage themselves the ANSI colors (and hyperlinks, albeit these may be left ...
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How to set keyboard layout and keep configuration?
I changed from gnome to i3wm and now everytime I log in to my computer the keyboard layout is set to english (my keyboard is spanish).
I was able to change it with this command but just for the ...
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Set Regolith status to the top of the screen
I am using Regolith 2 on Ubuntu 22.04. I would like to move the status bar to the top of the screen (like in i3). This version of Regolith now uses the concept of partials for configuration, but none ...
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How to change the default actions for the function keys?
Most computers these days comes with function keys which already have some action setup for it. For eg; Fn+F1 will mute the device and triggers a XF86AudioMute.
How can I change this triggered action? ...
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How to hide parent container in i3?
I'm using pretty much the standard i3 config and sometimes I press the wrong keys and this extra bar shows up at the top:
I believe it's the "parent container"? How do I hide the bar again? ...
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Disable a specific window/program from being able to detect a specific keyboard key?
So I run an Arch Linux setup with i3wm, and Xorg (how original am I).
Where I work employees can work from home by using Parsec. The reason for this is because they're artists and need the low latency,...
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i3wm: Cycling throw workspaces
I’m back using i3 as my main window manager, but I notice something I’ve never done before:
When the leftmost workspace is focused and I try to switch to the previous one (workspace prev), i3 jumps to ...
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Which files should I configure to STOP AUTO-CONVERTING input method(keyboard layout) whenever I open bash shell?
I am Korean. So I have two keyboard layouts, KR / EN.
There is a problem. I can't input Korean on bash shell. It is fine with output. I can read KR on bash, e.g file names.
Same thing happen while I ...
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how to assign sound effect to some keyboard keys
I use gnu+linux, and I need to assign an audio sound to the
| keys, Imp pant and the mouse click only, for educational use,
¿how can I achieve that assignment if I'm user of the i3wm window
manager?
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i3wm - easy save/restore workspaces
I am aware of the i3-save-tree documentation. But it seems that there should be a way to automatize this. I wonder if it is already implemented somewhere on the internet:
This is the idea:
save the ...
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i3wm: set default orientation of the first application in a container for binary space partitioning
I have the following layout config to get a quasi-binary partitioning layout.
# from https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/4tw1jn/tip_quasi_alternatingfibonacci_layout/
default_orientation horizontal
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manjaro kde plasma and i3wm
I really like Manjaro Plasma flavour and how it works out of the box, but at the same time I'd like to have the features of a i3wm to improve usability and productivity.
Is it possible to get rid of ...
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Disable automatically copying selection to clipboard in urxvt
There are 2 kind of clipboards on my os (manjaro i3). Xclip, which keeps the last selected text, and the regular clipboard which must be explicitly copied.
I have noticed urxvt copies selected text in ...
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i3 window manager with external monitor and broken internal LCD display
I am using the i3 window manager on a laptop with a broken internal LCD display. It will not fill the dimensions of the external monitor. I have so far tried using xrandr auto-detection:
xrandr --...
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Why does i3 move my mouse to a different monitor?
I am using Arch Linux, and i3wm v4.21.1
I have 3 monitors setup using xrandr.
Here's what I am doing, and the expected behaviour:
Move my cursor to the monitor I desire to open the application on (in ...
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picom color invert
I am using i3wm.
Running the following script in bash
if [ "$(pidof picom)" ];
then
pkill picom
fi
X=$(printf "0x%x\n" $(xdotool getactivewindow))
picom --color-invert-include &...
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Rofi isn't recognizing a .desktop file [i3-gaps]
I've recently installed waterfox on my Fedora system, and I've encountered an issue with my application manager, rofi. For some reason it just doesn't want to recognize the .desktop file for it, and I'...
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Having trouble using cli to switch between playback devices with pipewire
I've been going down the i3wm road of pain and can't for the life of me understand how to change the output device with cli commands.
Setup:
Using i3-gaps (Base Distro is Garuda Linux)
pipewire is ...
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I3 lagging on intel Iris Xe
I've got a Dell XPS 13 2021 and I've installed fedora 36. I want to use i3-wm. I don't know why but all tiling windows manager like dwm, bspwm or i3 are lagging, right now I'm using KDE-plasma with no ...
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Ubuntu / i3wm: rename AppImage in dmenu entry
I downloaded an AppImage (LogSeq to be precise) and wanted to add it to the dmenu.
With the help of a friend i did the following:
move AppImage to a appropriate directory (not required, but appears ...
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debian testing : i3 not starting
I am using debian testing and after an update, i3 will not start anymore. When I start a session with it, all I see is a black screen and I have to reboot the computer. I can only use gnome. It did ...
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i3 Super doesn't work after changing keyboard layout
I recently got an external keyboard for my laptop. Problem is that I have to use i3 at school and that whenever I'm changing my keyboard layout (because default layout is french and I got an US ...
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Configure i3 for Debian 11 with 2 DisplayPort USB-C monitors
I've migrated to new laptop capable to use DisplayPort USB-C connection for Video. And 2 monitors (DELL U2421E) which support USB DisplayPort.
Till now I was using 3 xrand commands in my .xsession to ...
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How can I re-position status bar icons I'm not running in my configs
I am currently learning how to customize my Ubuntu (20.04) laptop, and I currently use i3, i3status and Polybar. But I am getting status icons in my status bar while I don't have them configured as ...
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i3 Black Screen, with Mouse but no shortcuts working (Manjaro KDE)
After successfully installing Manjaro KDE without any problems, I proceeded to install i3 WM. Again, no problems when switching manually through SDDM, and I've also tweaked some of i3 configurations ...
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i3wm: How to automatically switch workspace when a window of a specific application requests focus?
I tried focus_on_window_activation with focus, but it doesn't do anything. I guess it only works on same workspace. Or maybe I am using it wrong?
for_window [class="Chromium"] ...
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Cannot start rofi
getting this error after I updated by system yesterday, running endevouros i3 flavor.
The following errors where detected when starting rofi:
Failed to set binding Tab for: Go to next element (in ...
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Can i3 automatically adjust to changed resolutions?
Can i3 be configured to automatically handle changing resolutions? Right now, if I change the resolution on my machine, i3 still draws everything as if it was the old resolution. (Usually resulting in ...
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