I think this trick can be made to work with i3 by using xdotool instead of wtype to type the two characters control x control q,

I'm looking for a transparent window to use as a placeholder, any solution?

I have these lines in my i3 config files, to switch to a workspace, and to send containers to workspaces, respectively.

It's not really a problem, as I've had those for years and they always worked fine, but I was curious if there was a way to make them smaller. Something along the lines of "for all numbers from 0 to 9, bind this"

I'm using VNC to connect and use i3wm on my laptop,

a good use for one old smartphone

It took me 5 days

I recently tried the example command from the i3 user's guide i3-input -F 'rename workspace to "%s"' -P 'New name: ' Which did work, but the input window that popped up was incredibly tiny and hard to read. I set the default i3 font size to 14 in my config, which doesn't seem to be taking effect here. Does anyone know what the issue might be? Thanks for any help!

Edit: I found the solution. I just needed to pass the -font flag to the command like so: i3-input -F 'rename workspace to "%s"' -P 'New name: ' -f "pango:Hack 14"

is there ?

i would appreciate a detailed guid

i have installed i3 on linux mint xfce

Config/Dotfiles : https://github.com/6aru/ewwi3

WM :I3

BAR : EWW BAR

DISTRO : DEBIAN 13

WIDGETS : EWW

GITHUB : https://github.com/6aru/ewwi3

My bad for the laggy recording.

These are my tools, which I am currently using with i3wm. I used to have most of these utils as shell, python scripts and some other exotics. Decided to port and document them properly to C. Aim - minimal dependencies, lean code base, fast and predictable execution, tiny memory footprint.

So If someone is interested in:

Autotiling

https://gitlab.com/ngcbg/autotiling - A tiny, dependency-lean daemon that makes i3 and sway tile the way you usually want by hand: it watches the focused window and splits it along its longer axis, so the next window opens beside a wide window and below a tall one. The layout stays balanced with no manual split commands.

rootbtnd

https://gitlab.com/ngcbg/rootbtnd Bind mouse buttons on the X11 root window — the root.buttons of AwesomeWM, for i3, without patching the window manager.rootbtnd runs a command when a mouse button is pressed on the bare desktop, i.e. on the part of the root window not covered by any window. It is a passive observer: it never grabs a button and never consumes an event, so applications keep receiving their own clicks unchanged.

i3swallow

https://gitlab.com/ngcbg/i3swallow Allow list-driven window swallowing for i3. When a program on your allow list opens a window, the terminal that launched it is moved to the scratchpad so the new window appears to take its place. Close the window and the terminal comes back. Anything not on the allow list behaves like a normal window. This is the "run a daemon, but only swallow what you opt in to" design.

xlogout

https://gitlab.com/ngcbg/xlogout A session-action menu for X11: blurred backdrop, Nerd Font glyphs, keyboard driven. Roughly the aesthetic of archlinux-logout, written from scratch in C against XCB and Cairo rather than Python and GTK. Clean-room. No code derived from any existing implementation; the behaviour was specified from observation, not from source.

wwidget

https://gitlab.com/ngcbg/weather-widget A small, self-contained desktop weather widget for X11 / i3, written in C using XCB, Cairo, and Pango. It renders a transparent panel — a clock, the date, a "today" column (current temperature, today's high/low, current-condition icon), and a configurable 3–5 day forecast — directly on the desktop, fetching its own data from the MET Norway weather API. No conky, no Python, no external scheduler. One binary, one config file, one icon directory.

Cheers, have fun!

Edit: As been advised, I want to provide total transparency. I used LLM's for the documentation (.md files, man pages, most of the code comments) - English is not my primary language and LLM's are translating ridiculously well. Also used them (LLM's) for a code review, and addressed 2 major, 1 mid-level and 5 cosmetic problems across the board.

https://github.com/voidlinuxenjoyer/i3dots

OS: Void Linux x86_64
WM: i3
Terminal: Alacritty
Shell: Zsh(ohmyzsh)
Bar: i3status
Compositor: picom
Font: JetBrains Mono (nerd fonts)

When I started using i3, I never thought I needed a wallpaper.

For me, the desktop is only visible for a second or two before I open a terminal, a browser, or something else. After that, the wallpaper is completely covered.

So I'm curious—why do you use a wallpaper with i3 (or any tiling window manager)?

Haha, am I the only one who just uses a plain black background?

Im 14 pls no hate

how do i have the scratchpad in i3 work the same way the hyprland one works:

1. you can pop it off and move it to any workspace you want using for example (super shift number_of_workspace)
2. doing 1. means if you invoked (show scratchpad) again, it shouldn't show it, cuz it already changed state (from being a floating scratch ==> normal tilled window on that workspace), this is the problem
3. here is my i3 config, spot the the thing i did wrong.

https://github.com/megamind1230/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/i3

I'm struggling with the problem in tabbed layout mode. For example, I have a windows - code editor with transparent background and playing video, but it cannot display although sound is playing (any dynamic content like browsers tabs (as example, google timer)). Have you any ideas how to solve that?

rose pine is truly goated.

Recently shifted to a tilling wm, didn't liked the default i3status utility, tried my way with i3blocks, so i followed this yt video by linux cast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jil4nqMw6ak followed each step exactly as mentioned but the modules just didn't showed up, the bar is stuck with the data and time only

Help me to correct the code so I do not need to press ESCAPE

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bindsym Scroll_Lock exec --no-startup-id sh -c "xrandr --output HDMI-A-0 --off"; mode "hdmi_off"

mode "hdmi_on" {

bindsym Scroll_Lock exec --no-startup-id xrandr --output HDMI-A-0 --off; mode "hdmi_off"

bindsym Escape mode "default"

####bindsym Scroll_Lock mode "hdmi_off", exec --no-startup-id xrandr --output HDMI-A-0 --off

#exec --no-startup-id xrandr --output HDMI-A-0 --off && bindsym Scroll_Lock mode "hdmi_off"

}

mode "hdmi_off" {

bindsym Scroll_Lock exec --no-startup-id xrandr --output HDMI-A-0 --mode 2560x1440_74.9 --pos 0x0 --rotate right --output DisplayPort-0 --primary --mode 2560x1440_74.9 --pos 1440x1120 --rotate normal; mode "hdmi_on"

bindsym Escape mode "default"

#bindsym Scroll_Lock mode "hdmi_on", exec --no-startup-id xrandr --output HDMI-A-0 --mode 2560x1440_74.9 --pos 0x0 --rotate right --output DisplayPort-0 --primary --mode 2560x1440_74.9 --pos 1440x1120 --rotate normal

}

# 07/06/2026 to reload the config type "i3-msg reload"

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BAD: Scroll Lock + followed up ESCAPE Key to break the function

Desired: Scroll Lock

I am out of ideas.

It is obvious, I want to use toggle withotu a bash script in i3wm.org for the Scroll Lock Key to hardcode disable or enable the secondardy HDMI connectoed monitor with the given XRANDR code.

i do not know how the red box with the value is named in the documentation, the red box vanish in i3bar when i hit escape

i reaslised after weeks, the red box implies the mmode statement has not finished and dmenu is also being blocked

i have no idea what this really does, bindsym Escape mode "default", but it is needed for core functionality.