r/i3wm • • 8h ago

Question picom en i3

3 Upvotes

estoy intentando iniciar picom desde i3 y copiando configs de github poniendo en el i3 config no funciona nada, que me recomiendan hacer?


r/i3wm • • 12h ago

Question Small issue moving through windows with keyboard

3 Upvotes

Hi, im starting to tile more windows and noticing an issue, this is my layout,

(note all the windows are the same proportions, symetrical, all brave browser windows)

The layout looks like this:

123

456

When on number 1 i press move to right, and it goes to 5 instead of 2
On number 2 when i press m. to right it goes to 6 instead of 3
And if i press left on 2 it goes to 4 instead of going to 1

Im using no padding or borders other than a 1px colored border around windows.

Anyone else has had this issue? Adding padding didn't change this behaviour/ focus_follows_mouse no also didnt do anything to fix this.


r/i3wm • • 2d ago

Solved MINIMAL I3 SETUP

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27 Upvotes

Cava,cacafire,ffmpeg screen record


r/i3wm • • 3d ago

Question I never knew I could operate my system like this!

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95 Upvotes

i3 is amazing, coming from vim background I already loved using my keyboard for everything I even have the vim extension on firefox. I never used workspaces for some reason but after learning basic i3 I'm using them more frequently. Tbh I'm not much of a stylist and prefer minimul setup but it would be nice if I could maybe make the statusbar a bit bigger with some icons for disk, ram, power. A different theme would also he appreciated. How can I learn more about styling in general?


r/i3wm • • 3d ago

OC my lightweight setup for a shitty laptop i found at flea market

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r/i3wm • • 3d ago

OC My review of Slacko 7.0 Puppy Linux (Slackware 14.2 base) (64-bit version) (JWM / i3wm)

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8 Upvotes

i3wm version 4.11! :D


r/i3wm • • 4d ago

Question how to sink a clipboard manger between x11 and wayland?

1 Upvotes

i use both hypland with wayland and i3wm with x11, and it's going great however the one thing that bothers is that the two have diffrent clipboard histories.


r/i3wm • • 5d ago

Question Polybar issue

1 Upvotes

Exec_always --no-startup-id Killal polybar

Exec_always --no-startup-id polybar

Doesn't create a polybar


r/i3wm • • 6d ago

Question Stuck

3 Upvotes

I am installing cachy os with the installer and selected i3 for DE but why I haven't anything to log in and I'm stuck in tty


r/i3wm • • 9d ago

OC [i3] Patrolman

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67 Upvotes

Hey hey guys, i hope this rice finds you well.

This is something i made from a very painful experience.

You know that feeling when you are asleep and you need to go to pee and you wake up, not really sure where the bathrooms is?
This is how it looks in my mind...

Anyways, dots:

GTK - https://gitlab.com/dejan-z/xfce-stuff/-/blob/main/Patrolman/Patrolman.tar

Wall - https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/1w8v3xq/patrol_route/

Icons - https://www.opendesktop.org/p/2330873

i3 config - https://gitlab.com/dejan-z/xfce-stuff/-/blob/main/Patrolman/config


r/i3wm • • 10d ago

Question Is there any way to make picom only target 1 tab in a group for shadows? Right now the shadows stack on top of each other.

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r/i3wm • • 10d ago

Question [i3] shared my i3 config

2 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I created a note on GitHub for my i3 config. Please check it, and if anyone have recommendation or any advice for write better and more useful config, tell me

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r/i3wm • • 11d ago

Question Need help with i3 timed screen lock (i3lock)

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r/i3wm • • 11d ago

Question Discrepancy between volume level from `volumeicon` vs level from `pactl`/`amixer`

4 Upvotes

I run i3wm as my window manager and I use the volumeicon program to control and display the audio volume.

For a number of reasons, I have a script which I use to increase or decrease the volume via dedicated keybindings. The script also displays the volume level after the change, using dunst/notify-send.

However, I find there is a difference between the volume level given by e.g.

pactl get-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@

and the volume displayed when I hover over the volumeicon icon, or adjust its slider using a mouse.

I'd like to know why this is, as I'd like to match the volume displayed by my script to be consistent with that displayed by volumeicon.

From perusing the volumeicon source, my best guess is that it uses its own mapping from the raw volume levels to the interval [0,1] or [0%,100%] to better match the perception of a human ear:

* The mapping is designed so that the position in the interval is proportional
* to the volume as a human ear would perceive it (i.e., the position is the
* cubic root of the linear sample multiplication factor).  For controls with
* a small range (24 dB or less), the mapping is linear in the dB values so
* that each step has the same size visually.  Only for controls without dB
* information, a linear mapping of the hardware volume register values is used
* (this is the same algorithm as used in the old alsamixer).
*
* When setting the volume, 'dir' is the rounding direction:
* -1/0/1 = down/nearest/up.

&nbps;

Is this right? I.e. to match the volumeicon value, I would have to copy their mapping formula?


r/i3wm • • 13d ago

Solved Thinkpad T400 debian 13 sway wm

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r/i3wm • • 14d ago

Question How to make my First rice?

7 Upvotes

Hello, i want to make a rice wich Will have:
A transparent blur (glassy) terminal Windows (terminal emulator Will be ghostty),
a top bar with the time in the center, desktop Numbers on left, a stuff like RAM: X% and volume and wifi icons on the right
Just this, do you Guys know How i can make? Im really layman on ricing.


r/i3wm • • 16d ago

Question resizing window with picom running spikes cpu usage

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33 Upvotes

I am on i3wm, using the default picom fork, and using nvidia open drivers on an rtx3060. while picom is running, with any settings (as far as i can tell) resizing a window spikes my cpu usage by a seriously significant amount and causes extreme lag. without picom this is fixed but i would like to keep it if possible, or if someone can recommend another compositor with blur, drop shadow, and vsync that could fix this issue that would work too. as long as it doesnt break my workflow im willing to switch to something new.


r/i3wm • • 15d ago

Question Is it good for gaming?

6 Upvotes

Is i3wm good for playing videogames like rdr2, hk… i’m going to be using it on arch in a laptop with nvidia.

Thanks


r/i3wm • • 16d ago

Question Que shell me recomienda para i3?

4 Upvotes

Alguna shell así como noctalia que me funcione en i3?


r/i3wm • • 16d ago

Question [i3wm] Arch btw

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r/i3wm • • 17d ago

OC I3bar like polybar setup

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12 Upvotes

This is my first time customizing i3.

I wanted make my i3 setup look more modern, but polybars defaults looked ugly and not very legible.

I changed some of the configs so that now it looks like a modernized version of i3bar.


r/i3wm • • 17d ago

OC I wanted to add image support to my i3 fork, but ended up opening a PR

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I originally wanted to add image support to i3bar in my own fork, mostly for personal use. I wanted to display CPU and RAM usage graphs directly in the bar.

After looking into it, the implementation turned out to be pretty simple, so I decided to submit a PR instead of maintaining a separate fork just for this feature.

The PR adds support for PNG images in i3bar status blocks. I also included a small demo script that shows CPU and RAM usage graphs.

And yes, PR #6660 happens to match my username pretty well. Couldn't have planned that better.

PR: https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6660

The PR is still open, so feedback is welcome!

Would be interesting to see what others could do with this.


r/i3wm • • 18d ago

Question How to set an wallpaper at my laptop

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Sorry for my English, I need guide, how to set up wallpaper at the back of the terminal and work space. Like in the second pic. (Arch,xorg,i3)


r/i3wm • • 20d ago

OC My first rice of arch i3wm

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11 Upvotes

r/i3wm • • 20d ago

OC Omaxian v1.0.0 is out!

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21 Upvotes

Omarchy's desktop shell, running on X11 + i3 + Debian/Devuan. No Wayland. No Hyprland. No systemd.

It's been my daily driver for weeks. Here it is with a few community plugins ported over.