dmenu_run wasn't working for me. googling a bit this worked: ➜ ~ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 dmenu_run
when i did dmenu_run without it i had a warning called no locale support, that solved it
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February 2, 2020 21:17
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i3 window manager
to reset config
i3-config-wizard
to set windows as mod key set $mod Mod4
resize mod $mod + R
bindsym $mod+Shift+x exec i3lock --colour=ff66cc
lock screen
enable floating mode for all XTerm windows
for_window [class="XTerm"] floating enable
Make all urxvts use a 1-pixel border:
for_window [class="urxvt"] border pixel 1
A less useful, but rather funny example:
makes the window floating as soon as I change
directory to ~/work
for_window [title="x200: ~/work"] floating enable
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. Configuring i3
This is where the real fun begins ;-). Most things are very dependent on your ideal working environment so we can’t make reasonable defaults for them.
While not using a programming language for the configuration, i3 stays quite flexible in regards to the things you usually want your window manager to do.
For example, you can configure bindings to jump to specific windows, you can set specific applications to start on specific workspaces, you can automatically start applications, you can change the colors of i3, and you can bind your keys to do useful things.
To change the configuration of i3, copy /etc/i3/config to ~/.i3/config (or ~/.config/i3/config if you like the XDG directory scheme) and edit it with a text editor.
On first start (and on all following starts, unless you have a configuration file), i3 will offer you to create a configuration file. You can tell the wizard to use either Alt (Mod1) or Windows (Mod4) as modifier in the config file. Also, the created config file will use the key symbols of your current keyboard layout. To start the wizard, use the command i3-config-wizard. Please note that you must not have ~/.i3/config, otherwise the wizard will exit.
Since i3 4.0, a new configuration format is used. i3 will try to automatically detect the format version of a config file based on a few different keywords, but if you want to make sure that your config is read with the new format, include the following line in your config file: