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i3[0] Tiling window manager, very lightweight. It does its job, gets out of the way and doesn't try to push fancy stuff in my face, that's all I ask from a win
by Wilya 13y ago
i3[0]
Tiling window manager, very lightweight. It does its job, gets out of the way and doesn't try to push fancy stuff in my face, that's all I ask from a window manager (and more than what most of the others give me). Besides, I have my set of basic key bindings for it in muscle memory, so there's no point in changing.
[0] http://i3wm.org/ http://i3wm.org/
- aerique 13y agoi3, the tiling window manager after which I stopped trying out other tiling window managers.
- weinzierl 13y agoSame for me, and not only because its author (Michael Stapelberg) was always nice enough to answer my questions on IRC. Great Software, great support.
- z3phyr 13y agoMy last stop was XMonad, an year ago. Since then I have not changed my wm.
- aerique 13y agoI think I went through almost all of them :-) A lot have the master window concept like XMonad which I do not like.
- hmottestad 13y agoLooks nice. I use xmonad when I'm on linux, and I think I might prefer the simplicity and structure. The tabbed windows looks very useful though.
- Wilya 13y agoI just realized I called it "tiling WM", but I use tabbed windows more than tiling features. I tend to have one main stack of tabbed windows on each workspace, out from which I "push" a window or two to create splits whenever I want to display multiple things at the same time.
- apotheon 13y agoI have some workspaces that are tabbed (that's typically the case where I'm using a browser), some that are tiled, and some that use both -- usually involving a tab group in one tile and one or more other tiles on the same workspace. I guess the ability to mix tabs with tiles (in whatever arrangements I want) is what keeps me using i3 instead of others. I'd love to get dwm's tags with i3's tabs and tile management.
- vacipr 13y agoI actually came here to recommend i3-wm. If you've never used a tiling window manager or used one but it didn't really work out,I suggest you give it a try.
- fdr_cs 13y agoi3 is the best tiling wm I've ever used.
- eolo999 13y agosame here
- virtualwhys 13y agoi3 is really quite good, have been using it for several months now. Not completely over the moon with i3 (some annoyances), but it's the best tiling WM I've come across to date; it's actively maintained, so should get better and better with time ;-)
- platz 13y agoSometimes I feel a bit strange using i3 on Ubuntu (which has put so much work into Unity). I believe i3 was written to solve the use cases of developers, and so maybe that's why I often feel the choices the creators made just seem to make so much sense.
- thomasmeeks 13y agoTrying out a tiling window manager was the "last straw" that pulled me off OSX and back onto Linux. It started with Xmonad, but I've settled on i3 for the same reasons as you.
- vivab0rg 13y agoi3: instant productivity. Failed as an Awesomewm user, but now rocking i3 with dual-monitors; a developers' dream. The only thing remaining from my Ubuntu Unity install is gnome-settings-daemon.
- bgar 13y agoI love i3, been using it for over a year after using dwm for about 1.5 (and trying many others). Now for me, it's setup up borderless with a hidden bar, I'm not much for fancy extras. And the multimonitor support is great too.