https://miek.nl/tags/i3/ Recent content in I3 on Miek Gieben Hugo en-us © Copyright 2007-2024 Miek Gieben Sat, 08 Mar 2014 07:34:00 +0000 https://miek.nl/2014/march/08/i3/ Sat, 08 Mar 2014 07:34:00 +0000 https://miek.nl/2014/march/08/i3/ <p>GNOME 3 finally pushed me over the edge. After I brief stint with <a href="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/">cinnamon</a>, I decided the only thing left was to configure a tiling window manager and some tweaks to make it more usable. For no reason at all, I settled on <a href="http://i3wm.org/">i3</a>, which seems really nice and simple to configure.</p> <p>But how to use i3 comfortable? i3 is a tiling window manager, which makes it ubercool, but with it you loose things like automount, brightness keys, etc.; all the things you expect from a Linux desktop nowadays. This blog item deals with getting the goodies from i3, without giving up on all the other things you like. I basically use a lot of GNOME tools, but let them run in the background.</p>