I love i3wm, it’s a quick, lightweight and very good looking environment. The beauty of a windows manager like i3 need a must learning curve to be appreciated. Many things that are very intuitive in DE like GNOME, KDE or Unity (r.i.p.… sigh), in the i3wm could be difficult for the new user. But many workaround are existing. Reuse,[…]
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Brightness control doesn’t work in i3wm. Due to xbacklight
I’m very pleased with i3wm, but day by day I need to adjust something. At this time, on my new laptop, the brightness hardware keys don’t work as expected. The issue on the Lenovo Thinkpad with Fedora 26 is the same on the Acer ES1-111 with Ubuntu 17.04. At the bottom of i3wm, we found respectively the GNOME and the[…]
Read moreCustomize i3wm to clean your desktop
i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. The target platforms are GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems, our code is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) under the BSD license. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers. i3. The improved tiling wm Online resources: i3 user guide i3 subreddit i3 video tutorials First, you must install[…]
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