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Questions tagged [i3-wm]

i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager inspired by wmii. It supports tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts.

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How can I tell if I'm using alsa or pulse-audio by default? (Switching to i3-wm)

I might not be understanding the core concept, in which case correct me if I'm wrong. Ubuntu comes with two different audio rendering servers, pulse and alsa. Is Alsa an intermediary layer to pulse? Essentially I need to know which one I'm…
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How to de-uglify i3-wm

I recently installed the i3 Window Manager and have fallen thoroughly in love with it. However, it's rather ugly... I followed the instructions here for getting started, and one of the points was adding the exec --no-startup-id gnome-settings-daemon…
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Fresh install of Ubuntu with i3wm

I would like to use the i3 Window Manager with Ubuntu and not Unity. Since I am going to do a fresh install Id like to keep the bloat to a minimum. Should I just install it normally with the Desktop version and remove Unity and compiz or install…
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Screen times out in i3 WM

I love i3 for obvious reasons (light, maxing screen size, ability to customize). However, my screen times out after five minutes of inactivity. I would like to turn this off, how? I've got i3 on ubuntu 14.04 and 15.10.
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Thunar Icons Missing

I installed thunar yesterday but on starting up this morning, I found that all of the folder icons had vanished. I'm using i3wm (but the icons were visible in i3 as of yesterday). Any idea why they might have disappeared or how I could retrieve…
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How to change font size using i3-wm?

When I start ubuntu with i3-wm the font of all Applications is too big. How do I change the Font and Size? I already looked into i3 Documentation but found nothing about this topic.
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File browser and file dialogs take a long time to open or fail to open in all applications

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04, with i3 as the window manager but the gnome subsystem installed. I have a problem that at some random interval (hours or days) after a reboot, any attempt to open thunar or nautilus, or any attempt by an application (such as…
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Screen tearing when using i3, none when using unity

I was attempting to use i3 on my ubuntu installation the other day. I noticed however that when I would logout and switch to using i3 I would start to see tearing when watching videos or scrolling through websites. This is something I do not notice…
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How to connect to Wifi Network with i3wm?

I just installed Ubuntu minimal with i3wm, but I can't figure out, how to connect it to the wireless network. I already have installed network-manager package. Also I added exec --no-startup-id nm-applet to my ~/.config/i3 but apt-get cannot find…
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Volume sound and screen brightness controls not working

Recently I have installed i3 windows manager. The problem is that the footnote keys to control the volume and brightness don't work. How can I solve this? And how can I bind the mod key to the Win key?
Gabriel Sandoval
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Switching to i3 in 18.04

I installed i3 with sudo apt-get install i3. But if I try to launch it via terminal, it says another window manager is running. In older versions of Ubuntu, there was a round button at the login screen in which we click to select WMs. But in 18.04,…
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Copy & Paste between terminal(s) and application windows in i3

I have recently installed the i3 tiling window manager [1] on my Ubuntu system and I'm trying to figure out how to copy & paste between various terminal and application windows. How can this be done? [1] http://i3wm.org
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How can i3 use gnome settings in Ubuntu 18.04

In the past (probably 16.04), simply running gnome-settings-daemon allows gnome settings to work in i3 including hidpi settings, media keys, and touchpad preferences. In Ubuntu 18.04, there is no gnome-settings-daemon. This daemon is splitted into…
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How to add natural (/inverted) mouse-scrolling in i3 window manager?

As you can maybe see, this is my first post. So, I have already been trying and researching a lot, but I still can't solve this problem. I really enjoy natural scrolling, but not only on my touchpad, but also on my mouse - but this did not work so…
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The Save As dialog does not let me type a file name. How can I fix that?

In some programs like Firefox (Snap), if I trigger Save as... a dialog opens. If I try to modify the file name, I can move the caret with the cursor keys but as soon as I press any key to enter text, a filter box is shown to filter the listed file…
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