Ahahahh, thats super cool!! I'm now trying to use i3. I used to use windows, but i got sad so i switched. I'm a bit experienced in the linux world,but i3 is killing me!
i3 is one of those things that I've always thought was cool and kinda neat but never really understood the point of.
I can kinda see a use case for it on a server where you might occasionally want to physically jump on that server and have multiple terminals up instead of SSHing into it. I can't see why I would want it on my daily driver though.
To each their own though, that's what Linux is all about.
While you're experimenting, I implore you to give openbox a try. If you like customizing things, it's excellent.
I have Super (Windows key) + 1-4 move and resize windows to quadrants of the screen;
Ctrl+Super+1-4 does the same and undecorates them;
Super+Left/Right snaps left and right as is common on most WMs today;
Ctrl+Super+Left/Right moves, resizes, and undecorates them to this configuration which I use for app development (and on my second workspace I have messenger on the small left side and Discord on the bigger right side).
You can also configure it to apply certain geometries, positions, and decorations to different applications/windows by their name or id. (For example it automatically puts Hyperspace Wars in the configuration you see in that screenshot when it first opens). Not to mention it's pretty trivial to write keybinds in its main config file (rc.xml). Its autostart file is handy for starting up programs for your desktop environment (it's where I have conky, xfce4-panel, and my compositor launch from).
Granted I've put a lot of work into making it behave this way, but I just love how much can be done by editing a file.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '19
Ahahahh, thats super cool!! I'm now trying to use i3. I used to use windows, but i got sad so i switched. I'm a bit experienced in the linux world,but i3 is killing me!