i3

i3 is a tiling window manager.

Docs: https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html

$mod is set to the Windows key

Hotkeys:

• $mod+num(1-9) Go to workspace 1 to 9
• $mod+e toggle to split horizontally / split vertically
• $mod+s change container layout to stacking
• $mod+w change container layout to tabbed
• $mod+shift+space toggle for floating mode for the current window

Font size

1. Edit .config/i3/config

Syntax:

font <X core font description>
font pango:[family list] [style options] [size]

For example:

font xft:URWGothic-Book 11

# 
font xft:URWGothic-Book 14

Adding icons to i3 workspace names

• https://boddy.im/i3-workspace-names.html
• https://github.com/cboddy/i3-workspace-names-daemon/blob/master/i3_workspace_names_daemon.py
• https://github.com/mihalea/i3-workspace-names