I am trying i3wm. I have a question. If I have two Chrome windows with multiple tabs open in Ubuntu GNOME, and I log out and switch to i3, will I be able to restore those windows and tabs in Chrome using the 'Continue where you left off' option? I opened Chrome in i3, but the Restore button doesn't work to open up the tabs/windows of Chrome. Is it possible to config somehow?

my mom walked on me while using i3 and now she thinks I'm hiding something and purposely trying to encrypt my computer. how do I explain to her that i3 is NOT a tool used for computer encryption? /srs

I know I'm 8 years late on this but at 7:00, your font is literally showing up on the screen, the font family is "SFNS Display" but it's the same one. Thanks a lot for the hard work tho, the videos are great !

Infinality is deprecated

Thankyou!! Best video for people who just downloaded i3 and are probably watching this video from their phone 😂

2024 newbie linux user here, thank you for being concise and useful.

coming here 2024 you might alter the workflow a bit: - you'll notice that the derfault i3wm config now uses variable name for workspaces from the get-go - use the XDG specs for config files: the i3 config file should go to ~/.config/i3/config, fonts for your local user should go to ~/.local/share/fonts/

8 years later it still being the best tutorial! Gracias!

Alex its 2024 and Im using your videos on how to set up i3 on my Mint installation and every is going good so far. Thank you!

This video helped me after 8 years you uploaded.

This is so cool, thank you Alex!!! Noob question: at the bottom toolbar, I see my IP address and wifi network connection. In that section, what does the percentage number mean? As in W: ( 52% at ISP_1234) 555.555.55.55

jkl; bruh 🤢, all gigachads use hjkl

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bl62YZaNo7F1gcksi=fTZXOGKhAZQLSEAZ&t=1353 I installed i3wm today (on Fedora) and the namespace are set into variables. This guide is still valuable for newcomers, thanks for sharing.

still great 8 years later

Also, you can view the documentation via the manual command in Linux: ‘man i3’

i3 + tmux + neovim Lethal riced combo !!

Rofi doesn't find any apps I installed.

Thunar is super slow on sway

Nice, lxappearance found my two fonts I copied on sway(Fedora Sway 40).

Hmmm, somehow exec?alwazs doesn|t work on sway. And somehow exec only opens some apps. I was testíng with Dolphin vscode and notejot and it only opened VSC.

So 8 years later I went through researching through a plathora of window managers, coming down to i3 eventually because of this video. Thank you very much!

If someone is as dumb as me and wondering why feh isn't setting the wallpaper when it is in the i3 config, but does so when run from terminal: It is exec_always with an underscore and not without. I totally overlooked that and tried to fix it for an hour or so :D

Seeing “8 years ago” made me realize how late I am into the world of Linux

For anyone watching in 2024: instead of autoloading the monitor setup by putting in the xrandr display setup command in the i3 config file, I recommend to instead use a package called 'autorandr' which lets you save different xrandr monitor configurations (e.g. 'mobile' for just your laptop screen and 'docked' for when you have another monitor attached) and then it will automatically load/reload those configurations for you based on what monitors you have attached. It also lets you use 'hook' scripts like 'preswitch' and 'postswitch' that let you execute your own scripts before/after a device change has been detected. I personally use 'postswitch' to reload my wallpapers when I connect an external monitor. Even if you dont plan to use hooks then this is in my opinion a much better setup than what he did in the video since yoh won't have to manually do anything when you plug in a monitor.

this is so lovely

this is pure bliss :)

The year is 2024, i am 33 years old.. learning i3.. thank you for the tutorial ..😊😊

谢谢大佬，爱来自中国🤓

It does look nice, but it is absurdly expensive for just some plywood. You can find many hardwood alternatives at this price range.

Why doesn't it use the standard VIM keys for movement: H J K L

3 mins..... i'm already regreting using macos.

Thanks, you are great 👍👍

Holy shit dude, eight years alter and this is by far the best i3 guide I've ever seen.

This might be really old but in the cadre where you were saying that you can't San Francisco font does not register in the font select. right in the open font select window that you were at, there was a font called "SFNS Display". Well, that was it :) I learned that by opening the font in font viewer to know its internal name (That sometimes may differs) which was applied here. But nevertheless you've been a great help and helped me building up a great workspace, thanks :) :)

anyone got a suggestion for a bitcoin price tracker on the bar? also, these videos are terrific you are a natural teacher.

thanks so much for this, this is the best tutorial of i3 I could find!

I remember 6 or 7 years ago I installed i3 on my old pc using this video. I can't believe it was 6 years ago.

the first thing that I changed was to use the normal navigation keys of hjkl like vim. If you do this you will have to change the horizontal split key mapping. I ended up changing split h and split v to add control key. Now that I learnt and only use vim now for development, using i3wm was just a no brainer choice. For those that are sometime forced to use windows for work or school, you can get a window manager called glazewm that will mimic i3wm for windows and I have tried it out with success.

just received one, awesome quality.

I saw 9 years old when this video came out. It's so amazing that Linux is so consistent that this guide still applies, yet it's always so up to date that it's consistently faster than Windows or Mac will ever be.

I've grown annoyed with standard desktops, and with KDE Plasma 6's recent oddities with their desktop preset customization, I've been deciding to just switch to i3. At first, I was overwhelmed by the options, and foreign (To me) ways to customize. This mini-series has helped reduce that anxiety to show it isn't really that hard, and has really nice way to manage screen-space. At the anti-cost of customization too, unlike gnome, which is personally unusable because of the very restrictive workflow.

Excellent class! I chose Pop! OS precisely because it brings native Twm. But I can't stand the resizing bugs anymore (and I'm not going to wait for Cosmic Desktop in Rust which, yes: it brings many improvements to TWM). I also share the idea of reserving work spaces for certain contexts. Something that, in Pop! OS I do organically and would love to have this option to make everything automated. I will see the next videos and try to install i3. Thanks!

Definitely instructive with the mistake and the debugging. As a beginner it helps me a lot.

Hey Alex, could you help a veteran out? i3wm works like a dream on my desktop, but on my hidpi laptop it freezes all the time. I don't even know enough to find out the root of the problem. What can I do to stop this from happening?

Many thanks from Australia - I’ve never binge-watched 3 videos before. Good job Alex!

On the latest version of Ubuntu (2023), the gear icon for starting i3 is no longer adjacent to the log-in - it’s on its own on the lower right hand side - stumped me for a while. Also, I understand that running Ubuntu in a VM on Windows can also fall over if you have the Windows key as mod so potentially go Alt. in a Win VM. First class video by the way, really appreciate your work.

I always thought this was harder, but you made it too easy to understand, i love it!

It’s very expensive for cheapy plywood, for the same cost, balo offer real walnut with clever attachment such as a magic charger stand, apple watch stand, laptop dock stand, tablet stand, etc amazing modular setup

Are there themes for for ubuntu 22.04 with gtk 4.0?

Very usefull!, i just installed i3 and this guide is really helping me out ^^