Linux Noob Tries i3 Tiling Window Manager for the First Time

I have no clue what I'm doing. However, I wanted to try out the i3 tiling Window Manager that I see a lot of the Linux professionals using.
In this video, I'm using the i3 WM Spin of Fedora, from here: fedoraproject....
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[@lex9fy]

felt the same way you did when i first used a tiling window manager. took me maybe 1-2 weeks to get used to it and configure it for my needs and now i am currently running hyprland. amazing video! id suggest you try a few others and see what suits you

[@RandyHanley]

I will definitely consider hyprland and I'll give it a try! Thank you!

[@iotku]

If you do stick with i3/sway (wayland i3 clone) I do highly recommend watching the screencasts on the main i3 website (under "screens" in the top right navigation), the first one goes a bit into the manual tiling aspect (splitting sections into further subsections either horizontally or vertically) Particularly what you missed which is fairly useful: mod+f (toggle window (real) fullscreen) mod+arrow keys (to switch between windows) (or jkl; which annoyingly is one off by default in i3 from the vim keybindings of hjkl for the directions, may be worth changing is the default on sway) mod+h (split next window horizontally from the current position, notably why it's not hjkl by default above, you may wish to change that in the config, sway defaults to mod+b, in order to have hjkl for directions) mod+v (split next window vertically from the current position) If you choose to use the mouse you can drag windows around (to different tiling positions with mod+left-click and resize them with mod+right-click) you can toggle floating with mod+shift+space. Good luck!

[@RandyHanley]

Very good information thank you for all of this!

[@zanem7eww]

Great video!! About a year ago I tried a tilling window manager. I felt exactly the same way when trying it out. It was difficult to get into the swing of it, but after I forced myself to use it, I can't use anything else! The problem I have now is I can't use any other window managers unless they're tilling. I was really excited for Plasma 6. I installed it and logged into it once. The idea of having to manually put windows in different places just seems wasteful now!! I've tried a few, like i3, sway, awesome. They all have their good points but I've settled on hyprland now.

[@RandyHanley]

Very cool and thank you for that information! I will check that out as well.

[@opfax163]

The tabbed layout

[@opfax163]

And if you want something like I3 but on wayland instead of X11 you can use Sway

[@DapperDuff]

Lol, I saw the thumbnail and immediately remembered seeing it on Canva.

[@RandyHanley]

True! I had to put the free trial to use! :-D

[@tylerdean980]

I reccomend a dynamic tiling window manager not a manual one for a beginner

[@RandyHanley]

Thank you for your input. I will try another one!

[@tylerdean980]

@@RandyHanley distrotube has great videos about tiling window managers, he recommends awesomewm for new tiling users

[@jpalan]

​@@RandyHanleySome tilers can be much more pain to configure than others, so try multiple and see which one scratches your itch. I ended up keeping bspwm because it's simple enough and doesn't come with anything extra.

[@nickn27]

@@RandyHanley I would recommend something like bspwm. Its very very easy to use, I basically havent touched its config at all. Remember to install sxhkd alongside bspwm otherwise you wont have any keybinds and will be stuck at a black screen with no easy way out

[@RandyHanley]

@@jpalanThank you! I will try more.

[@sharonye8297]

you should stream this content

[@RandyHanley]

Thank you. I may try to get into streaming again. I appreciate it!

[@blackpirate8748]

I thought it'd be a meme

[@Aoitori365]

"experts"