Tiling Window Management and i3wm config additions

[@PetrGladkikh]

Using "super" for all windows operations - AMAZING!!!! Finally. I always wanted this to be the default for all Linux distros. And this is the first thing I do when on a fresh installation. It seems that most window manager authors do not use any other software except window manager itself so do not care about conflicts with application shortcuts.

[@nerdbot4446]

I found your initial i3 video about a year ago and since then I'm in love with i3. The fact that I can teach (aka 'config') i3 what to do if a certain window pops up (and layout saving respectively) is a godsend. Saved me so much time since I set everything up to my liking.

[@chrisbebek3192]

"I can mount pretty much anything"

[@marksmod]

sexual

[@tractatusviii7465]

thats a g1

[@ano_nym]

OwO

[@MrDubs]

That's BOLD

[@m1kr0kosmos]

anything is a harmonic oscillator of you’re brave enough

[@TheVertical92]

7:40 finally i unterstand the arch logo xD

[@TheVertical92]

@Dakota Avi no ones gives a shit about scams

[@duojornalistico]

Great video for noobs while still being interesting for older subscribers, this guy is a genius. Truly /g/

[@duojornalistico]

@@FluffyDragonKitten that's the meme

[@stronkesticefairy3975]

our/g/uy

[@GoodOwl0]

Luke Looks Like Lenin

[@marcussmithwick6326]

New meme, Luke is Lennon from now on 👏

[@Sylverthis]

@@marcussmithwick6326 Le Lennon, Bob ?

[@torspedia]

Kermit The Wog Imagine that 😜

[@marcussmithwick6326]

@@Sylverthis n...no

[@34-ctp74]

Linux revolution, comrades

[@desktorp]

Great job on LARBS. Better documentation than all these fly-by-night 'distros'.

I just installed i3 and my productivty went up by 80%. I am just blown away by it. Amazing videos btw. Keep it up.

[@davidhusicka8440]

Yes, but then you switched to Mate and then to Windows.

@@davidhusicka8440 yea I know, but people change ya know

[@crashdude7589]

@ Now you've changed back???

[@joejett6234]

As a veteran Windows "ricer" having recently made the plunge into Linux, I'm never going back unless I'm helping family or friends with their systems. That being said, I'm absolutely in love with how customizable and functional Linux is (running Arch on this machine and Debian on my other). I've spent a lot of time familiarizing myself with i3 and I'm always learning new things between configuration files and manual scripting. I don't understand at all why people don't think you can have a very visually appealing desktop and functionality at the same time. Thank you for the great video, and sharing what you've got, Keep it up. Easy sub from me

[@nilspin]

Not to sound condescending, but how exactly do you rice windows?

[@joejett6234]

It's incredibly easy, but not as resource friendly as linux. Rainmeter, StartIsBack, ObjectDock and BlackBox are my preferred programs, but there are loads out there and Chloe Chantelle has a great guide on other photo viewers, window managers, tiling programs, etc. www.ricing.chloechantelle.com/

[@joejett6234]

@Grey Fox Mishima I apologise, I didn't mean to throw complex non-elitist concepts your way and confuse you. Ricing isn't limited to Linux, and the term doesn't even come from desktop customizing, it originated in the street racing community. It is exactly as it sounds, I've been ricing Windows (an operating system) for very many years, long before I jumped into Linux. I love Linux much better and only use Windows to game with nowadays, but that doesn't mean there aren't countless ways to customize Windows. Even without Rocketdock and Rainmeter, you still have Gridview, Startisback, Vivaldi, Winaerotweaker, Blackbox and DirectoryOpus and that's just the beginning.

[@JoshuaRose-hm3xq]

guys he uses arch btw

[@MrJackojc90]

Aphex Twin, a man of culture I see.

[@bruderdasisteinschwerermangel]

torrents? for downloading all that free and open source linux software I assume

[@Slashx92]

in a recent video he said that almost the only thing that uses a torrent client for is seeding and downloading distros .iso and hard to find papers and books

[@StannyObelisk]

No, for torrenting Shrek.

[@rishushrivastav4591]

github

[@cristianocolangelo9920]

actually every decent distro has a torrent mirror

[@code8860]

Movies and series. LOL

[@garybeardsley0]

This is amazing, I was super interested in checking out i3 and you released this video today. Getting my thinkpad in a couple days :)

[@jdncat]

Which thinkpad model did you get?

[@garybeardsley0]

@@jdncat I got the X200, loving it so far!

[@MangroveLord]

I'm going to switch to linux soon straight into arch i3 I've got a ThinkPad p52

[@nilspin]

Hi Luke, just discovered your channel and your videos are super helpful! I've been using linux as my primary OS for about 8 years now, been using arch since 3 years. I always wanted to use a tiling windows manager since I've seen people's workflow become super fast, but your video actually helped me make the jump from cinnamon to i3. I'm still new to "everything-vim-based" but I'm definitely finding it interesting. After each update my HDD usage grows by a small percentage but I don't really do anything apart from clearing the package cache (pacman -Scc). Mainly I cannot distinguish what programs I need and which ones to -R. If possible, can you make a video on general-maintenance of an arch system? I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate that.

[@markkesner5895]

Thanks for this. You've done all the hard work and made a cool i3 desktop easy for me. Now to learn to use it properly. So thanks for the great docs as well!

[@EugeneBorysenko]

Finally I found the man who had found so much time to make THESE ALL configs. That's awesome. Really U R crazy man in best sence. This is wonderful.

[@NeoVerse39]

I turned from sublime text to vim after watching your videos on vim, now I'm watching this

[@sohamgumaste]

Welcome to the linux customization rabbit hole Hope you enjoy your stay cause you literally cannot get out now :P

[@oldthocker47]

Love your setup. The small spaces and transparency makes it look really classy. I see a small blues line around windows, which I'm trying to get rid of. Is that just part of i3? Thank you

[@hokkypro]

Luke, You convinced me! in 2019 im making the switch

[@devhypercoder2522]

@@ZulluBalti I switched a long time ago. Won't switch back

[@thescrawl6594]

At what point does a rice become a distro? Have you considered relabeling your rice as a distro, in order to achieve a wider audience? Distros such as Manjaro are little more than Arch with a window manager and stuff preinstalled. Have you considered packaging LARBs like that?

[@doitwithdevon]

Would be interested in this as Distro.. But, then again, having to set it all up is half of the fun, no?

[@Mostlyharmless1985]

It becomes a distro when you include an installer and a kernel.

[@thescrawl6594]

@@Mostlyharmless1985 Arch doesnt come with an installer. Arguably LARBS has more installer than Arch.

[@Mostlyharmless1985]

The Scrawl Pacman...

[@thescrawl6594]

@@Mostlyharmless1985 ...Pacman is a PACkage MANager. Not an "Installer".

[@zuldgreat]

How did you configure the emoji font for i3blocks to looks like what you have? It looks like an icon instead of a simple font. Did you use a patched font?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I have ttf-emojione installed and that's the emojis that are appearing.

[@roosterfloss758]

Hey Luke, what are those windows/terminals you spin up and how do you see your file tree like that? Thanks! currently new to linux and would love to have a similar setup!

[@Andyegandiving]

Well done on such a great class on I3. The best I have found yet making it so simple

[@raelonmasters7437]

I have been a i3 user for about a year now and love it, It is the only wm i will use anymore. This vid here just got my subscription. Keep the I3 stuff coming!

[@BennoKushnir]

Do you have a script to save your window-manager-session in i3, so that the next time you log in or when you press a certain key-binding, your windows come up the way you had arranged the before?

[@sc0or]

Floating wms were invented exactly to not see everything at once. Small breaks are very important, and redbools harm your heart. I cannot imagine how it is to see all working windows on a desktop. My mind will blow up indeed. You can say: use them maximized. Well, I can use a floating wm in a same manner )

[@polgzz]

That QR idea is awesome! 👏 Was that a Dmenu script as well or separated? I'll look for that on your docs

[@rockdie9522]

Hey Luke, I would like to get into WMs world, and thinking start with i3. Do you think I should first install a light desktop (like xfce) and then begin to config my i3 on top of it?

[@kenwood7195]

How often do you actually need htop?

[@xoanaraujo]

This is my fisrt time seeing a tiled window manager and its awesome

[@RobsonLanaNarvy]

I'm 2 days trying to get a usable WM on a arch linux and only now I saw the larbs scripts, witch is exactly what I was searching for. I hope to have my own installer script one day. Thank you

[@teunissenstefan]

I would like to thank you for teaching me about i3 scratchpad a while ago.

[@zazkegirotron]

Dude, that was super cool! Thank you for sharing this. I'm also new to window managers and it is fucking amazing.

[@MyVitros]

Complete gold sir! You are ultimate.

[@randomness3235]

What do you use for transparency, compiz?

[@LinuxLuddite]

I used to use a dock with openbox . So tried that with i3 then spend nearly half a day trying to fit each on screen. never try any fancy dock with i3 ... that makes the screen behave funny. thanks for your script.

[@devpiggy]

3 years old video, but the most beautiful setup i have ever seen so far. If your i3 config file still is available i sure want to take a sneak peek. I wanna learn what i dont know so i will not grab everything, that mount scenario you did here. I went through some i3 config videos, and i was thinking you are just another geek doing your thing, and in the middle of the video, whuut, had to watch it again and i just loved it. Think i have seen you in some opsec video too, not sure, peace.

[@einnerlink]

I'd like to have those gaps between windows but sadly i3-gap it's not supported on Debian. It is possible to get i3-gap from Debian though, compiling from source , we can not expect appropriate support for it. By the way, Luke, ¿is it possible to install i3 in any distro in stead of any desktop environment?

[@lsatenstein]

Hi Luke Just because you moved on from I3 to dwm, can you make available your earlier I3 stuff. You said it was better. Better is relative to ones interest or capabilities. I think that for now, I3 would more than meet my requirements as I learn my stages to: "love/learn/be disinterested/hate" tiling interfaces. I found some I3 stuff in the dotfiles. Could you kindly just add a line somewhere to say, I3 stuff is therein.

[@mattia558]

what font do you use to show emojis? I'm struggling with it A LOT lately, especially with urxvt

[@LukeSmithxyz]

>with urxvt Found the problem.

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Actually I should be clear, I'm not just memeing. urxvt, by the way it is built simply cannot handle most unicode characters. If you want to have emojis in your terminal, you'll just have to switch to something else.

[@mattia558]

done, I'm switching to st or lxterminal

[@cedricvillani8502]

Well you have said numerous times in the past about how much better your work flo is with a tiling window manager, working on “Code” no GUI so unless you just type bash commands all day for a living not sure what your gaining. Anyway I liked your i3 scripts for getting everything setup quick and easy, I used your layout for a year.

[@areriff]

I’m watching this video on phone, So Its a little bother to check the installation script. Does the script happen to also install all the little programs/terminal emulator accompanied with their/your own .config files?? It would be great if it does that.

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Yup. All of them. The purpose if to have a fully-functioning system. All the core programs in my setup are installed.

[@brad69420]

As a new linux user, you saved my life

[@resofactor]

Any chance of going back to i3 after your Artix/DWM setup?

[@chil1t0]

I need some help, I want to unistall larbs, the capslock key doesnt work and i dont want to move or change a lot of dotfiles, also all the notificacions theme, functionality and shortcuts are pretty messy and I want to reset all, any way to unistall all the files that LARBS install in the system? I'm using manjaro

[@paleblue6385]

Dude this is such a great freaking video. Thanks for it.

[@kardeslerim-turkishdramaen2279]

Thanks for the vid. Learnt many things. Just a newbie in arch platform.

[@boonkerz]

Which super key you are using for i3 and vim as example? because they must differ or?

[@HuZo1907]

Hey Luke! I see that you don't have shortcuts for adjusting brightness. Any ideas on how I can implement it?

[@kyensho1853]

Go to $Home/.config/i3/config near the bottom change the binding for XF86MonBrightnessUp/Down to xbacklight -dec 5 or something like that

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I already have those bindings mapped to the brightness keys. They may not be documented, but they are mapped. On some machines though, you may need to add a kernel parameter to make them work though.

[@HuZo1907]

@@LukeSmithxyz That's interesting. In $Home/.config/i3/config it seems that XF86MonBrightnessUp/Down is mentioned but when I try using my brightness keys in my ThinkPad L450 (fn+f5/f6) nothing happens. Isn't XF86MonBrightnessUp/Down defaultly binded to FN keys?

[@watchananc]

You can use `xbindkeys` to make it works the way you want.

[@kyensho1853]

I agree ^ - also for anyone using LARBS always double check arch wiki/forums for any threads pertaining to your specific laptop. I have a Dell XPS 15 and had to do quite a bit of extra work to get everything working. Went from 5hrs battery life on Windows to ~11hrs with Arch+LARBS - undervolting the processor and disabling the discrete GPU. wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_T420#Media_Keys If you're still stumped - I'm pretty sure you can just patch it and insert two new lines: bindsym $mod+whatever exec --no-startup-id xbacklight -dec 5 and that should work eh.

[@rexevan6714]

Luke, did you change your terminal theme?. It looks different from what I got from your github repo.

[@LukeSmithxyz]

It reads your Xresources colors so you can just set new colors there.

[@dontpanic2161]

Good day Luke, I was wondering what torrent client do you use for your configuration?

[@phil.4688]

Oh man! you know it's gonna be fun when I use i3 with my 40% keyboard 😜 Much thanks for taking the time to make that vid, have a great one.

[@k.r.3821]

Hello. I have just installed Arch and now I am trying to run your script but I stuck at "failed to install yay." What might be the problem? Thanks.

[@Sweze]

you need to install yay, which you can just google up and do, I've done that myself

[@arrtemfly]

ranger is very nice actually, thanks for showing

[@ulissemini5492]

luke i just wanted to say thanks so much for larbs, i wanted your setup so bad i finally nuked windows and now i'm running with only linux and its so much better! larbs is making arch & i3 more accessable to the masses!

[@HeuristicsEnjoyer]

Yeah this is way better than the old one

[@rajufelix3070]

I like your videos so much

[@HellonWheels777]

I would like to try this but I am disabled and will probably be relying a lot on talon voice, does anyone have any experience using this with voice control?

[@kipper_bronson]

I wish I could get my head around i3. It looks amazing but I'm old. Cant teach an old dog new tricks lol. I have tried though you make it look so easy I'm jealous :)

[@pZq_]

cool stuff more of that... in which cases do you prefer to use tumux then spawning new terminal in the i3 window?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I never use tmux except for the dropdown terminal.

[@mentansh5702]

when you need sessions

[@JaroslavHort]

Edit: I found out that your build of st uses .Xresources as a "config" so I managed to change font sizes via that. I'll leave this question up for anyone facing similar issue. I have a 15" laptop with a 1080p screen and everything is little too small for me, I've managed to make status bar font bigger, but I'm struggling to make things like terminal or FF content bigger. Any help as to what should I do? I've tried to change Xorg scaling, but that resulted in blurry image and it wasn't working very well. In some of your videos, you use a key bind (I guess?) to "zoom in" on a window, I can't find that in your keybind config (maybe I'm blind).

[@1Lll_llllllLLLLllllll_llL1]

i think changing the dpi will help

[@samanerajacob6058]

What are your thoughts on AwesomeWM as an alternative to i3?

[@JhnBravo84]

Dude, I like your videos!!! Subbed

[@numimickey3962]

What software is that, I am currently using arandr, would love a non graphical utility tool

[@RavianXReaver]

Damn! This channel has grown pretty much! GGWP Luke ^_^

[@dmpd8618]

thanks for this video is pretty useful for me because i want to change gnome for i3wm

[@paulogabriel253]

wich terminal emulator do you use?

[@Sylverthis]

You show to the world a way to use a computer in a cool & efficient way ! :) I think this video going to be viral, soon if possible. This may could, on a planetary scale, save a lot of power energy.

[@marcin6386]

Hi Luke Smith, I started also using i3 with ranger. I'm right now expermienting and edit rc config, when I'm using variables like %s I can run shell comand on the name of selected file, when %S - I have nice full path but to the file not encapsulated with quotes. Because of this when I select multiple files I can not run commands. How I can run command with array of dirs ecapsulated with quotes ? Maybe you can help ?

[@bruno-delfino1995]

Congratulation for such a beautiful and efficient system! Although, as you've shown, you use the Super key as Mod for i3 as I do. However, I find it hard to press with my thumb in an efficient (without leaving the home row) and healthy way (without weirdly bending my thumb), but at the same time, I can't think of a better key since Super is so System focused. So here goes my question, how do you press that inconvenient key? Have you thought about using a keyboard with thumb clusters (Keyboardio, ErgoDoxEZ, Diverge)?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I don't really think about how I press it. Nowadays, I map Caps Lock to function as escape if pressed and super if held though, so that might make it easier. The program xcape will help you do that.

[@allegoricalstatue]

> Listening to a Clark Ashton Smith Story based af

[@surfhai]

I installed your dot files but I can't find a way to enable my mouse again. Where is that configuration option, and how can I activate it again via terminal command?

[@aryanzutshi9546]

Will this work on any other distro or is it only arch and artix based?

[@Sun_Seeker]

You are confused. Distributions don't matter that much in terms of programs. You could even run this on BSD if you wanted to. Distributions mostly only change the way packages are installed. Some of them have other subtle differences or they have configured shit but the are mostly the same.

[@harogaston]

Why would you always want to see every window at the same time? How do you navigate webpages? Still got to grab your mouse I guess (or do a ridiculous amount of tabbing). So doesn't it end up being the same that a regular WM? If 90% of your work is done on a console fine, otherwise I don't see how it could improve workflow. I am a developer, and my day goes from IntelliJ, to Firefox, to Thunderbird (I get to answer emails), to console, to Postman, etc. I would be really annoying having to use a tiling window manager I guess.

[@GAMasterMedo]

mouse? nope, navigating webpages: cvim (or alternatives), tabbing? nope, idk, even when using intelliJ, why use a built in shitty console when you can feel right at home with the one you customized. You can always let it take up a bottom 20% of the screen when you need it and full-screen over it. When using the browser you sometimes need to compare 2 websites/console output/uncloned repos so you pop up 2 browsers on the same workspace and tile them left-right or up-down depending on the layout

[@helionfelix6280]

Error duplicate key binding in config file: state mask Ox40 with keysym d, command “exec -no-startup-Id i3-dmenu-desktop” how I fix this?

[@machman23]

Great stuff Luke, thank you, I use i3 on one of my laptops

[@eliinthewolverinestate6729]

Thank you. Never messed with them.

[@lee_land_y69]

Heya, Thanks for the vid. I dont suppose there is a way to make my i3 that pretty without arch linux? Im really used to ubuntu at this point.

[@shawnclemmerson9601]

Nice re-bindings! Thanks for the video and code.

[@nh7399]

Why you need more than 1 window at same time? I mean what work requires that?

[@MadersPie]

OMG THIS RICE IS SO EFFEN AWESOME!!!

[@VIK2000GEV]

Sorry newbie question; will this work on Fedora? when he says it will work on any arch-based that means that it won't work on the debian-based systems?

[@tearworld]

only works on arch based.

[@randomness3235]

It's not linux distro dependent, works in BSD and linux (any distro). It's a window manager.

[@tearworld]

@@randomness3235 LARBs is arch only

[@randomness3235]

@@tearworld what is?

[@randomness3235]

@@tearworld sorry, I meant i3wm, is for any.

[@davidpazouki5741]

Hey I just installed it, but when i change the user I am in my normal desktop environment with his configs. How can I open the tiling window manager?

[@xeryl_]

how do i make my i3 have these nice borders and fonts and look as nice as yours does in the video as well as adding a background?

[@J-Land]

which theme are you running for your windows?

[@DisruptedSinner]

This video is frickin' awesome. Thanks!

[@remixisthis]

Super dope! Just installed Arch today and LARBS saved me a shit ton of trial and error to set it up nice.

[@victornikolov537]

I am wondering is it able gaps to be set to a negative number of pixels? :D

[@squizzers2703]

Yo, I love your rice, but my wifi stops working after I install this. It doesn't work from NM or Wifi-Menu. Please help

[@christosbinos8467]

Resize mode + vim bindings is good.

[@ecolombre]

Nice and interesting video. Thanks a lot. I’m on Gentoo and this is my first experience with i3 wm. Unfortunately I’m stuck at the basics: so let me ask you help please. My problem is that my keyboard isn’t properly configured: normal alphanumeric keys are working but arrow keys and other keys like pgUp and pgDown doesn’t. How can I solve? Even a simple link will be enough. Thank you in advance.

[@riley3269]

Ever thought of switching to sway (or any other Wayland compositor)?

[@SoundToxin]

Wayland still has a lot of issues to work out. I heard that it only supports up to 60fps right now.

[@riley3269]

@@SoundToxin I said it because I've been using it myself for about 6 months. Some things aren't the best but it is very usable. That last point is probably true but I don't go above 60fps anyway.

[@Mostlyharmless1985]

@@SoundToxin do you really need more than 60FPS for a desktop? a tiling desktop at that?

[@SoundToxin]

@@Mostlyharmless1985 It's about options and feature parity, not needs. For instance people who play video games and bought 144hz monitors won't be able to see past 60fps on wayland.

[@Mostlyharmless1985]

SoundToxin video games...Linux... what. No. Pretty damn optimistic if you think you are getting past 100fps in Linux. *puts his earplugs in for the autistic screeches of “but Vulkan and steam proton reeeee”*

[@alimagnetic-iransenigma9647]

so it is the same as tmux, right? which should we choose?

[@MachoMaster]

Why are you using Tmux instead of just spawning new terminals in i3?

[@DefconUnicorn]

nice setup dude and thanks for sharing it!

[@sungwoo_yoo]

hi you change jkl; to hjkl then what about mod +h (horizontal key)???

[@steveboel12]

how does he have those seemingly 1px dark borders around his terminal

[@einnerlink]

How does that mount command works with dmenu? Make it easy for me please? This way I won't have to open Thunar and then switch my external hard drivse or USBs!

[@LPFan33]

hi luke how do i change the weather with the weather module. its too much rain

[@wolverine9632]

5:01 nice flex, respect

[@MartinStark]

Can I still find the scripts for the dmenu monitor switching somewhere?