Using Autotiling on i3 Makes It Even BETTER!

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[@READERSENPAII]

how is this man not more popular? I've basically learned everything i know about configuring files from him lol.

[@justins7796]

just the video i needed man, i'm still on the fence with using i3 daily. i log into it, but small things like needing to change orientation of spawned windows feels like a chore and not faster than a generic Openbox config where i can manually tile windows into corners. If there's a sort of manual tiling ability to add on top of dynamical tiling that'd be awesome, but i get that would go against i3 as a tiling WM.

[@auricom242]

Bro, your polybar is absolutely stunning

[@diyfan2808]

That is not polybar that is EWW (Elkowar's Waky Widgets) atleast I think

[@orangejuice732]

@@diyfan2808 certainly looks like it. Thanks for dropping the name I’ve near heard of it before

[@auricom242]

@@diyfan2808 Have to check that out, thanks for the name!

[@LordHonkInc]

What an interesting little script. I personally still prefer manual tiling (like, yeah it takes an extra button press, but autotiling WMs rarely give me the layout I really want anyways so I still have to futz with them) but for folks who like it, this is pretty nifty. And yeah, I can totally relate to trying out all sorts of tiling WMs and still coming back to i3; I don't know if it's the multihead workspace configuration, or the readability of the config file, or something else I can't even put into words, but i3 just… works too well for me, y'know.

[@colbybraden]

Thanks now i'm using i3 again :) this script really makes it function very similar to bspwm (my favorite wm)

[@vitocorleone650]

I'm new on window tiling managers, can u explain quickly how can i rice i3 like you? or share your dotfiles if that is possible, thanks!!!

[@MENTOKz]

Nice one Matt love the video and i agree love i3 but if it had master stack it be the king.

[@Nomad-qm3zf]

Pop Shell does the spiral auto tiling too and can be installed in Gnome

[@wedge_one]

Exactly! I was going to comment this. Ever since I tried the Pop_OS autotiling, I can't stop using it, and I'm running it on my Manjaro!

[@Nomad-qm3zf]

@@wedge_one I'm running it on Fedora with absolutely no issues.

[@Perry....]

And gnome is dog shit so, hard pass 🤪

[@leblancbot3682]

you should take a deeper look into Emacs. I would suggest a series called "Emacs from scratch"

[@cosmiccuttlefish5765]

Huge agree. Emacs is one of the best ways to interact with your system.

[@OpusFocus1968]

Matt has done 3 reviews with Emacs. The likelihood of him doing a 4th are slim to none. He however can speak for himself.

[@warnaoh]

Why would anyone waste so many hours when you have already everything you need. Corny geeks

[@Flackon]

I know I'm in the minority but I can't imagine giving up the control a manual tiling manager give me. I often need particular layouts and being able to create them on the fly is great. That said, sometimes an automated solution would be nice. There are times where control over the placement of windows is not so important. This script seems to be a bit hacky though. Far from a "best of both worlds" solution. Doesn't seem to let you switch layout styles when the windows are already open. It just switches splits back and forth

[@mesbahuddin5328]

Hey bro, could you do a video abt policy kit and authentication agent for standalone window manager users?

[@Sqwert-g6h]

The only thing I hate about i3 is the way it handles workspaces. If the workspaces were more like bspwm's implementation, I'd switch back right now.

[@rivubardhan6376]

hi use dk window manager...its best of i3 bspwm and dk.

[@davidprock904]

Have you ever used what i3 come from? wmii

[@thomaskosvic6103]

In the intro, it was stated that your normal number of open windows was 2. If that is the case, why would you waste any time on a window manager at all.

[@TheLinuxCast]

2 monitors. 20 workspaces. Windows on most of them.

[@Xxjoker21xX]

WHY HAVE SUCH A BASIC WM IT'S LIKE GOING ALMOST BACK TO DOS!

[@qNick100]

This is nice script but moving windows between master and stack doesn't work very well.

[@sunriseleatherco.6587]

2300 packages though! 😝😄

[@ramasubramanian3154]

what is the transparemcy and blur values for the terminal you were using?

[@lennarda.322]

Bro I like your channel and support it but instead of tuning your setup all the time, you should make your background prettier. Especially since you want to build an KZbin audience.

[@TheLinuxCast]

You must be new. My background has changed over the last three or four videos and is still being worked on.

[@thingsiplay]

Strange that the most important aspect of a tiling window manager, the tiling window management, is something that you don't care too much about. :D Not hating or so, just a bit funny to me. I get it, there is more to it, so don't take my reply too seriously. I started with i3 too, but really disliked the manual tiling aspect, especially because I read there are automatic tilers out there. Otherwise I really liked i3, but after a while found out about Qtile, which is perfect fit to me. It is written and most importantly configured in Python and is automatic tiling, with a bunch of layout logics to choose from (to imitate BSPWM or XMonad in example). I just wrote my first extension for it and couldn't be more happier than that (I could, there are still flaws). So now I am continue watching your video. Had to comment after 1:19 . :D

[@prabhurock1169]

We are quite opposite 😁... Btw , what's your opinion on tabbed mode ?

[@thingsiplay]

@@prabhurock1169 I didn't make use of tabbed mode while I was on i3. So cannot say anything about it, other than just trying things out.

[@rarminqorset3628]

That's just bspwm with few extra steps

[@TheLinuxCast]

Nah, i3 has other features. Scratchpads for one, that Bspwm doesn't have.

[@rarminqorset3628]

@@TheLinuxCast yea but how often do you use it even? I use xfce4 btw so I am not team i3 or bspwm.

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@rarminqorset3628 dozens of times a day.

[@rarminqorset3628]

@@TheLinuxCast hey can you do a video on mounting apps in Linux? Yknow iso img files etc? Also some scripts in Arch regarding mounting. There is no video regarding that

[@itsfish8672]

GVM.

[@shubhampawar7921]

If you're going to use i3 without manual tiling just use dk wm

[@TheLinuxCast]

Nope. I like i3

[@msor6108]

@@TheLinuxCast just use tmux in tty😅😅

[@sandeepvk]

Why bother ie when awesome do all this from the box

[@falx966]

STOP using external scripts when i3 has already a built in function which does dynamic tiling. e.g. _ autotiling: for_window [class="URxvt"] split toggle _ manual "dynamic" tiling: mod+q split toggle

[@sohailnoob]

I'm new & would really appreciate some explanation

[@falx966]

@@sohailnoob What explanation do you need? The post is very explicit: for auto tiling (dynamic tiling) add the following to i3 config: *_for_window [class="XTerm"] split toggle_* If you want to use the manual way of "dynamic tiling" add: *_mod+Key split toggle_* to your i3 config