i3wm: Jump Start (1/3)
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- Welcome to this three-part series on the i3 Window Manager. i3 is a sophisticated tiling window manager for Linux. In this tutorial, you'll learn what i3 is; how to install it; and of course, how to use it. In the second video, you'll learn how to configure it, too!
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TOC
- Introduction (0:00)
- "What does i3wm do?" (0:30)
- How to install i3wm on Ubuntu (2:30)
- Initial configuration (2:30)
- A word on i3wm aesthetics (3:39)
- How to open the terminal in i3 (4:10)
- How to close a window in i3 (4:30)
- How to open the browser (or any application) in i3 (4:35)
- How to tile windows horizontally (5:16)
- How to tile windows vertically (5:40)
- How to change which window has focus (5:59)
- Advanced "jkl;" key-bindings (6:55)
- How to stack or tab open windows (7:38)
- How to move windows in i3 (8:33)
- Introduction to i3 workspaces (10:42)
- How I use i3 workspaces to maximize my efficiency (12:37)
- How to logout (15:19)
- How to lock screen (15:32)
Oh boy did this video send me down a rabbit hole.
~ 4 years of pure bliss started here
My rabbit hole has just begun
@@dontmindme4009 have fun my dude.
You might also want to get into vim (extremely configurable terminal text editor) and bash scripting (automate tasks you do often).
For small terminal applications python can be nice, and if you want to build your own visual program's I can't recommend checking out flutter enough.
@@user-eh5wo8re3d thanks for the advice!
@@user-eh5wo8re3d I just joined the rabbit hole too lmao. My next plan was to learn VIM so funny you mention it.
just started digging !
This video was my gateway to i3 around 2 years ago. Even though I heard about i3 earlier, it sounded very scary since I thought how could I use the computer without a mouse. But this video showed me i3 can be very easy. Right now, I can't even think about using a computer without i3. Thank you Alex for this gift.
same here
"For webdevelopment purposes"
+A Cat Haha
sure
lmao
HAHAHAHA
no?
This is some quality content right here. Excellent narration, clear instructions, perfectly timed demonstrations. Love it!
These videos you posted have made the learning of i3 so easy and the transition into it so smooth. After watching the description and the configuration videos I knew that i3 was the wm I was looking for and now I am enjoying it so much. I removed borders and titles, and the docking bar is hidden only appears when i press the mod key, all the screen is useful space now. And I am loving it. I am just leaving the fun of configuring the bar status for last, it will be the most useful bar ever. Thank you very ver much Alex.
Comments like this one are fantastic to read. Thanks so much for taking the time to write it, lulius.
I just installed it and I'm loving it.
I feel much more productive now.
Great video, you sound like a natural teacher, very clear and well spoken. Never looked at i3 that way, but now I really want to use it too!
+Njul Then use it 😀!
lol . your pfp
@@lenael4747 lmao their pfp speaks a thousand words, what ricing does to a person
Yamete kudasai
Yup! He is organized, narrates clearly, and doesn't assume that the viewer knows anything about i3. His content is exactly what the user needs to know. He is a natural instructor!
I've never imagined that I am gonna fall in love with such a window manager!!
Amazing tutorial. I wish all tutorials online were this high quality, thank you!
Honestly, I didn't even consider using i3 - just wanted to see why people liked it so much. You articulate the content so well in a steady voice, that I was disappointed that you don't have more content similar to this. Really think you would do an amazing job teaching about different tech, if you presented them in this format!
I haven't used i3 so far and this tutorial was fantastic for someone with no experience like me. Thank you so much.
Top tutorial, Very professional, Well presented, Articulate, Intelligent, and passionate. Well done dude. You raised the RUclips bar.
saw awesome window manager and fell in love with it. now that i found your tutorial i immediatley switched to i3. Just so beautiful. Thanks for the nice turorial
Very nice, this is really well done. I'm new to i3 and look forward to your upcoming (configuration) video.
+Adrian Thanks, Adrian. I have been working hard on it today - it should be online tomorrow!
You really deserve more subscribes. Love the quality of your content / pacing / right to the point style. Great work.
Your tutorial is exactly what I've been looking for!!! You were clean, concise and very easy to understand. You've definitely got a subscriber so looking forward to seeing more of your work and if you have a patreon I will definitely donate!!!
a guy at work mentioned i3 to me, but I didn't really understand. but i really liked seeing his workflow. seeing this video, i get it now. this is one of the best things i've seen. thanks.
Alex, this series makes for a really nice introduction to i3. It certainly smoothed my foray into i3, which is simply awesome (pun intended)! :)
I just wanted to say the level of production quality in this video is great. I've subbed and will be checking out the other 2 videos in the series next.
This is excellent. I've seen a lot of nice i3 setups on Reddit and I thought "I should give that a try!"
so I installed i3 and promptly got lost. Opened Gnome back up and found this video and now I'm ready to give i3 another try
This looks very cool, definitely gonna try it. I really like that minimalistic feel.
+Георгїй Срьбьскъ Yeah, it's awesome. Let me know how you get on!
also, thank you very very much for the timestamps in the video. they are super helpful. i was on-off learning about i3wm and so everytime i came back to this video it was really easy for me to navigate where i left
Absolute god-tier tutorial. Thank you for gracing us with this.
Extremely good tutorial with nice clear cut instructions and tips.
I always thought this was harder, but you made it too easy to understand, i love it!
thanks alex..great tutorial about i3..till now i was running arch+openbox on my old machine..but i installed i3wm and followed your videos..loving my desktop now..
You have a nice calm voice which makes it nice to listen to. Good tutorial.
Probably the best tutorial on i3. tysm :D
Bruh, I'm sold. I was in the middle of configuring open box in Arch for pentesting. This video completely sold me on i3. Will be installing it tonight.
you dropped your crown king 👑
11:26 - there is a maximize button, it's Mod + f by default. But yeah, it's better to move it to another workspace if you're going to be keeping it there for awhile.
Going into tabbed mode also effectively replaces minimizing and maximizing windows
Just wanna come back to this and thank you. I've been using i3 ever since i found this video a few years back. I copied your config files and edited a few things and now it feels like second nature.
Great Video series, made a very easy and fun start with i3.
Great video mate, finally someone doing something about the shortage of HD/high-quality linux tuts on youtube.
+Jop Roskam I appreciate the compliment but there are quite a few awesome Linux RUclips channels out there.
Code Cast Please highlight a few in a comment?
Very comprehensive and easy to follow tutorial. Great job! Subbed.
+Cameron Lengerich Thank you.
I salute you sir. I've been working with this mental model for so long in gnome and others, but this is the environment built for myself... and it took me so long to find it...
Basically, tried i3 out and I was immediately in home waters
Dude thank you so much !! finaly i have learned how to use a tiled window manager , so happy is so productive i never found such good tutorial in internet like this.
This is amazing. These are the videos that will help windows users like me make the full switch to linux.
I was actually searching for a good one, thanks to the algorithm my laziness to search was rewarded again.
very concise and clear . Keep up the good work man!
Was on the fence about tiling window managers... but after this video, I think I'm sold... if I end up switching to Linux again I'm trying this out...
Ok, you just decided for me which window manager I'm going to use.
YES!
I am impressed with your demo of i3wm. I am going to try it.
Super comprehensive and easy to understand, thanks for this.
I cannot belive this video was released 7 years ago! The quality is so good.
Thanks for these videos. I've been thinking about getting into my first Tiling WM for a while now.
+sw2de3fr4gt No worries.
Your rofi config is so neat, I just had to steal it. It's amazing how cool and clean it looks while consuming so few resources.
Best i3wm demo/presentation/tutorial. Great job Alex & thanks. i3wm will be part ow my daily php development since now :-)
these videos, to put it simply, are awesome. awesome.
I was just watchin and i felt like you really put in effort in this... Definitely subbed
Thanks for the great tutorial. I was finally able to jump into a tiling window manager.
Very useful video. Thanks for sharing your experience and making this detailed tutorial. I already heard of i3 before but never really thought about installing it. Now that I've got a grip on it's potential, I will most probably install it.
This is a great basic video to get started with i3wm. Thank you.
Excellent tutorial! Many, many thanks for creating such a clear and well made video
This is perfect for me.... I use a lot of terminal and you, sir, just completed my life. Love you, no homo
+Jcon I appreciate the love 😆
This is the first time i am in this channel. And i absolutely love it. Keep it going :') definitely checking out other videos
This series is completely awesome! Thank you :D
+Dev Wurm Thanks for saying so
Excellent explanation sir. Thanks! Still helpful in 2022.
Excellent! Really well made introduction to i3!
Just started playing with i3 and even though this is a pretty old series, it has helped me TONS! One thing I'll say is that if you are on a laptop with the lid closed, until you understand you need to disable it with xrandr/arandr,etc., you'll beat your head against the wall as to where workspace 1 went to. heh heh. TYVM!
Fantastic video! Definitely one of the best I've ever seen of it's type. I'll be sure to watch #2 & 3, and will be switching to i3 asap! I'm pretty happy with Manjaro, so will be installing the newest manjaro i3 15.12 on my new (refurbished) x220!
+Nick Furfaro Awesome. I tried the Manjaro i3 Community Edition a couple of months back. I thought it was really good actually, but I still prefer starting with a clean slate, so I use Arch.
Even if I knew basicly everything you mentioned it was still fun to watch. Just for the purpose of seeing someone else config i3. Your vids are well structured and the way you speak makes it easy to follow. Really good vids! Keep doing what you are doing!
+L2PTQ Thanks 😄
Oh, man you are such a grate teacher, to the point. Always!
Thanks a lot..! I had many doubts but now I can understand how to use clearly, you're the best one.
This is outstanding and just what I wanted. Thank you!
great job Alex! Thank you!
+hermes 2xgreat No problem!
thanks for your tutorial series it really helped me a lot
Thank you! Awesome tutorial. Direct to the point as it should be.
Thanks for this tutorial series. Helped me a lot.
Incredibly well explained....thanks
Hands down best how-to for i3 and video 3 is a killer general ricing howto.
I had to stop a leave a comment here. I yet again came back to these videos for something.
everyone watch all 3. The 3rd video is great for any gtk based window manager.
Nice video bro! You brought me in the world of window manager
I hadn't known why someone used this wm to instead of gnome/kde...Now, I have got it...and enjoyed i3wm....Thank you, bro!!!!
+Đức Minh Nguyễn That's awesome!
It's about workflow and simplicity, Maybe it's just not for you, And that's Ok, which is why there's Gnome/KDE/Cinnamon etc.
Cheers
Gentoo +i3 = no resources wasted on DE. I'm under 100MB :)
ikr me too. I removed a lot from the default runlevel, and now i have few services running at the time, usually around 70mb
@@dangerosking You get to save RAM
Very helpful. Thanks a lot man. Keep doing the great work.
omg! thank you so much! spent hours trying to figure things out, and your video answered all of my questions! looking forward to future videos.
You're welcome!
The best tutorial for me. You are very good doing this. Thanx for sharing.
Great intro to tiling window managers. Thanks!
This is an absolute godsend, thanks a lot for this!
Thank you so much for the video, i3 is actually pretty cool and organized.
Alex's voice is awesome, I also liked those Cherry BlueMX sound through out the video :D
Your tutorials are great! Detailed and informative. Keep going on.
+thesmileynoob Thank you so much 😀
a nice explanation . i'll watch you next video right now
Great tutorial. No time wasted like no space in i3
Man, great introduction.. Loved it..
I was really intimidated by i3, and was really nervous to try it. Just this video alone made all those intimidation feel foolish and silly. Thank you for making simple and explanatory content. SUBBED!!!!!!!
Great video for beginners. If you are a beginer and have no idea where to begin your exciting new i3 journey, you gotta check this.
Very usefull!, i just installed i3 and this guide is really helping me out ^^
Really great job on these videos! I've been using i3 for quite a while now and have been messing with colour settings etc a lot. Your videos inspired me to finally set up the appropriate workspace names with icons etc ;).
+Japhir Thanks for the kind words, Japhir. It makes me really happy to hear I have motivated someone :)
This is a really good explanation! SUBSCRIBED!
thank you so much man. You're a legend
Thank you so much I just got into linxu and stuff like that, and this is a godsend.
Thanks Alex. This is a really slick tutorial and I'm grateful to be viewing it. I have mostly been living in i3 for a week. I like it but there are a couple of irritations. First, I'm used to dynamic tiling such as qtile and this one isn't a true dynamic tiler. So it takes a little getting used to. But the second issue is absolutley crazy! Why on earth did the developers choose the J K L ; keys to navigate when every other WM followed the vim nav keys? Being a longtime vim user I could not get used to this and was messing up on a regular basis. I'm thankful that the i3wm developers put the ability to change the nav keys in the conf. But beyond these grievances it is a good piece of software. It's snappy, easy to configure with it's literate configuration file, and best of all, It has a huge community of folks that are willing to help (Like yourself). Cheers man!
This is amazing, thank you so much. I will get started with i3.
+The Brain Technician Thank _you_ 😉!
Nice, I like your in depth tutorials! Thanks for making them. Will you also do a series on xmonad and other linux related videos? Subscribed!
great tutorial, good pacing and very detailed
Well done. Excellent overview with examples.
+Jason Murray I'm glad you appreciate all the examples. As a visual learner myself, I know they are what I would have liked to see.
Dude, i3 is the best window manager EVER!
Valuable information, thanks so much
Thanks for sharing! I3wm is amazing!
This is the first time I learn something about i3 and I really start to feel powerful in a weird way just by watching this video. Is it just me or someone else here?
Me too
It is The Force. It allows you to see ones and zeros without a traditional GUI. Use The Force wisely.