Comments on: How to Install and Use i3 Window Manager on Linux

By: Enrique

Enrique — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:08:52 +0000

I created a micro-project (nano-project actually) to launch i3 on top of a virtual TigerVNC server.

This allows to have different i3 desktops per server (maybe for different users) and access them remotely (or locally from a standard Gnome desktop). And of course, it is open-source and can be easily be extended adapted for different scenarios:

https://github.com/earizon/tigervnc_remote_desktop

Hope you enjoy it!

By: Onkara

Onkara — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:51:44 +0000

Thanks for answering the namespace switching question. The other question is what is the fastest way to switch between applications or windows of an application (like multiple browser windows)? I think one could use one namespace per app but then you will have to remember the app to namespace mapping. Currently what I do with Gnome is set to keyboard shortcuts and use the jump app to switch using shortcuts, it works flawlessly mostly, but I am interested in i3wm

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:27:58 +0000

In reply to Onkara.

Go to https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html to see a User Guide that explains how to run I3wm.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 04:48:13 +0000

In reply to Onkara. @Onkara, Press $mod+num to switch to another workspace, where num is the number of the workspace you want to use.

By: Onkara

Onkara — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:05:45 +0000

How to switch between different workspaces?