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i3 Tiling Classic

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01. Overview & Architecture02. Installation & Deployment03. Screenshot Gallery04. Documentation & Guide05. Keyboard Shortcuts

01. Overview & Architecture

Profile: 4.25.1
Purpose
The iconic, rock-solid X11 tiling window manager designed for speed and clarity.
Compatibility
Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Fedora, Void Linux, Linux Mint (Server: X11)
Desktop Part
WM & compositors
Window Manager & Theme
i3 / Classic Engineering Monochrome
Key Components
Bar: i3bar / i3status•Terminal: Xterm / Alacritty•Launcher: Dmenu•Notifications: Dunst•Editor: Vim
Full Description
The golden standard of manual tiling window managers. i3 is lightweight, extremely well-documented, clean, and runs reliably on any Linux distribution without needing composite GPU drivers.
Architecture & Technical Design

The golden standard of manual tiling window managers. i3 is lightweight, extremely well-documented, clean, and runs reliably on any Linux distribution without needing composite GPU drivers.

02. Installation & Deployment

Method: Verified Command

Step-by-step deployment protocol

Step-by-step deployment
1Install i3 package suite
$sudo apt install i3 i3status dmenu alacritty dunst
2Initialize ~/.config/i3/config
$mkdir -p ~/.config/i3
$cp /etc/i3/config ~/.config/i3/config
3In-place restart of i3
$i3-msg restart

03. Screenshot Gallery // i3 Tiling Classic

i3 desktop with clean window tiling and gaps01
01_I3_GAPS_DESKTOP.RAW
i3 multi-monitor container layout02
02_I3_BIGPICTURE.RAW
Logo03
LOGO.RAW
Capture 01 // Fullscreen
i3 desktop with clean window tiling and gaps
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04. Documentation & Guide

Source: i3/i3Ref: be04c853ee
README.md|GitHub Flavored Markdown
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Logo i3: A tiling window manager

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i3 is a tiling window manager for X11.

For more information about i3, please see the project's website and online documentation.

For information about contributing to i3, please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

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05. Keyboard Shortcuts

Total: 4 shortcuts
SUPER + RETURNShortcut
exec, alacritty
Open terminal
SUPER + DShortcut
exec, dmenu_run
Launch application menu
SUPER + SHIFT + QShortcut
kill
Kill window
SUPER + SHIFT + RShortcut
restart
Restart i3 in place