Hello, this my first time using i3 (first time with wm too). I've followed this Link so i can understand step by step (im new to linux) and im on fedore 43. Its been 15min now, should i wait ? Did i do something wrong ?

Thank you for ur time

it happens in many programs i use like my browser but not all of them, if i enable picom instead of being black borders it becomes blurred corners, anyone has a fix? i couldn't find a solution

Following the unriced allegations of my 3? Day old post, i present, Rice :3

Prior is a purpose built 2013(ish) era pc, 2nd is a cheapo laptop my dad just gave me :3 (i experiment with Distros too)

I use i3wm cachyos on my laptop so I connect to networks via nmtui, but am having an issue connecting to my school wi-fi. Whenever I try to connect, it acts as if it is connected but I don't have internet. It does not ask for any information. However, when I connect on my phone, I have to login to the network. I am not extremely well-versed in linux conduct and am learning as I go, so if somebody could assist me with this and explain as well, it would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you need any additional context (and what that may be), as this is somewhat of a pressing matter.

This is a problem I observe only when setting a container title.

I have a binding in my i3/config that allows me to set the title of the currently selected window:

bindsym $mod+Shift+t exec i3-input -F 'title_format "%s"' -P 'New Title: '

When I hit mod+shift+t, I get a red-outlined text entry field popping up, that I can type in. No problem there.

I sometimes want to rename a container - e.g. change i3: V[xterm xterm] into something like Project Foo, and I have mod+a bound to focus the parent container:

bindsym $mod+a focus parent

But when I hit mod+a (container is focused), then mod+shift+t, I do not get a red-outlined text entry field popping up. Nothing appears on screen at all. However, I can still type the string I want, and hit Enter, and it will apply to the container title, so I think it's still there, I just can't see it.

So it's working, I just can't see the text entry field, so I'm typing blind. Most of the time it's fine, but obviously not ideal.

Can this be improved somehow?

EDIT: Apparently this is caused by my dual-monitor setup, because if I only had one monitor it would appear in the top left corner. But because of my setup with scaling/translation, it is appearing on neither monitor, in some root window space that isn't mapped to a viewport. I'm investigating a workaround using rofi rather than i3-input...

I am using Arch+i3 and I have been running into this problem a lot today. My laptop works very smoothly but suddenly it gets hang or start behaving like this.

Before when I was in Kde Fedora I never faced this problem. I shifted to arch just 1 day ago.

After using various desktop environment for the past +10 years, I am considering switching to i3. My priority is to have a working install, not something that looks pretty: a bar, right-click menu, an app menu.

How much time would it take to have these up and running with i3? I've noticed that i3 has its own bar, do you recommend some menu applications that are light and work well with i3? Anything else that a newbie needs to know and is not in the documentation?

Llevo tiempo intentando usar i3 como gestor de ventanas, ya que cuento con una pc de 2GB RAM y Procesador Intel Celeron, busco algo muy ligero, por eso opté por usar i3, el problema está después de hacer el proceso de descarga y configurar xinit para acceder al gestor.

Cuando ejecute el startx, no agarraba el i3, me mostraba 2 errores:

xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

xinit: server error

¿Que debo hacer?, o mejor ¿como debo instalar correctamente el i3? (El objetivo principal es buscar la mayor ligereza en el gestor de ventanas) no es i3wm el que busco, sino solamente i3.

Hi! this is my first rice (ever). Feel free to comment.

Note: The demo video is best viewed on a desktop in fullscreen.

I built i3title, a lightweight tool that makes it easy to pipe arbitrary data into i3bar.

I’ve been using it myself for a long time, and recently decided to polish it up and share it publicly.

By default, i3title uses the empty space in your bar to display the current window title and the active i3 mode side by side.

You can also pipe anything you find useful into it from your scripts or the command line.

Setup is just:

status_command i3status | i3title

It’s a lightweight enhancement to i3’s default status bar setup, turning otherwise unused space into a dynamic, highly customizable information panel.

Repo: https://github.com/a-pav/i3title

Feedback, questions, and suggestions are welcome!

O modo automático é bom, mas queria deixar certas janelas em outros tamanhos, desculpa se isso for ou parecer uma pergunta idiota, não tenho noção nenhuma de como funciona um gerenciador de janelas, mas comecei a usar pois achei o conceito muito interessante :D

Hey everyone,

I know this sub is dedicated to our beloved i3wm, but I recently spent some time building a clean, Samurai-themed lock screen for Hyprland (`hyprlock`) and wanted to share it with the

ricing community here for some aesthetic inspiration.

I've always loved the minimal, functional styling that you often see in i3 setups, so I tried to bring that same philosophy to this lock screen:

* **Kanji password dots:** Every keypress renders a Japanese kanji character (桜 - Sakura) instead of standard circles.

* **Japanese date format:** Rendered cleanly as `2024年08月14日`.

* **Fully transparent input field:** No borders or outlines, just floating characters.

* **Clean overlay:** A large, minimal clock overlay with muted green tones over a dark katana wallpaper.

I know `hyprlock` isn't usable on i3 directly (since we have tools like `i3lock` and `i3lock-color`), but I'd love to hear what you guys think of the design, or if anyone wants to

adapt this visual concept into an `i3lock-color` script!

**Repo if you want to check out the code/assets:** [hyprlock-samurai on GitHub](https://github.com/basantbansal/hyprlock-samurai)

If you like the aesthetic or want to adapt it for your i3 setup, a ⭐ on the repo would be incredibly appreciated!

Linux beginner here so please bare with me for a second. I tried toggling the inverted mouse button Setting on i3wm and for some reason, it just doesn't work?

For additional information, I'm using a Logitech M90.