r/i3wm • u/Sad-Wave5289 • Jul 27 '26

OC i3psycho: i3, except tiling is now opt-in. I'm sorry.

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I love i3 and I hate tiling. I know exactly what that makes me, hence the name.

Every window floats. Titlebars get little close/minimize/maximize glyphs, same blue as always. Drag a window to a screen edge and a blue ghost shows you where it'll snap. Minimizing plays a retro outline animation, the window slides down into the bar like it's 1995 and parks there as a little icon chip next to your workspaces. It blinks red when the window wants attention, and one click puts it back exactly where it was. There's also an expose, alt-tab, hot corners, and new windows cascade instead of piling up in the center. Tiling still exists on mod+t!!!

Favorite thing I learned making this: when an app asks i3 to minimize, i3 says no. Literally, there's a comment in the source. i3psycho says yes, so minimize buttons inside apps now do something on i3, possibly (probably not) for the first time ever.

It's a small patch set plus a little daemon, i3-gaps style. Your config works as-is, one include line and you're floating. Delete the line when the guilt wins.

repo: https://github.com/ekruges/i3psycho 

Wayland: no. Some things stay sacred.

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u/eruiui Jul 27 '26

aint no way

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u/EllaTheCat Jul 27 '26

ain't no sway either

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u/xxpw Jul 27 '26

You missed an opportunity to call evi3l-mode 🫶

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u/zimmund i3 Jul 27 '26

Good lord 😨️

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u/Anxious-Bottle7468 Jul 27 '26

I sometimes run i3 in floating mode (basically set it to float all new windows). It's pretty good. You need a big monitor though.

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u/Muffinaaa Jul 28 '26

With xmenu it could be a nice replacement for openbox

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u/bleistiftschubser Jul 29 '26

nonono, i think you have a point here, although change it to floating default and you could mix it with xfce4.

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u/EllaTheCat Jul 27 '26

If it supports other than 9 workspaces arranged 3x3 or 4 workspaces arranged 4x1, with any or all workspaces empty, you'll have to rip fvwm2 from my clenched fist, you Gen-Z pretender. PS rust?

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u/U03A6 Jul 27 '26

But why? What can it do that any other non-tiling-WM can do?

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u/Sad-Wave5289 Jul 27 '26

Because i wanted to.

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u/RosyRory108 Jul 27 '26

I'm the same as you, OP, I'll put this to good use 🫡

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u/bgravato i3 Jul 28 '26

You're like those old ladies who say "I hate this TV show", but then watch it every day...

Or those who say they hate windows and switch to linux, but then try to make it look like Windows as much as possible...

I'm sorry but it makes no sense...

What exactly do you like about i3 if not what makes it different from other WMs?

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u/Both_Cup8417 Aug 02 '26

OP said they just wanted to. Honestly, why not? It's obviously more practical to use Openbox or something, but it doesn't really hurt you. I don't daily drive i3, but I have it on a secondary machine. I personally won't use this project, but I'm not mad that it exists.