i3wm

Hello, I just installed FreeBSD in a Vmware. And installed the required packages for i3 (plus rofi). It started twice without any problems, but now all I get is a blank screen. And <alt> [Enter] doesn't not open a terminal? TIA, David

I want to assign certain key-combinations in the window manager to do some things. Problem is different applications capture different keys already and they should not conflict with the window manager assigned keys. An example for workspace stuff sway uses by default e.g. windows_key-1. But...

Somebody knows what is the problem here ? i3 Config File: https://pastebin.com/RZbZmwdA

I'm trying to solve an issue with Nextcloud core dumping when I sign into my user session. My suspicion is it has to do with my keyring. I switched from KDE to i3, which also meant I switched from kwallet to gnome-keyring. With my infinite knowledge (or 0) of debuggers, I did a backtrace and...

I got no real idea of what I am doing... now that's broad statement.. lol I am trying to get xfce-terminal to be default terminal in i3 . but it has a list of presidents , xfce-terminal being below Eterm and others. I tried chaing this. loged out of i3 and back again and i3 keeps opening eterm...

Hi there, I hope that someone has solved the problem for using chrome under the 4K monitors, I have a Thinkpad P51 with 4K and I got the chrome tab address etc soo tiny I had made xrandr --dpi 282 somethings has changed on the size fonts of i3status Apart from that I have problems because I'm...

i3wm is a tiling window manager which has the ability to create floating sticky windows, which will remain visible when you switch workspaces This allows you to have a floating sticky window containing a video player like mpv, which will remain visible when you switch workspaces. Studies have...

Sway is a wayland tiling window manager that is intend as replacement for i3wm The i3wm tiling window manager is as the French would say "les couettes des chiens" Sway requires Wayland, running pkg search wayland returns these results kf5-kwayland-5.56.0 KF5 Client and Server...

I would like to give me some help about how to configure themes on dwm i have seen some themes and need some help and also if there is a complete guide to dwm (or i3) themes and patches that would be nice. Also my last testing with freebsd was with freebsd 13 and kde plasma i installed every...

What theme do you use to get uniformed look for QT and GTK applications? They looks very different and libreoffice has Windows'95 disguise. :-D On KDE, Breeze provided uniformed look for everything.

Hi there, I switched to i3 recently and only after upgrading my freeBSD to version 12 (on FreeBSD 10 and 11 I was running WindowMaker). i3wm in general is working perfectly so far the only noticeable and super annoying issue I'm having is with the i3bar; which disappears every time I have a...

Hey guys :) I am trying to install x11/xorg and x11-wm/i3 OS: FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE[/I] CPU/GPU: Intel Core i5-2450M SandyBridge iGPU Laptop?: yes Intel Driver: installed (x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel) i915kms: loaded x11/xorg error message (using startx as non-root...

So I ve ran an simple update today and the keyboard does not work when I start i3 (the only wm I use). It does work under X... since I can log in and so on... I m getting the following error Thank you in advance!

Hi, This fine forum has been very helpful through my FreeBSD journey, but one thing is bugging me. For Linux I used i3pystatus to manage my i3 status bar, for my configs see here, but as soon as I tried it on FreeBSD it became apparent it wouldn't work for it, as it relied on /proc/* and other...

I just knocked up a little bash script to switch audio devices because i use i3wm instead of Desktop like gnome I have 3 audio devices, the built in speakers, headphones and a usb dac So i created a script to easily switch audio outputs called switch-audio, which lets you see the current...

So I've reached my wits end with Linux I think and I don't care what software I'm giving up, I just need a working, stable workstation. Because of this I am also thinking about giving up on KDE Plasma 5, as much as I love it. I have my eyes set on i3 and just having the basics for UI so every...

Hi :) Which graphical web browser has the best out-of-the-box experience in i3? IMHO www/qutebrowser seems a good candidate ;)

Greetings :) Battery's path in Linux is /sys/class/power_supply/Bat%d/uevent, so where is in FBSD?

My core temp is not showing up in i3. In i3status/config I have: order += "cpu_temperature 0" cpu_temperature 0 { format = "T: %°C" } I tried also with path = "hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature" as discussed in https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/52569/. In rc.conf: kld_list="coretemp" And...

Hi, I am running i3wm and I configured most of the desktop to use x11-fonts/terminus-font, including urxvt. It was working as expected while I was using pkg (exclusively), however when I managed to have the things more or less how I want to, I rebuilt everything using ports-mgmt/synth what did...