Solved Question for i3 users (my i3 doesn't show resize)

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scottro

My main tiling window manager is dwm, but through some convoluted thinking, I recently began playing with i3. Editing its config so that it more resembled dwm helped a lot but I am finding that when I hit the resize key combination, (I changed it Mod4+Shift+R, but even if I use defaults this happens), I don't get the little thing that says resize. Playing with i3 on Fedora does show resize, and I also see the resize thing when I use sway.

I'm wondering if this is standard for FreeBSD or is it just my install. It's i3-4.25.1 if that helps, running a CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U with Radeon Graphics.

It's not a big deal, but while I'm getting used to i3 it would be useful. I've only done a cursory web search and didn't come up with anything useful. If it's normal, that's fine too, but if there's a quick fix, I'd like to fix it.
(And, I note in the prefix section, there isn't one for i3, so maybe it's less popular than I'd thought).
 
I use x11-wm/i3 almost exclusively on FreeBSD since many years now. I never experienced your descripted problem, the "resize" string is always shown when I switch to the resize mode (I use the default keybinding $mod+r).

Do you see anything suspecious in the console output when starting i3 with the -V flag and try to switch to the resize mode?
 
No it just said now entering mode resize. But the fact that it's working for you lets me know that it's either an oddity on my install, or the way I configured it. I will try, using the default config.
 
Ok, I think I'll mark this solved. When I use the default configuration, I see the resize string. So, it's something in my config, which answers my question of whether it's FreeBSD or me. It is definitely more important to have my custom configuration than to see the resize text.
 
Of course, after posting, I figured it out. I'd accidentally commented out the bar section. Once I uncommented that, I saw resize as expected. Again I want to thank bsdcode because if you hadn't mentioned it I probably would have just shrugged and used it without the resize text.
 
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