I’ve been using the I3 window manager for a while now and now find no way of going back to a non-tiling window manager. Below are some tips and tricks I’ve picked up along the way.
Moving a floating window
With floating_modifier $mod set, you can move floating windows around with the mouse
when holding down the mod key.
Shared config with extras per machine
Add this to your config.
include ~/dotfiles/i3/hostname.conf
Now you can have specific config in the files ~/dotfiles/i3/laptop.conf and
~/dotfiles/i3/desktop.conf.
Run commands on startup when the network is available
Starting some apps before the network is ready will cause rendering issues for images etc.
Using nm-online you can run the command when the connection is ready:
set $connectCheck nm-online --quiet --timeout=300
exec $connectCheck && slack
exec $connectCheck && google-chrome
More tips and tricks
Find all of my config in my dotfiles.