You can do almost everything from the keyboard, or mix up keyboard and mouse. It supports tiling, stacking, tabs, virtual desktops, and multiple monitors. The i3 tiling window manager is a nice modern tiling window manager for GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems. I know, Windows 3.1 wasn’t very good for much actual work, but it did stacking and tiling windows rather nicely.

Now when I reference $mod in this guide I will say super.I’ve been a fan of tiling window managers ever since Windows 3.1. I like it that way, because it doesn't interfere with other app's keybinding. The first thing you want to do is change the $mod to the super key. Open up the config located at~/.config/i3/config`. Pressalt + d gnome-terminal or whatever your favorite term is. To open up a terminal, you can usually press `alt +īut at the moment your config doesn't have that configured. The bar probably isn't working, it's all dark, and it uses a terrible monospace font. Now, when you go into i3, it will not look great. Click on the scroll wheel and click 'i3'. Before you log in, you will have to specify that you want to get into i3 and not GNOME. I3-gaps is a package on Arch, so we can install it using pacman: $ sudo pacman -S i3-gaps If you don't have it, that's fine, you will just have to figure some stuff out on your own. Note: This guide assumes you arch with GNOME installed. It has gaps functionality, which means you can see some of your background while you have open windows. Luckily Airblader has forked i3 to make i3-gaps. However, vanilla i3 without customization looks terrible. I like i3 because it has pretty easy to use keybindings, a great user guide and great customization.

Most WMs are hard to use at first, but are super customizable and much lighter than any DE. That means it is like any normal window manager, but with keybindings.

I3 window manager