i3wm
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i3wm
i3wm is a simple tiling window manager for Linux. Customisation is easy, and it comes with useful defaults.
Config
Bar
You can set different bars for different screens. For example I find it useful to have time, date, battery, and volume always on my laptop screen, and have some monitoring stuff like free disk space, Internet bandwidth, and RAM usage when i have a secondary monitor plugged-in.
So I have two seperate bar{}
sections in my main i3 config file, one for each. You just need to give them each a label, a screen to target, and a seperate config to load.
For example this is at the top of each bar
definition:
id bar-main output LVDS1 status_command i3blocks -c ~/.config/i3blocks/config-main
id bar-secondary output VGA1 status_command i3blocks -c ~/.config/i3blocks/config-secondary
Tools
- i3parse - scans config file for unused keys (+?)
i3wm.1604286116.txt.gz · Last modified: 2020/11/02 14:01 by rjt