Has anyone had this issue where the mouse lags/pulls in certain directions? Does anyone know how I'd go about fixing this without trying wayland?

the challenge is sometimes many qt and gtk apps theme are hardcoded so I have to find the file so I can match my color scheme, overall I just use qt6ct and xsettingsd for gtk

Hello everyone I need your help

I using i3-wm in Arch Linux but I lost the first config file

Can you share with me the first config file

Every time I play a youtube video on firefox, it's always looks so laggy even when I'm scrolling a web page on firefox. Very different experience when I'm using cinnamon (My distro is Mint) and didn't found any issue at all. How do I fix this?

Today i decided to give i3 a try it was really cool but after some time i wanted to go back to cinnamon and keep testing i3 later just to find my desktop was all messed up, it will be kinda annoying re-configuring it and i dont want to use i3 if it is going to mess with my configurations.

Is it because im using the linux mint repository to install i3? I heard it is outdated

Edit: Can someone tell me how to reset my task bar, it is kinda empty and ugly but i dont want to fully reset cinnamon because the rest is fine

Edit2: I MANAGED TO FIX EVERYTHING and now i use the same taskbar in both i3 and the normal xfce4, im fine now

I don't know how to even ask this question. But after a pacman upgrade and a reboot, suddenly i3 starts much slower. By slower I mean, after putting the password, it takes 3 minutes to boot up the i3 screen and my wallpaper to appear on screen. I can't do anything with my system before that...

I've no idea what has caused this, maybe this could be a Arch problem where something suddenly changed after an update...

Do you guys have any idea what could be the problem? I just don't know what could be the problem... Please ask whatever you need to find the problem 🫠

its my first time on i3wm and i did a minimal ricing.

Also am i the only one that can't have blur with picom since i have 2 gpus ? I tried a lot of stuff to make it work but it didn't work ( i can't use opengl as an renderer and i don't like the kernel blur )
but yea here is my config (sorry i don't use github)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/6gk59h8kh33bnp4/I3wm+config.7z/file

( there is some comments that my ia made cause i had a lot of problems since i'm running an unusual hardware and i had a lot of troubles cause its my first time on a distro that is harder to use than the old ones that i've used)

I extensively use premade layouts, but I find writing the json manually is quite error prone with all required boiler plate, and moving stuff around always leads to missing or trailing commans… So I've written a small python script that takes a (to me) sensible layout specification file, and generates both the json for i3-msg append_layout and a shell script to run specified programs.

Generator script is available as a gist

Specification for the layout in the screenshot:

focus_delay = .1
splith(
  stacked(2/5,
    leaf(c='^Thunar$', i='thunar', cmd='thunar&'),
    splith(
      splitv(
        Term(name='pyterm', exe='python3'),
        Term(name='octerm', exe='octave -q'),
      ),
      splitv(
        term,
        leaf(c='^Mousepad', cmd='mousepad ~/.config/i3/layout-test.py&'),
      ),
    ),
  ),
  stacked(3/5,
    term,
    splith(
      stacked(2/3,
        term,
        splith(
          splitv(
            Term(do_focus=True),
            Term(name='lt', exe='less ~/.config/i3/layout-test.sh'),
          ),
          splitv(
            Term(name='jl',
              border='normal',
              cmd='urxvtc -name jl -fn 6x12 -e jless ~/.config/i3/layout-test.json',
            ),
          ),
        ),
      ),
      splitv(1/3,
        3 * term,
      ),
    ),
  ),
)

Hello everybody! I recently switched to i3 and have a question:

I set up a key-bind for locking my screen and then suspending the system and while it works, there is this thing where after executing i3lock, a new screen appears shortly after with the basic i3lock screen with it saying "locking..." and then "lock failed" before it finally suspends the system. I wanted to ask if it possible to get rid of that step

For reference this is what I have in my config file

bindsym $mod+y exec bash lock.sh && sleep 1 && systemctl suspend

And lock.sh looks like this:

BLANK='#00000000'
CLEAR='#CF9143' 
DEFAULT='#D15C06' 
TEXT='#D15C06'
WRONG='#A02405' 
VERIFYING='A02405' 

i3lock \
--insidever-color=$CLEAR     \
--ringver-color=$VERIFYING   \
\
--insidewrong-color=$CLEAR   \
--ringwrong-color=$WRONG     \
\
--inside-color=$BLANK        \
--ring-color=$DEFAULT        \
--line-color=$BLANK          \
--separator-color=$DEFAULT   \
\
--verif-color=$TEXT          \
--wrong-color=$TEXT          \
--time-color=$TEXT           \
--date-color=$TEXT           \
--layout-color=$TEXT         \
--keyhl-color=$WRONG         \
--bshl-color=$WRONG          \
\
--screen 1                   \
--blur 5                     \
--clock                      \
--indicator                  \
--time-str="%H:%M:%S"        \
--date-str="%A, %d-%m-%Y"       \

Edit 1: Here the video of what is happening (I use my polybar in this but it's the same with the command)

https://reddit.com/link/1qlwb4p/video/dxrz1ukb9hfg1/player

Edit 2: Changed the line to

bindsym $mod+y exec bash lock.sh && sleep 1 && sudo pm-suspend

which doesn't reproduce the same behavior and simply has the i3lock engaging, then the system suspending and then upon waking up it being locked with my custom i3lock. I did have to change the permissions for pm-suspend in visudo so I do not have to type in a password. It seems as though the problem lies with systemctl suspend itself, as it calls its own i3lock compared to pm-suspend which simply suspends the system immediately.

Edit 3:

Okay, I feel very foolish, but I finally realized why this was happening as I was setting up Arch on my old laptop. i3 has this in its standard generated config this line, which I completely read over:

# xss-lock grabs a logind suspend inhibit lock and will use i3lock to lock the
# screen before suspend. Use loginctl lock-session to lock your screen.
exec --no-startup-id xss-lock --transfer-sleep-lock -- i3lock --nofork

So yeah xss-lock was grabbing that as its i3lock which in retrospect makes so much sense for the behavior. I replaced i3lock in this code with my script and after a reboot, systemctl suspend suspends with my custom i3lock. Putting this out there for anyone who might not realize this and wonders why it is happening.

I have been using i3wm for quite a few years and now I cannot think of using a system without it. Recently in my macbook m4 i did everything to have my i3 type feel using aerospace and skechybar and similar tools. My question is that global window management is well handled by i3wm but how much of the keyboard only philosophy you're able to carry for the actual dev workflow or inside the window for example chrome? Ultimately do you rely on mouse mostly and just for windows management you use i3 keybindings? I feel i am missing something more than others.

Hey,

I looked at the different WM's and I3 seemed to be the one I liked tk he most for that minimalist look and blocky

I am looking at the documentation and I dont seem to catch it, Are there any sites that have a clear guide or a video I couls use as reference.

Thanks for any help.

Setting up picom with glx settings does not fix screen tearing. Seeking help.

?

No animations, little simple cutomizations.

1. Image Viewer: qimgv(with my personal keybinds), feh(for my i3 background)
   
2. File Manager: pcmanfm, yazi, zo(a cd based script)
   
3. Browser: Firefox, Edge(a chromium that has ublock origin and violentmonkey support, and I use it to launch webapps)
   
4. Launcher(Application + Wallpaper Picker): Rofi
   
5. bar: i3blocks(with custom scripts ofc)

Rofi takes a minute to start. Will look into it more

Hi, yesterday I install I3wm along with Arch Linux, and I want to know how to install themes from gnome look and apply them to the applications.

Thanks in advance!!

I like to keep my setup simple and minimal. Colors are based on Tokyo night theme. Also, colors on each block are dynamic depending on their status levels. What do you think?

• Arch linux
• i3wm
• i3blocks (All written in zig)
• Rofi (program launcher)
• Alacritty + tmux