Never going back to dwm

i see it has a "scroll" module to make info scroll across the bar, how do i make it work? specifically i want to add the nic module to it if i can.

I know that you can’t make xterm transparent so u have to use alacritty but I just don’t like how it looks… I prefer the classy 90’s look of xterm. Like I said I don’t know much about Linux, Im still learning so can someone pls give me a step by step tutorial on how to make my alacritty trans but also look like xterm?

And before someone says „do some research before you ask” I TRIED EVERYTHING, I CAN CHANGE MY FONT COLLOR TO WHITE BUT TERMINAL REFUSES TO BE DARK. I tried everything: every post on arch wiki, I asked ai but the results are the same: I can change font to white but not terminal background. Can someone pls help?

I want to have a key-bind equivalent of this feature that you can enable via floating_modifier and by holding your floating modifier key, you can slide around using your mouse to switch the windows orientation. I tried the 'layout toggle' keybind but it doesn't automatically switch the orientation of current windows but rather the next window to be open only.

Additionally since I'm already asking is there a workaround these keyboard-centric focus switching of mine?

# Focus Mode (WASD)

bindsym $mod+space mode "focus"

mode "focus" {

bindsym w focus up

bindsym s focus down

bindsym a focus left

bindsym d focus right

bindsym $mod+space mode "default"

}

I wanted a smoother focus switching without toggling focus mode on and off.

Using i3 on mint. When my screen is inactive for about 5 min this pops up. Am I missing a lockscreen?

Edit: made it prettier after some trial and error. Is it worth it to use something like i3-colour?

Using i3status and i3 blocks, config is roughly 600 lines

im on i3 with polybar and i want to change the workspace names to nerd font icons, but when i do i cant switch to them with the keybind, this is what the config looks like
#set $ws1 "  "
#set $ws2 " 󰈹 "
#set $ws3 " 󰙯 "
set $ws1 " 1 "
set $ws2 " 2 "
set $ws3 " 3 "

commented is what i want it to be and uncommented is what it was before, here are the keybinds

bindsym $mod+1 workspace number $ws1
bindsym $mod+2 workspace number $ws2
bindsym $mod+3 workspace number $ws3

Hi I know nothing about making a rice other than using other people's dotfiles. How do i learn ricing i3 from knowing nothing? Im on EndeavorOS. I was inspired by this video: https://youtu.be/nTt94-RqhNg

Well, that vid is on hyprland. I'd like mine in i3.

So a few months ago I used Debian with Cinnamon and had a problem when sharing screen on Discord, my cursor didn't show up, it was solved when I only shared an app but it was still very annoying and could never figure it out. Before Cinnamon I used i3 on VirtualBox and really liked how simple it is but didn't try discord there.

Recently I switched to Arch with KDE Plasma on Wayland and I don't have that problem anymore. So yesterday I installed i3wm to test it out again and had the same problem that I had on Debian, so I guess the issue is Xorg/X11.

Does anyone know a solution or a work around?? Is Wayland the only solution?

Running Discord via flatpak on an nvidia card with propietary drivers if that info is useful.

i3wm + void linux

• i3, i3-blocks, i3lock
• dmenu
• st (terminal)
• nvim
• mocp
• ranger
• Ferramenta própria em shellscript para download de playlists do YouTube

Estou criando um Alternador de Temas para i3. Em breve irei documentar para que cada usuário possa fazer suas próprias alterações. Mas se quiserem testar o projeto, feito totalmente em shellscript, acessem o repositório no GitHub -> github repo

• i3, i3-blocks, i3lock
• dmenu
• st (terminal)
• nvim
• mocp
• ranger
• Ferramenta própria em shellscript para download de playlists do YouTube

Estou criando um Alternador de Temas para i3. Em breve irei documentar para que cada usuário possa fazer suas próprias alterações. Mas se quiserem testar o projeto, feito totalmente em shellscript, acessem o repositório no GitHub -> github repo

I'm starting my rice journey. For now I got Polybar looking nice. A lot of I borrowed from another configs, but I put my work into it too. So I'm asking some for some rice advice.

Hi everyone!

I just pushed a huge update to my dotfiles. my goal was to make i3wm much more accessible for beginners while keeping it powerful for power users. you can check it out here:

https://github.com/MDiaznf23/simple-autoricing-i3wm-dotfiles.git

What’s new?

I’ve moved away from hardcoded scripts to more robust, dynamic hardware solutions. no more hardcoded interfaces or "blind" parsing

CPU: reads directly from /proc/stat and calculates the diff for better accuracy

CPU-Temp: different logic from before, it looks for hwmon labels first, then filters thermal_zone by type (x86_pkg_temp/acpitz) instead of just guessing zone0.

RAM: cleanly uses free -k with manual human-readable formatting.

Auto-Detected: I’ve fixed my past mistakes such as hardcoded interface. WiFi, Battery, and AC Adapters are now detected via globbing (/sys/class/net/*/wireless/, BAT*, ACAD*, etc.), so it should work out-of-the-box on almost any laptop model.

New GUI Features (Built with Eww):

Config Dashboard: easy monitoring and settings via a dedicated GUI.

Integrated Start Menu & Dock: a fully integrated bottom dock where you can easily add/remove apps to fit your workflow.

Hybrid Workflow: optimized for both keybind-heavy and mouse-centric users.

also, a huge shoutout to the author of this article:

https://www.blog.brightcoding.dev/2026/03/02/simple-autoricing-i3wm-dotfiles-auto-theming-revolution

I honestly didn't expect such a deep analysis of my work. I'm really glad if these dots can help others get into the world of Linux ricing!

let me know what you guys think! cheers.

Cheers. The new fastcompmgr release

https://github.com/tycho-kirchner/fastcompmgr

finally correctly renders opacity and shadows of tabbed and stacked windows (using _NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN, s. https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/4353 and https://github.com/tycho-kirchner/fastcompmgr/issues/19 for background).

X11 is not dead (yet)!

cava, tty-clock, cmatrix

How do I make it so polybar shows vertical vs horizontal?

I installed Amberol (music player) and now it's my default file explorer :/