I3 Window Manager

This is a tiling window manager that works with less mouse actions and that uses the space better.

custom keybindings

volume

One problem was that the keybindings from Mate are overridden, in particular the volume up-down which I had bound to Alt-+ and Alt-i. Actually the keys with the signs on it : - (i key) and + (= key).

To fix that use these lines in ~/.config/i3/config :

# comment the original bindings (for multimedia keys not present on 'normal' keyboards)
# bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +10% && $refresh_i3status
# bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec --no-startup-id pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -10% && $refresh_i3status
bindsym $mod+equal exec --no-startup-id pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +10% && $refresh_i3status
bindsym $mod+minus exec --no-startup-id pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -10% && $refresh_i3status

This doe not reinstate the popup showing the volume but i can live with that.

default terminal

Alt-Enter will open a terminal, which i don't use because of the extra bar and because xterms are more easily coloured. As i do not want to overwrite the terminal key, i choose to use Alt-x which was not used for anything yet.

# keep this one, add second one :
bindsym $mod+Return exec i3-sensible-terminal
bindsym $mod+x exec /home/kees/bin/x