Unlike the conventional desktop environment, a tiling manager provides just sufficient functionality to arrange windows on your screen in an easy and appealing manner suited for your workflow.

With low resource utilization, it makes up for a fast tiling Windows manager and leaves your system with plenty of RAM and CPU for other applications.

Using external tools, you can enhance the appearance by selecting the background image, adjusting the transparency and window fading effect, and enabling desktop notifications.

You can seamlessly group Windows to suit your workflow, which enhances your productivity.

Use the arrow up or down keys to select your preferred modifier key.

There isnt much to do with the default i3 window, it saves as a blank screen with a status bar at the very bottom of the screen.

Obviously, the workspace looks so cramped with multiple tiled windows and makes you feel overwhelmed.

This can be achieved by pressing the mod Shift Space combination.

It displays information such as the available disk space, IP address bandwidth rate, Battery level, date, and time.

You can change the colors of workspaces, change the layout of windows, as well as resize windows.

The aim of this guide was to give you a decent introduction to the i3 tiling manager and the basic functionalities to get you started.

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And of course, it is open-source and can be easily be extended adapted for different scenarios.

Currently what I do with Gnome is set to keyboard shortcuts and use the jump app to switch using shortcuts, it works flawlessly mostly, but I am interested in i3wm.

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