i3-like configurations that work on : Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and MacOS

[Sean Reifschneider]

I'm using sway (i3 for wayland) on my desktop, which is the opposite of
Bob's laptop:
2x 30" 4k displays and the 15" laptop hidpi screen.  One thing I like about
it in the
"plenty of real estate" mode is I have it set up so I can "mark" and "jump"
to windows
like vi buffers.  So Win+m s to mark slack and then I can jump back with
Win+n s.
I also like full-screen (usually for looking at logs) and "make this window
full height"
(for looking at code).

I live most of my day in a bunch of terminals, a few browsers, and a
slack.  So it's
a pretty minimal set of apps, but it works good.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com> wrote:

> Brian Sturgill wrote:
> > I got fascinated with i3 and started looking around. It is possible to
> have
> > the exact same key bindings work on all four platforms.
>
> I use i3.  I used "awesome" window manager for a while, way too long,
> and it was not good.  I feel like I wasted a lot of time with awesome.
> Then switched to i3 and it was a huge wave of sanity.  I should have
> switched from awesome to i3 long before.  Bad judgement on my part
> that I did not.
>
> Tiling window managers are not for everyone.  But on my small laptop
> screen I really want to use the full screen and make the display as
> large as possible.  My eyes are not as young as they used to be when I
> was a twenty-something.
>
> > I made configurations for i3, sway (i3 for wayland), GlazeWM (Windows)
> and
> > AeroSpace (MacOS).
> >
> > You can find them here: briansturgill/i3-like-configs
> > <https://github.com/briansturgill/i3-like-configs>
> >
> > Directions for use and documentation of the keys are in the README.
>
> Cool stuff!
>
> Bob
>
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