i3 VS i3-gaps

Compare i3 vs i3-gaps and see what are their differences.

i3

A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3. (by Airblader)
i3-gaps I3 I3wm X11 x11-wm Xorg Xcb

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i3-gaps

i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3) (by OstOgBajer)
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i3 i3-gaps
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6.3 0.0
over 1 year ago about 5 years ago
C C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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i3

Posts with mentions or reviews of i3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-11.

i3-gaps

Posts with mentions or reviews of i3-gaps. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing i3 and i3-gaps you can also consider the following projects:

nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more

bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

i3-gaps-wm - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features

Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

krohnkite - A dynamic tiling extension for KWin

polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.

komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉

Ulauncher - Feature rich application Launcher for Linux

i3-multimonitor-workspace - i3wm Multi-Monitor workspace

gruvbox-material-gtk - Gruvbox Material for GTK, Gnome, Cinnamon, XFCE, Unity, Plank and Icons

exwm - Emacs X Window Manager

i3 vs nerd-fonts i3-gaps vs bspwm i3 vs i3-gaps-wm i3-gaps vs Amethyst i3 vs kitty i3-gaps vs krohnkite i3 vs polybar-themes i3-gaps vs komorebi i3 vs Ulauncher i3-gaps vs i3-multimonitor-workspace i3 vs gruvbox-material-gtk i3-gaps vs exwm