dotfiles vs i3

dotfiles

By Jeremie1001

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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dotfiles		i3
	Project
3	Mentions	74
28	Stars	6,017
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	6.3
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Lua	Language	C
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-26.

What awesome wm "thing" do you think needs "noob friendly" documentation the most?
4 projects | /r/awesomewm | 26 Jan 2022

I would also recommend read through other ppls configurations on GitHub like Manilarome, JavaCafe or even mine which I think are pretty decent
Awesome Arch Dracula
2 projects | /r/unixporn | 17 Feb 2021

Dotfiles (awesome dotfiles)
[awesome] Arch Dracula
2 projects | /r/unixporn | 3 Feb 2021

Thanks man, and ya took some figuring out, but i did the majority over the summer during quarantine after i got laid off for a bit (lol) and finished it during christmas break. Nothing better to do than jump and using others configs to learn tho imo. Here is the json

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.

help i3/i3-gaps packages broken (i think)
1 project | /r/archlinux | 10 Sep 2023
i3-gaps
2 projects | /r/i3wm | 11 Jan 2023

why would you get a version that, by the author, has been archived: https://github.com/Airblader/i3
The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3
1 project | /r/blend5leaf | 8 Jan 2023

1 project | /r/blend5leaf | 8 Jan 2023

1 project | /r/Boiling_Steam | 8 Jan 2023

1 project | /r/blend5leaf | 7 Jan 2023

1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 7 Jan 2023

1 project | /r/hackernews | 7 Jan 2023

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 7 Jan 2023

10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2023

What are some alternatives?

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

the-glorious-dotfiles - A glorified personal dot files

i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)

dracula-theme - 🧛🏻‍♂️ One theme. All platforms.

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

dotfiles - My desktop and WSL configuration files

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

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

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

Ulauncher - Feature rich application Launcher for Linux

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

Hypr - Hypr is a tiling window manager written in modern C++.

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor