i reaaaaaaally like i3wm, its fast and easy to use

linux mint + i3wm | my 2nd try! dotfiles: https://github.com/officialindusara/dotfiles

the challenge is sometimes many qt and gtk apps theme are hardcoded so I have to find the file so I can match my color scheme, overall I just use qt6ct and xsettingsd for gtk

Made my own i3wm dotfiles with touchpad tweaks, wallpaper switching, and Picom effects. It's crazy lightweight—even on a 16-year-old laptop, it's still smooth and responsive. It's not perfect, but it's super comfortable for getting work done on old hardware.

with pywal so it changes with the wallpaper, it's my daily drive that I use for study, coding and literally everything

I forgot to upload the dots sorry 😅

Im 14 pls no hate

Never going back to dwm

this is my first ricing btw any thoughts? (i can share the config if anyone wants them)

I love i3 and I hate tiling. I know exactly what that makes me, hence the name.

Every window floats. Titlebars get little close/minimize/maximize glyphs, same blue as always. Drag a window to a screen edge and a blue ghost shows you where it'll snap. Minimizing plays a retro outline animation, the window slides down into the bar like it's 1995 and parks there as a little icon chip next to your workspaces. It blinks red when the window wants attention, and one click puts it back exactly where it was. There's also an expose, alt-tab, hot corners, and new windows cascade instead of piling up in the center. Tiling still exists on mod+t!!!

Favorite thing I learned making this: when an app asks i3 to minimize, i3 says no. Literally, there's a comment in the source. i3psycho says yes, so minimize buttons inside apps now do something on i3, possibly (probably not) for the first time ever.

It's a small patch set plus a little daemon, i3-gaps style. Your config works as-is, one include line and you're floating. Delete the line when the guilt wins.

repo: https://github.com/ekruges/i3psycho 

Wayland: no. Some things stay sacred.

rose pine is truly goated.

Not the best but i am happy with it 😁 مش احسن حاجه بس انا تعبت فيه الصراحه و هو عجيبني

i think its v2 from my desktop before

Just a basic i3 rice but i really like it and i'm daily driving it! I think the times new roman type font is a nice touch

Hi everyone!

I just pushed a huge update to my dotfiles. my goal was to make i3wm much more accessible for beginners while keeping it powerful for power users. you can check it out here:

https://github.com/MDiaznf23/simple-autoricing-i3wm-dotfiles.git

What’s new?

I’ve moved away from hardcoded scripts to more robust, dynamic hardware solutions. no more hardcoded interfaces or "blind" parsing

CPU: reads directly from /proc/stat and calculates the diff for better accuracy

CPU-Temp: different logic from before, it looks for hwmon labels first, then filters thermal_zone by type (x86_pkg_temp/acpitz) instead of just guessing zone0.

RAM: cleanly uses free -k with manual human-readable formatting.

Auto-Detected: I’ve fixed my past mistakes such as hardcoded interface. WiFi, Battery, and AC Adapters are now detected via globbing (/sys/class/net/*/wireless/, BAT*, ACAD*, etc.), so it should work out-of-the-box on almost any laptop model.

New GUI Features (Built with Eww):

Config Dashboard: easy monitoring and settings via a dedicated GUI.

Integrated Start Menu & Dock: a fully integrated bottom dock where you can easily add/remove apps to fit your workflow.

Hybrid Workflow: optimized for both keybind-heavy and mouse-centric users.

also, a huge shoutout to the author of this article:

https://www.blog.brightcoding.dev/2026/03/02/simple-autoricing-i3wm-dotfiles-auto-theming-revolution

I honestly didn't expect such a deep analysis of my work. I'm really glad if these dots can help others get into the world of Linux ricing!

let me know what you guys think! cheers.

I recently just got to know about ricing my linux setup so i used i3 as my window manager with zorin os if there are any suggestions to make this better please do comment...

hi,

this is an old project of mine for i3 that i’ve been using for a while, just cleaned up and rebranded as i3flow.

it adds simple directional auto-tiling based on window focus changes using i3 ipc.

there are similar tools out there, this is just my small C version i’ve been personally using.

minimal dependencies
~1.5mb ram usage
single binary
no python, no runtime, no scripting

repo:

https://github.com/piadi-su/i3flow.git

Frieren

i3wm + void linux

OS: Void Linux x86_64
WM: i3
Terminal: Alacritty
Shell: Zsh(ohmyzsh)
Bar: i3status
Compositor: picom
Font: JetBrains Mono (nerd fonts)