Key Bindings Cheatsheet for i3 Window Manager

What is a Window Manager?

A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface.

How many Types of Window Managers are there?

Window Managers can be divided into 3 to 4 categories as below:

1. Compositing window managers
2. Stacking window managers
3. Tiling window manager
4. Dynamic window manager

The one we are interested in is the Tiling Window Manager

Tiling Window Manager

Tiling window managers paint all windows on-screen by placing them side by side or above and below each other so that no window ever covers another.

i3 Shortcuts Cheat Sheet by ishyesh

Window Navigation

1. 🐧 + j - Left
2. 🐧 + k - Down
3. 🐧 + l - Up
4. 🐧 + ; - Right

Layout

1. 🐧 + S - Stacking
2. 🐧 + W - Tabbed
3. 🐧 + O - Toggle Split
4. 🐧 + E - Default
5. 🐧 + Shift + Space - Floating Toggle
6. 🐧 + Space - Focus Floating
7. 🐧 + A - Focus Parent
8. 🐧 + D - Focus Child
9. 🐧 + F - Fullscreen

Splitting

1. 🐧 + H - Horizontal
2. 🐧 + V - Vertical

Sizing

1. 🐧 + Shift + ➡️ - Grow Width
2. 🐧 + Shift + ⬅️ - Shrink Width
3. 🐧 + Shift + ⬆️ - Grow Height
4. 🐧 + Shift + ⬇️ - Shrink Height
5. 🐧 + R - Resize Mode

i3 Related

1. 🐧 + Shift + Q - Kill Window
2. 🐧 + Return - Terminator
3. 🐧 + D - dmenu
4. 🐧 + Shift + C - Reload
5. 🐧 + Shift + R - Restart
6. 🐧 + Shift + E - Exit