cakenes / i3-gaps-kde

A better tiling and dynamic window manager (with KDE patches)

i3-gaps-kde

What is i3-gaps?

i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows (see below for a complete list).

Purpose of this repo

Vanilla i3 doesn't play that well with KDE/Plasma, and i love KDE, that's why i'm maintaining this repo.

Up until now i just added code and haven't modified vanilla i3 code. I will try to stick to this in the future ensuring simple merges.

Branches

• gaps-kde: that's what you want if you want to use i3-gaps with KDE/Plasma

I won't maintain an up-to-date next branch with KDE/Plasma patches included, if you need that, feel free to clone :)

Features

• Proper handling of KDE/Plasma desktop (_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP)
• Proper handling of KDE/Plasma popups and floating panels (mostly widget stuff) (_NET_WM_STATE_STAYS_ON_TOP)

i3-config

No special settings needed.

If you want kmix, kcalc and those other small tools floating, those are settings you still have to do with your i3 config.

You can check https://github.com/sLite/i3-config for an example config and instructions to set up KDE integration.

Credits

• Paul Du for active maintenance of i3's fork for kde.
• sLite for the older versions of i3's fork for kde.
• Michael Stapelberg for this awesome project, and all the contributors for their work.
• Marius Muja for his KDE fixes on earlier versions of i3. They were a gamechanger, and without them i probably would have swiched back to KWM and would be unhappy for the rest of my life ;) I owe you some beers! I basically just ported his patches to 4.8 and left out what isn't necessary anymore.