Advanced
i3bar
The bar’s visibility can be toggled with super i . This can be useful when wanting to remove all distractions and devote 100% of the screen to one or more applications in your workspace. Another way of giving one application complete use of the screen is to press super f to cause the active application to enter full screen mode.
i3-wm Layout Mode
i3-wm offers a few different layout modes. super t can be used to toggle between tabbed, horizontal and vertical split modes.
Save and Restore Window Positions
i3-snapshot
is integrated into Regolith for saving and restoring window layouts in the same session. Pressing
super
,
will write the current window layout to a file in the /tmp
directory.
super
.
will restore that layout. i3-snapshot
is intended for use cases in which monitor changes may cause layouts to be randomized. It is not a replacement for i3-save-tree
as it uses window identifiers that do not survive across X sessions, nor does it offer a way of positioning application launches into specific layouts.
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