#Avoid tiling popups, dropdown windows from plasmaįor_window floating enable #Try to kill the wallpaper set by Plasma (it takes up the entire workspaceįor_window kill floating enable border none In the end i've added the fallowing to my config file: #_ Plasma Integration BEGIN _ The configuration with KDE is the less bugy in my case and the only one where the cation keys (volium and brightness control) works properly.Īnd here is an other one: i've used the methon on the second link and i've added some of the commands that I've took on the firs link, to my i3 config file. I've found a way to make i3 work with KDE plasma, xfce, and lxde.

a temporarily painful move but ultimately a worthwhile one (especially watching other people trying to type). Though my productivity did take a while to recover after changing to colemak. Time taken for web-search, mods and the script wasn't half an hour. # backlight controlīindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec sh ~/.config/i3/backlight.sh -inc 20īindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown exec sh ~/.config/i3/backlight.sh -dec 20Īnd the script does the heavy lifting #!/bin/bashįile='/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-eDP-1/intel_backlight/brightness' The solution was a web search away over here. I have been using i3 for about 2 weeks now and had to deal with the specific issue re brightness. That said you can roll just about any command you like and bind it to any key you want. The basic stuff you are looking for is basic to a DE, but not to a WM, so if you want all of that out of the box then stick to a DE.

Windows tiling window manager