Summary

This website emphasizes a deliberate and transparent approach to window management. It argues that a window manager’s function should be fully understood by examining its source code, revealing the entire process. Consequently, new features are only added if they significantly benefit the system and don’t introduce unnecessary complexity. The site promotes using Inter-Process Communication (IPC) for feature implementation whenever feasible.

Title

i3 — i3: improved tiling X11 window manager

Description

i3 is a tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several improvements over wmii

Keywords

code, features, window, source, implement, will, users, complexity, docs, bugs, good, clean, version, manager, following, goals, well

NS Lookup

A 81.6.44.38

Dates

Created 2026-03-09

Updated 2026-03-09

Summarized 2026-03-13