i3

i3 is a tiling Window Manager. If you have ever using tmux or screen it is similar except panes can contain not just terminals but GUI applications.

To start i3, when using Ubuntu, on the login screen click the small circular icon next to the login box and change it to i3, then login as normal.

The default keybinding have been changed. In particular:

• the modifier is the super key
• vim-like bindings super+{h,j,k,l} are used to manage windows.
• super+p will take a screenshot of a region, upload it to Dropbox and put the public URL in the clipboard
• mac-like cut/copy/paste with super+{x,c,v} (ctrl also works)
• choose the window orientation with super+{v,b}.

To change the keyboard layout grep for setxkbmap in i3_config.