SIGs/i3/Brainstorm

This page is a brainstorming placeholder for the i3 SIG. This includes long-term goals, ideas, or other things we are thinking about as a SIG.

Package Group

One of the first goals for this SIG is to create an official Package Group that is a base installation for an i3wm workstation. Ideas for packages are below.

i3-minimal

i3 (core)

• i3
• i3lock
• i3status
• dunst (notifications)
• lightdm-gtk (display manager)
• Group: @base-x
• st (simple terminal)

i3-extended

i3 (core)

Menu

• dmenu
• rofi
• morc

Networking

• nm-applet

Audio

• pavucontrol / pavucontrol-qt

Power management

• powertop

Other

• ARandR
• conky
• i3status-rs
• font-awesome
• alacritty (needs to be packaged)
• tmux
• xarchiver