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Dian Fay

I use i3-gaps. It's a fork because i3 is all about maximizing usage of screen real estate so adding blank space between windows flies in the face of that goal, but the gaps add a lot of visual clarity.

Another interesting project is sway, a drop-in i3 replacement with a Wayland compositor. Unfortunately they don't plan to reproduce the layout save/load functionality of i3 so it'd be a bit difficult for me to make the switch.

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Josh C

Gaps is what sells it for me. That little bit of visual breakup makes it just feel less cluttered

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Víctor Adrián

I used to be an Ubuntu user and used plain i3, nowadays I've moved to Manjaro i3 Community Edition and it comes with all these goodies:

  1. i3-gaps
  2. i3-wm
  3. i3blocks
  4. i3lock
  5. i3status
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Dian Fay

I switched from i3blocks to polybar a little while back. I use Arch so I have to put everything together myself :D

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Víctor Adrián

I bet that was lots of fun, I envy you. :)

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Ben Sinclair

I'd not heard of i3-gaps before and have started using it (as of this weekend) and think it's pretty nice, especially with smart_gaps and smart_borders so everything doesn't look too "framey".