{"id":1934,"date":"2020-06-27T10:19:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T10:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2020-06-27T10:19:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T10:19:13","slug":"keyboard-shortcuts-for-the-i3-window-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/2020\/06\/27\/keyboard-shortcuts-for-the-i3-window-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyboard shortcuts for the i3 window manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you log in for the first time you&#8217;ll be asked to choose a modifier key (I chose ALT). The keyboard shortcuts below use <code>$mod<\/code> to refer to that modifier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Open a terminal window &#8211; <code>$mod + Enter<\/code><\/li><li>Open a different application &#8211; <code>$mod + d<\/code> then type the application name (eg <code>firefox<\/code>)<\/li><li>Open (or go to) a second desktop &#8211; <code>$mod + 2<\/code><\/li><li>Send the focused application to that desktop &#8211; <code>$mod + Shift + 2<\/code><\/li><li>Split a container vertically &#8211; <code>$mod + v<\/code><\/li><li>Split a container horizontally &#8211; <code>$mod + h<\/code><\/li><li>Move between containers &#8211; <code>$mod + arrow keys<\/code><\/li><li>Switch to a tabbed layout &#8211; <code>$mod + w<\/code><\/li><li>Switch to a stacked layout &#8211; <code>$mod + s<\/code><\/li><li>Close a window &#8211; <code>$mod + Shift + q<\/code><\/li><li>Exit i3 &#8211; <code>$mod + Shift + e<\/code><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you log in for the first time you&#8217;ll be asked to choose a modifier key (I chose ALT). The keyboard shortcuts below use $mod to refer to that modifier. Open a terminal window &#8211; $mod + Enter Open a different application &#8211; $mod + d then type the application name (eg firefox) Open (or &#8230; <a title=\"Keyboard shortcuts for the i3 window manager\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/2020\/06\/27\/keyboard-shortcuts-for-the-i3-window-manager\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Keyboard shortcuts for the i3 window manager\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","category-linux","category-ubuntu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}