Moving efficiently in the CLI

Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by conradk on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:01PM (#16243248)

I use i3wm and always feel left out of these kinds of tips, because i3wm uses Alt for all kinds of Window Management stuff. If I do Alt-F, my shell goes fullscreen, because i3wm is setup to do that.

Any tips for i3wm users that have these kinds of keybind conflicts ?

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by sevanteri on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:09PM (#16243298)

I use Super instead of Alt. When I changed to i3 I instantly knew that alt would conflict with everything in terminals.

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by procparam on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:06PM (#16243283)

I use the windows key for the i3 modifier, and leave alt alone. If your keyboard doesn't have a windows key, you can probably map left-alt to mod and leave right-alt alone. Or vice versa.

Basically, find a redundant key to use as your wm mod key.

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by herewulf on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:08PM (#16243293)

I don't use i3wm but I use XMonad. I set my (window manager) meta key to the "windows key". You can probably do the same thing. I can't live without alt-. in the shell!

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by dijit on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:08PM (#16243291)

I remapped my modifier to the <Super> (Mod4) key a long time ago. Although I also admit to not using the alt variants of this.

Alt is a common modifier for navigation though, things like qutebrowser use it to navigate tabs and such. It's worthwhile to switch and the "Windows" key hasn't conflicted with anything for me. In my opinion it's a saner default than the current.

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by ilammy on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:13PM (#16243333)

I've rebound the modifier key to the Windows key (Mod4) from the default Alt (Mod1).

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by racingmars on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:05PM (#16243277)

I'm not sure if it's an option in your setup, but this is why I use the "Windows" key on my keyboard as my i3 modifier. The Alt key then remains available for applications.

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by bitwize on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:18PM (#16243363)

Yeah -- set your i3wm command modifier to Super (Windows key).

I've been using i3wm for years with zero conflict with Emacs itself, let alone the shell's Emacs-like keybindings.

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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by awll on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:03PM (#16243262)

Why don’t you use the windows key(Mod4) for i3?

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