You should see a little tiny 1 in the bottom left corner, which is the first virtual desktop, and the system status bar along the bottom right. Now you should be gazing upon a mostly blank screen.
(Liberate your keyboard! Buy Tux keyboard stickers!)
This is really the Super_L key, but on many keyboards it bears the Windows logo. If you choose the Alt key you’re going to conflict with a lot of application keybindings and commands, so choose Win. Then choose your mod (modifier) key, either the Win or Alt key. First you must decide if you want the wizard to create a ~/i3/config file. On its first run it walks you through a simple configuration wizard. When you log back in change your session to i3. They’re not perfectly tiled because I rearranged them a bit: i3 is not dogmatic about tiling geometry and lets you have it your way. In Figure 1 you can see that I have two virtual desktops, the status bar, and three windows arranged nicely. The full-meal deal is a little over 2 megabytes, so you might as well go for it. The i3 metapackage includes everything except i3-wm-dbg.
On Debian/Ubuntu you have the i3 metapackage, and the individual i3-wm (window manager), i3-wm-dbg (debugging symbols), i3lock (screenlocker), and i3status (system status bar) packages. You can download source tarballs or snag the latest code from the i3 git repository, but the easiest method is to install it from your distro repositories. You can do almost everything from the keyboard, or mix up keyboard and mouse. It supports tiling, stacking, tabs, virtual desktops, and multiple monitors. The i3 tiling window manager is a nice modern tiling window manager for GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems. I know, Windows 3.1 wasn’t very good for much actual work, but it did stacking and tiling windows rather nicely. I’ve been a fan of tiling window managers ever since Windows 3.1.
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