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i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:44:00 +0000size hints in i3https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/Awesome wm has a cool feature, size hints that expands terminal emulators not to whole screen or split size but to needed size for the font used. It leaves a little space where the background can be seen and it looks better in my opinion, any idea how to use it in i3?Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:44:12 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/Answer by ThomasAdam for Awesome wm has a cool feature, size hints that expands terminal emulators not to whole screen or split size but to needed size for the font used. It leaves a little space where the background can be seen and it looks better in my opinion, any idea how to use it in i3? https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/?answer=2031#post-id-2031Another potential solution to this (which won't be accepted by i3 most likely), is windows respect size hints by centering the window relative to each other and the size hints they set; the effect of this would be to have tiny gaps between all the windows.Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:43:52 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/?answer=2031#post-id-2031Answer by Michael for Awesome wm has a cool feature, size hints that expands terminal emulators not to whole screen or split size but to needed size for the font used. It leaves a little space where the background can be seen and it looks better in my opinion, any idea how to use it in i3? https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/?answer=2012#post-id-2012Since version 4.3, we do that, too: http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-4.3.txt So, upgrade :) [edit] As others have pointed out, your question was about having gaps between windows. This is not supported in i3 and won’t be.Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:33:08 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/?answer=2012#post-id-2012Comment by ThomasAdam for Since version 4.3, we do that, too: <a href="http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-4.3.txt">http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOT...</a> So, upgrade :) [edit] As others have pointed out, your question was about having gaps between windows. This is not supported in i3 and won’t be. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/?comment=2025#comment-2025I personally think size-hints are an important thing to support. It's all very well saying "but terminals do a better job of this if there's transparency therefore we don't need to support it", but the window *provided* size hints for a reason---we should be honouring that.Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:23:48 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/?comment=2025#comment-2025Comment by ThomasAdam for Since version 4.3, we do that, too: <a href="http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-4.3.txt">http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOT...</a> So, upgrade :) [edit] As others have pointed out, your question was about having gaps between windows. This is not supported in i3 and won’t be. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/?comment=2034#comment-2034Presumably because you can't then have 100% coverage across the entire workspace without leaving gaps, or some other reason?Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:44:00 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/?comment=2034#comment-2034Comment by Michael for Since version 4.3, we do that, too: <a href="http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-4.3.txt">http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOT...</a> So, upgrade :) [edit] As others have pointed out, your question was about having gaps between windows. This is not supported in i3 and won’t be. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/?comment=2033#comment-2033ThomasAdam: No we shouldn’t support this particular hint which the commit is about. Handling it in i3 really makes things worse.Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:42:52 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/?comment=2033#comment-2033Comment by Marko for Since version 4.3, we do that, too: <a href="http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-4.3.txt">http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOT...</a> So, upgrade :) [edit] As others have pointed out, your question was about having gaps between windows. This is not supported in i3 and won’t be. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/?comment=2014#comment-2014As i read here "Furthermore, we decided to entirely ignore resize increment size hints for tiling windows" i3 ignores size hints completle, i wanna have size hints so that there is a little space around urxvtThu, 13 Jun 2013 19:17:25 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2006/size-hints-in-i3/?comment=2014#comment-2014