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?
Another 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.
Since version 4.3, we do that, too: http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOT...
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.
I 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.
Presumably because you can't then have 100% coverage across the entire workspace without leaving gaps, or some other reason?
Asked: 2013-06-13 13:44:12 +0000
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Last updated: Jun 16 '13
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