There are several way you can do that, but I prefer the method below. Rather than echoing out every configuration line to the i3 config file, I concatenate all the options in a variable and add a newline. The shell script generates the i3 config file and it has conditions that determine what options to use based on the hostname.īelow is an example of such a shell script. I never touch the i3 configuration file manually, instead I change the options in the shell script and run that.

I use a shell script that contains all the different configuration options. However, there is a simple way you can get around that. One of the minor downsides of the i3 tiling manager is that its configuration file isn't scriptable and if you run it on multiple computers with different setups, such as a desktop with a dual monitor setup and a laptop, you have to maintain multiple configuration files. In this tutorial I'll show you a simple way you can manage the configuration of i3 across multiple computers with different setups on each computer. | about | faq | resources | contact | rss How you can manage the i3 window manager on multiple computers How you can manage the i3 window manager on multiple computers

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