CAN I3WM LOOK BEAUTIFUL
to many of linux users want to try hyprland but there GPUs doesn't support it so they use another WMs like i3WM (that what i'll focus on it)
when you install it you will see that hyprland have more cool features like autotiling and you will be upset but i want to tell that if rice your i3wm with the right way you will get something like this or even better
and i will list here some programs that you will need
picom:
picom is a lightweight x11 compositor you can add very good visual effects like transparency, shadows, fading, blur, rounded corners, and VSync
you can install it with pacman(if you using archlinux or distros based on it)
sudo pacman -S picom
then paste this to your i3 config (usually in ~/.config/i3/config.conf)
exec_always picom
or this if glx gives errors
exec_always picom --backend Xrender
and you can edit you picom config file as you want or steal someone config (:]
polybar:
i3statues looks very bad polybar is a panal (i don't have any good definition for it) but if you mix it with picom to make it transparent and add rounded edges it well look peferct and you can edit it too more i suggest to watch tutorials for all one of the tools to know how to use it because i am very lazy to explain how }:])
autotiling:
this is my best one this adds autotiling feature to i3wm and it looks perfect
it's too easy to install just make sure you have python-i3ipc installed you can download it with pacman this is how to downlaod and run autotiling git clone https://github.com/nwg-piotr/autotiling.git cd autotiling cd autotiling python3 main.py
it works very fine
that's all thing and thank you for reading