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{\huge i3}\\
{\large improved tiling window manager}\\
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Michael Stapelberg\\
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2012-01-25\\
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"Interesting, what is this?"

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vs.

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"What?! \textbf{Another} window manager?"
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\begin{frame}{}
    % talk about the difference between a desktop environment and a window manager:
    % a desktop environment (like GNOME, KDE, Xfce) is a collection of
    % programs, libraries (including a graphical toolkit) and configuration.
    % it usually aims for a coherent look and feel and comes with a number of
    % tools (g*, like gedit, geeqie, …)
    % One of the programs of a DE is a window manager.
    \begin{figure}
    \includegraphics[width=0.97\textwidth]{Ubuntu_Linux_Jaunty_screenshot.png}
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% compare this to a screenshot of i3:
% notice the little amount of toolbars.
% notice the lack of fancy window decorations
% notice the absence of a desktop.
% instead, you get to use the full screen.
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    % source: jrd in #i3
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\mslide{i3: history and features}{
    \item started from scratch in february 2009
    \item successor* to wmii, which we couldn’t hack
    \item clean, readable, documented code. and documentation
    \item proper multi-monitor support, utf-8 clean
    \item fast and lightweight, aimed at power users
}

% live demo here, just like at FrOSCon
% include: the docs, with the keyboard layout
% include: the configuration file

\mslide{Inter-process communication}{
    \item UNIX socket, JSON for serialization
    \item i3-msg (C), AnyEvent::I3 (Perl), i3-ipc (Ruby), i3ipc (Python)
    \item send any command, like \texttt{floating enable}
    \item receive events (like focus change)
    \item access the layout tree (!)
}

% demo: change a workspace
% demo: testsuite

\mslide{Example workflows}{
    \item Urgency hint
    \item Scratchpad
    \item Web development (browser, editor, syslog)
    \item Coding (C): two editors (code, test), quickly opening docs
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\mslide{i3 in numbers}{
    \item 3149 commits by 39 different people
    \item > 600 tickets (about 60 open)
    \item about 10.000 SLOC (mostly C, a bit of Perl)
    \item testsuite: > 1000 test instructions in 96 files
    \item conservative guess of > 1000 users
}

\mslide{Thanks for your attention}{
    \item See \url{http://www.i3wm.org/} for everything
    \item Ubuntu: upgrade to our repository: \url{http://i3wm.org/docs/repositories.html}
    \item Debian: upgrade to the version in Debian testing
    \item Any questions?
    \item (pictures Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported)
}

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