i3

improved tiling wm

Distribution

i3 is currently distributed in the following operating systems/distributions:

Debian GNU/Linux
Arch Linux, maintained by Atsutane
Gentoo Linux (in sunrise), maintained by mimi_vx / Moredread
See also: i3-9999.ebuild
FreeBSD (x11-wm/i3), maintained by dhn
NetBSD (wip/i3 in pkgsrc-wip)
OpenBSD, maintained by David Coppa
Fedora, RHEL, CentOS (in EPEL), maintained by cassmodiah
Ubuntu Linux (in karmic/universe)
Because Ubuntu packages are always outdated, you can also install up-to-date third-party i3 packages for Ubuntu by adding the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list and using apt-get install i3 afterwards:
```
    deb http://debian.sur5r.net/i3/ karmic universe
    
```
Or, if you are running lucid:
```
    deb http://debian.sur5r.net/i3/ lucid universe
    
```

Downloads

The current stable version is 3.ε-bf3 (transcribed 3.e-bf3 because many systems still can’t handle UTF-8 in version numbers).

IMPORTANT: If you use the nVidia binary driver (which does not support XRandR at the moment), read this document for an explanation and how to enable the work-around!

i3-3.e-bf3.tar.bz2 (GPG signature), Version 3.ε-bf3, 353 KiB, 2011-05-08, release notes
i3-3.e-bf2.tar.bz2 (GPG signature), Version 3.ε-bf2, 285 KiB, 2011-01-19, release notes
i3-3.e-bf1.tar.bz2 (GPG signature), Version 3.ε-bf1, 285 KiB, 2010-06-09, release notes
i3-3.e.tar.bz2 (GPG signature), Version 3.ε, 271 KiB, 2010-03-30, release notes
i3-3.d-bf1.tar.bz2 (GPG signature), Version 3.δ-bf1, 153 KiB, 2009-12-21, release notes
i3-3.d.tar.bz2 (GPG signature), Version 3.δ, 153 KiB, 2009-11-09, release notes
i3-3.c.tar.bz2 (GPG signature), Version 3.γ, 107 KiB, 2009-08-19, release notes
i3-3.b.tar.bz2 (GPG signature), Version 3.β, 96 KiB, 2009-06-26, release notes
i3-3.a-bf2.tar.bz2 (GPG signature), Version 3.α-bf2, 65 KiB, 2009-05-03, hotfix for a problem with -bf1
i3-3.a-bf1.tar.bz2 (GPG signature), Version 3.α-bf1, 65 KiB, 2009-05-03, release notes
i3-3.a.tar.bz2 (GPG signature), Version 3.α, 50 KiB, 2009-03-15

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Development version

Use git to follow the latest changes:

  $ git clone git://code.stapelberg.de/i3

If you prefer to download a tarball, or if you cannot use git for whatever reason, you may download the current master branch from http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3/snapshot/i3-master.tar.bz2

Announce mailing list

If you want to be notified when a new version of i3 is released, please subscribe to the announce mailing list by sending a mail to i3-announce-subscribe@i3.zekjur.net