

Users of non-Qwerty keyboard layouts may wish to circumvent the "configuration wizard" as described below. See Keyboard bindings to add new shortcuts. See the i3 reference card and Using i3 for the defaults. Super is the key usually represented on a keyboard as a Windows icon, or on an Apple keyboard as a Command key. This is Alt (Mod1) by default, with Super (Mod4) being a popular alternative.

In i3, commands are invoked with a modifier key, referred to as $mod. See the official documentation for more information, namely the i3 User's Guide. sktop enables logs (useful for debugging). I3-wm includes i3.desktop as Xsession which starts the window manager. Note: i3-gaps (a fork of i3 with gaps and other features) was recently merged into i3-wm, and as such is no longer available.
