{"slug": "i3wm", "name": "i3wm", "category": "os", "category_name": "Operating systems and desktop", "description": "", "recommenders": 1, "commenters": 4, "warners": 0, "score": 1.76, "rising": 1.0, "first": "2026-04-25", "latest": "2026-08-03", "why": "And i3wm supports tabs, the tab title automatically set by most AI agents and apps to be something helpful, so it's trivial to find.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "And i3wm supports tabs, the tab title automatically set by most AI agents and apps to be something helpful, so it's trivial to find.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["i3wm"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 786547088, "item_id": 49159193, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159193", "by": "kantord", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "And i3wm supports tabs, the tab title automatically set by most AI agents and apps to be something helpful, so it's trivial to find.", "excerpt": "I use a tiling window manager to manage each task (/workflow/issue/ticket) on a separate (visual) workspace with its own isolated container/git worktree that is bound to it. I name my workspaces to match the task, so it's easy to find all terminal sessions/apps related to one task; then I only have to be able to find a session/app within the task. 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I name my workspaces to match the task, so it's easy to find all terminal sessions/apps related to one task; then I only have to be able to find a session/app within the task. And i3wm supports tabs, the tab title automatically set by most AI age", "context": "", "use_case": "managing agent sessions per task", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Claude multisession"}, {"id": 776601048, "item_id": 48537565, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537565", "by": "tenderfault", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have my i3wm running on a gpu partition inside hyper-v", "excerpt": "I switched to Windows 10 as my main development machine few years ago after 25 years of continuously crashing Linux with an enormous pleasure. FreeBSD, well, there's nothing to crash there, that's the problem with it. Nothing. I didn't know almost anything about this Windows OS so I just started playing some sort of whac-a-mole game with it. I don't know what I did but right now I'm a happy (windows 11) user. I use H", "context": "", "use_case": "Linux window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"}, {"id": 774638400, "item_id": 48414900, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414900", "by": "magios", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "i3wm with bindings in config to use xdotool to move and click the mouse is what i use.", "excerpt": "i3wm with bindings in config to use xdotool to move and click the mouse is what i use.", "context": "", "use_case": "keyboard-driven mouse control", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mouseless \u2013 keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"}, {"id": 766468625, "item_id": 47904289, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904289", "by": "_rousbound", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Being a i3wm(now sway) user", "excerpt": "For people that went from i3wm to Niri, I would love to be convinced. 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