The Fedora i3 Spin provides the popular i3 tiling window manager. It makes i3 accessible and appealing to both novices and advanced users who prefer not to use a mouse, touchpad, or other pointing device to interact with their environment. Featuring lightweight applications for web browsing, text editing, and media playback, the Fedora i3 Spin offers a complete experience with a minimalist user interface.
Going Online
Firefox
The popular and free web browser backed by Mozilla, a non-profit dedicated to internet health and privacy.
NetworkManager Applet
Just a click and you're connected to your wireless LAN router, or online via many supported 3G mobile broadband cards.
nmcli
CLI application to control the NetworkManager configuration. It gives you the power of the nm-applet, but in the terminal.
Configuration
rxvt-unicode
Also known as urxvt, it's a lightweight terminal emulator fully customizable.
brightlight
brightlight gets and sets the screen back-light brightness on Linux systems using the kernel sysfs interface.
azote
A GTK+3-based picture browser and background setter.
Utilities
i3lock
Simple screen locker
i3status
Small program for generating a status bar for i3bar, dzen2, xmobar or similar programs
dmenu
Dynamic menu for X11
dunst
Highly-configurable and lightweight notification daemon
htop
Interactive process viewer
mousepad
Simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment
Thunar
file manager for Linux and other Unix-like systems
Support Resources
Chat
General help is available in #fedora-i3 IRC channel on irc.libera.chat for real-time chat.
Users and developers are also available on the mailing list at i3wm@lists.fedoraproject.org.
Documentation
Specific documentation and tutorials are available in Fedora Docs and the i3 project upstream website.
General Help Using Fedora
Sometimes you may encounter an issue with this spin that you can get help with using general Fedora support resources. A list of resources is available at the Fedora “Get Help” page.