i3 window manager extensions

i3 is a tiling window manager for advanced Linux users. This note introduces some handy extensions to i3:

• a file-manager extension with a proper workflow,
• an exit-mode extension and
• a pass-through-mode extension.

The extensions can be enabled by appending some lines of code to the i3 configuration file etc/i3/conf. The following explains theses changes. A complete configuration sample can be downloaded here.

Table of contents:

• 1. File manager integration
  • 1.1. File manager usage in scratchpad
  • 1.2. Source code of file manager integration
• 2. Exit mode
  • 2.1. Exit mode usage
  • 2.2. Source code
• 3. Pass-through mode
• 4. Date stamper

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