3 Michael Stapelberg <michael+i3@stapelberg.de>
8 i3-config-wizard - creates a keysym based config based on your layout
16 === /etc/i3/config.keycodes
18 This file contains the default configuration with keycodes. All the bindcode
19 lines will be transformed to bindsym and the user-specified modifier will be
24 i3-config-wizard is started by i3 in its default config, unless ~/.i3/config
25 exists. i3-config-wizard creates a keysym based i3 config file (based on
26 /etc/i3/config.keycodes) in ~/.i3/config.
28 The advantage of using keysyms is that the config file is easy to read,
29 understand and modify. However, if we shipped with a keysym based default
30 config file, the key positions would not be consistent across different
31 keyboard layouts (take for example the homerow for movement). Therefore, we
32 ship with a keycode based default config and let the wizard transform it
33 according to your current keyboard layout.
41 Michael Stapelberg and contributors