snapi3

snapi3

⚠ The current version is not finished, the interface is not stable and is highly prone to change.

snapi3 is a companion app for i3wm. It aims to help you manipulating your windows and especially the floating ones. Its main feature, inspired by i3-grid, is to offer a grid based positioning system for your floating windows.

Snapi3 displays a grid GUI requesting the user to select one the cell where the floating window shall be positioned and resized. The grid is completely configurable.

Features

• Snapping floating windows to a grid
• Showing/Hiding windows
• Centering windows
• GUI or CLI execution

Each functionalities can be applied to one window or to a group of windows. Snapi3 also offers a way to easily manage groups of windows.

How to use

After installation, execute snapi3 help to obtain the detailed help.

Triggering the GUI can be done with the command snapi3 gui

The configuration file snapi3.yml of snapi3 is stored in your default config directory of your system (usually ~/.config).

How to build

Snapi3 is written in golang.

The easiest way to modify snapi3 is to use (visual studio code remote development tools)(https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview) and especially the container extension.

You'll also need a container execution tool like docker or podman.

The .devcontainer located in the root of this repository contains a configuration of container to be used with visual studio code.

So to modify the repository perform the following operations:

• Clone the snapi3 repository
• Use the Open Folder in container function of the vscode palette to open the directory
• Wait for the container to be running
• Inside the container, execute the command:

  goreleaser --snapshot --skip-publish --rm-dist
  

• The output binary shall be located in the dist component