Installation

Use your package manager's search functionality to look for an i3-gaps package. The exact package name may depend on the specific distribution you are using.

The following list contains known packages on different distributions. It is not necessarily complete. If a package is missing here and should be listed, please create an issue.

Arch / Manjaro

i3-gaps is also available from the official Arch Community Repository as i3-gaps.

The development version of i3-gaps is available from the AUR as i3-gaps-next-git.

For Manjaro there is also a dedicated i3 community spin which comes with a preconfigured system using i3-gaps.

Ubuntu

There are several PPAs available, for example this one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:regolith-linux/release
sudo apt update
sudo apt install i3-gaps

NixOS

Starting with NixOS 16.09, you can configure i3-gaps as default window manager in your /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:

services.xserver.windowManager = {
  i3-gaps.enable = true;
  default = "i3-gaps";
};

Void

xbps-install -S i3-gaps

OpenSUSE

i3-gaps is available from the official repository starting with Tumbleweed.

Gentoo

emerge i3-gaps

Fedora

sudo dnf install i3-gaps

FreeBSD

pkg install i3-gaps