i3-auto-layout

Automatic, optimal tiling for i3wm inspired by the deprecated i3-alternating-layouts and bspwm. An appropriate split is set for each window based on its geometry.

Improvements over i3-alternating-layouts:

• single compiled binary with no dependencies (except i3 of course)
• written in Rust for maximum performance and low resource usage (~0% CPU, ~0% MEM)
• works asynchronously over IPC

Before

After

Installation

Grab a binary from releases OR cargo install --git https://github.com/chmln/i3-auto-layout

Then somewhere in your i3 config

exec_always --no-startup-id i3-auto-layout

Debug

RUST_LOG=debug i3-auto-layout