# Airblader/i3

A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3.

Repository: https://github.com/Airblader/i3
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/airblader-i3
Language: C
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: i3-gaps, i3, i3wm, x11, x11-wm, xorg, xcb
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-11-01T17:29:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4303, "days_push": 1401, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5795, forks 310 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:29.684972+00:00)

## What it is
i3-gaps is a fork of the i3 tiling window manager for X11 that adds gaps between windows and other extra features. The project has been merged back into upstream i3 (available since i3 4.22) and this repository is archived.

## Use cases
- tiling window manager with gaps between windows
- customize per-workspace inner and outer gaps
- keyboard-driven X11 window management
- minimal desktop environment for Linux
- configure gaps at runtime via i3-msg

## When to choose
- you are stuck on an older i3 version (< 4.22) and want gaps
- you need a legacy i3-gaps build for an old distribution

## When to avoid
- you use i3 4.22 or newer, which includes gaps natively
- you want an actively maintained window manager
- you use Wayland instead of X11

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: gui, developer-tools
- domain: desktop-applications, operating-systems, developer-tools
- platform: cpp
- tags: i3wm, tiling-window-manager, x11, i3-gaps, xorg, merged-upstream, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- Airblader/i3 (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:29.684972+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:52:47.801923+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Airblader/i3 (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:29.684972+00:00, sha c76425ff61e4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.