i3-config-wizard(1)
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Michael Stapelberg <michael+i3@stapelberg.de>
v4.0, July 2011

== NAME

i3-config-wizard - creates a keysym based config based on your layout

== SYNOPSIS

i3-config-wizard

== FILES

=== /etc/i3/config.keycodes

This file contains the default configuration with keycodes. All the bindcode
lines will be transformed to bindsym and the user-specified modifier will be
used.

== DESCRIPTION

i3-config-wizard is started by i3 in its default config, unless ~/.i3/config
exists. i3-config-wizard creates a keysym based i3 config file (based on
/etc/i3/config.keycodes) in ~/.i3/config.

The advantage of using keysyms is that the config file is easy to read,
understand and modify. However, if we shipped with a keysym based default
config file, the key positions would not be consistent across different
keyboard layouts (take for example the homerow for movement). Therefore, we
ship with a keycode based default config and let the wizard transform it
according to your current keyboard layout.

== SEE ALSO

i3(1)

== AUTHOR

Michael Stapelberg and contributors
