Welcome back! Let's continue this guide with other setup essentials for i3. Enabling Mousetap Chances are that if you're using a laptop, then tapping on the mousepad does not equal a click for you. You need to enable tapping in your config. Fortunately, there is one documentation available that works for majority of the setups. I don't need to explain this one in detail. Here you go: Enable tap to click in i3 . Volume Control This one is simple again. Do you remember the i3 config file I talked about in the previous blog ? All you need to do is go to that file and find the line: bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume Just below that line you will find lines with XF86AudioLowerVolume and XF86AudioMute too. Anyway, the truth is, there are 2 sets of lines with these keywords. Chances are that the line: bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id pactl -- set-sink-volume 0 +5% Will be uncommented and the line: bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id pactl -- set-sink vo...

So you have started using i3 and somehow managed to open your browser and almost resumed your normal work.  But wait, the brightness is too much isn't it? Or is it too low? The mousepad used to work fine, but now all of a sudden tapping does not equal click?!  Don't worry.  This blog series will tell you all about the essential setup commands and common shortcuts that I use to navigate my work in i3, and how you can too. Changing the brightness So you just started i3 and you just can't take this brightness setting. You go for your function keys, and damn! They aren't working. Quick fix: Run the following command if you need to change the brightness ASAP. xrandr -q | grep ' connected' | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f1 This will give an ouput that's the name of your monitor.  Use that monitor name here and change the values of brightness to suit your needs. xrandr --output <monitor-name> --brightness 0.7 Now that your eyes are comfortable, let me show...