debian man page for i3-config-wizard

I3-CONFIG-WIZARD(1)						     i3 Manual						       I3-CONFIG-WIZARD(1)

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

i3 4.1.2							    01/01/2013						       I3-CONFIG-WIZARD(1)