# GUI settings app for i3?

**URL:** <https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/gui-settings-app-for-i3/15145>\
**Category:** All WMs\
**Created:** [June 12, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/gui-settings-app-for-i3/15145 "2021-06-12T20:23:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![anon42914143](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@anon42914143](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon42914143)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/gui-settings-app-for-i3/15145/1 "2021-06-12T20:23:38Z")

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I know, this will be sacrilegious, but… is there a GUI that I can install that will give me a system settings (per say) for i3? I am getting too nervous to muck around in config files to make minor tweaks like natural scrolling and screen brightness or anything else that comes up.

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**Author:** ![ReemZ](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/reemz/32/20301_2.png) [@ReemZ](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ReemZ)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/gui-settings-app-for-i3/15145/2 "2021-06-12T20:56:29Z")

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As for GUI for i3, no idea, sorry, but no need to be

> [@anon42914143](#):
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> too nervous to muck around in config files

As with everything, step 0 is always: make backups.  
What I tend to do before messing with any sort of configuration file, is make a copy of it in the same directory with something like `~` or `.save` or `.original` or whatever suffixed, so I’ll know that that’s the file as it was before I started breaking things 😉

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**Author:** ![anon75994754](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d78d45/32.png) [@anon75994754](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon75994754)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/gui-settings-app-for-i3/15145/3 "2021-06-12T21:06:17Z")

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maybe fit you better .. you get gui that you want 😉

> [@\[Tutorial\] Easy Setup: Endeavour XFCE + i3 tiling window manager](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tutorial-easy-setup-endeavour-xfce-i3-tiling-window-manager/13171):
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> updated to coincide with the latest iso August 28, 2021 As per a request: EASY setup of XFCE while using the i3 window manager in place of xfce4. @anon31549144 - give it a go, maybe it’s what you’re looking for. I’m sure there’s more than one way to do this. I’m sure you can do it by adding in i3 later. This is a walk through from fresh install to a nice usable setup the way I do it. Please pour yourself a drink and let’s go! Alright, so we have our live USB. It’s time to install! It’s…

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**Author:** ![joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/joekamprad/32/77608_2.png) [@joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/joekamprad)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/gui-settings-app-for-i3/15145/4 "2021-06-12T21:12:21Z")

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There are a lot of possiblities to setup your environment around i3, but i3 itself is configured with a single config file easy to handle without a GUI… And with basic knowledge on moving / copy files and using nano you can revert if i3 is not starting from login to TTY2 Yo can also copy / backup the i3 config folder all together `cp -r ~/.config/i3 ~/.config/i3-original`

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**Author:** ![anon53396576](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@anon53396576](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon53396576)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/gui-settings-app-for-i3/15145/5 "2021-06-12T21:12:27Z")

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Its not a desktop environment. you need to do the work.