You can make it floating or even tabbed with i3 by pressing the correct keys.
You can have floating windows in i3 as well if I recall. I believe the default bindkey to toggle floating is $mod+Shift+Space, and you can define applications to always float too, for example: for_window [class="Firefox" instance="Places"] floating enable
Anything that gets you to stop using GNOME is worth it. Doesnāt have to be i3.
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Could be KDE you know! Itās like candy. Once you try it itās just sweet! 
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Whatever suits you better. They are the tools for the same thing.
xrander is command based
arandr has convinient gui
I would say donāt limit yourself to i3wm, although the eOS edition is really good. AwesomeWM is arguably more newbie friendly, especially for someone coming from a traditional desktop environment. It is harder to configure than i3, but you can find lots of pre-made setups on github and the like.
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And to not confuse things further there is autorandr 
which I use to save my xrandr profiles.
Opiniated advice : switch to i3
Unopiniated advice : switch to i3
Iām a lazy person and most wm other than i3 have a bit of learning curve - cause of which I donāt use them for daily use. But i3 has been differentā¦ After I used i3, I now find normal DE to be difficult. 
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For the strange voice thingyā¦ This happened on the old iso when installing both xfce and i3wm at the same time. My understanding is to fix that you need to disable in your i3 config file the line that says dex by commenting it out
That is orca.
Need to uninstall it and no voice thereafter
As others mentionned, yes, it is totally worth your time and it is a good entry point to tiling window managers.
I started with i3 a few months ago on Endeavour, I was glad having it already set up.
Honestly, i3 is not hard to learn by any means, compared to say, dwm or Xmonad.
I can assure you, you will not regret it.
Eventually you might get tired of manual tiling one day, and move over to something like qtile, dwm or Xmonad, which are dynamic tilers.
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thanks for this.
Would you mind please telling me where would I find the i3 config file?
The default config file for i3 should be: /etc/i3/config
Then, you could just do sudo cp /etc/i3/config $HOME/.config/i3/config. ($HOME/.config/i3/config is where the config file is generally stored.)
Yes, it is worth putting the effort in. If itās your first tiling window manager, you may find that this is an ideal way to run linux, rather than a desktop environment. You will eventually find out that i3 is a manual tiling window manager and sooner or later you will wonder what a dynamic window tiling manager would look like. When you reach that point, go to suckless.org and look at DWM. Iāve tried most of the serious tiling window managers and in my very humble opinion there is nothing to touch DWM with a few good patches (I have 9) and ST as your terminal emulator, plus DMENU.
In short, give i3 a couple of months, learn all about using a tiling window manager, then switch to DWM.
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Hey David, that is EXACTLY the path I followed. Now I am using dwm and couldnāt be happier. This thing is a beast. Cannot recommend it enough.
Thank you.
Sounds interesting.
Personally, I use i3 on my laptop, but not on my desktop. I really enjoy with 1 monitor. I split windows and the screen and move them around quickly with shortcuts as well as use multiple workspaces.
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