I started to use i3 and I love it so far, and then I tried to enable i3-gaps on i3 but when I tried to enable it I receive this error I don't understand at all...
ERROR: CONFIG: (in file /home/$USER/.config/i3/config)
ERROR: CONFIG: Line 214: # Gaps
ERROR: CONFIG: Line 215: for_window [class="^.*"] border pixel 2
ERROR: CONFIG: Line 216: gaps inner 10
ERROR: CONFIG: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ERROR: CONFIG: Line 217: gaps outer 10
ERROR: CONFIG: Line 218:
ERROR: CONFIG: Expected one of these tokens: <end>, '#', 'set ', 'set ', 'set_from_resource', 'include', 'bindsym', 'bindcode', 'bind', 'bar', 'font', 'mode', 'floating_minimum_size', 'floating_maximum_size', 'floating_modifier', 'default_orientation', 'workspace_layout', 'default_border', 'new_window', 'default_floating_border', 'new_float', 'hide_edge_borders', 'for_window', 'assign', 'no_focus', 'focus_follows_mouse', 'mouse_warping', 'focus_wrapping', 'force_focus_wrapping', 'force_xinerama', 'force-xinerama', 'disable_randr15', 'disable-randr15', 'workspace_auto_back_and_forth', 'fake_outputs', 'fake-outputs', 'force_display_urgency_hint', 'focus_on_window_activation', 'title_align', 'show_marks', 'workspace', 'ipc_socket', 'ipc-socket', 'ipc_kill_timeout', 'restart_state', 'popup_during_fullscreen', 'exec_always', 'exec', 'client.background', 'client.focused_inactive', 'client.focused', 'client.unfocused', 'client.urgent', 'client.placeholder'
ERROR: CONFIG: (in file /home/$USER/.config/i3/config)
ERROR: CONFIG: Line 215: for_window [class="^.*"] border pixel 2
ERROR: CONFIG: Line 216: gaps inner 10
ERROR: CONFIG: Line 217: gaps outer 10
ERROR: CONFIG: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ERROR: CONFIG: Line 218:
ERROR: FYI: You are using i3 version 4.20.1 (2021-11-03)
According to Debian i3 wiki, you just need to add 'gaps inner 10' to your config file to make it work, but I do exactly that and it didn't work, I receive the same exact message.
It says at the bottom you're using a version built in Nov 2021, you might just need to update to the latest release (latest Arch release is 4.23-1, built 10-29-2023).
If the version in your repos is that out of date though (you didn't state your distro so there's no telling offhand), your best bet may to be to build it from source and install it.