$mod
refers to the modifier key (alt by default)
startx i3
start i3 from command line$mod+<Enter>
open a terminal$mod+d
open dmenu (text based program launcher)$mod+r
resize mode ( or to leave resize mode)$mod+shift+e
exit i3
Now located at https://github.com/JeffPaine/beautiful_idiomatic_python.
Github gists don't support Pull Requests or any notifications, which made it impossible for me to maintain this (surprisingly popular) gist with fixes, respond to comments and so on. In the interest of maintaining the quality of this resource for others, I've moved it to a proper repo. Cheers!