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Linux mint + i3 Question (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by mapleseedfall@lemmy.world to c/linuxmint@lemmy.ml

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Hi, I ve been exploring some wm and came across i3wm. Ive been loving the workflow for it. Currently im using lm cinnamon and installed i3 on top. But I think its a janky setup.

is there a way to get mint stability + workflow of i3?

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

cinnamon and installed i3 on top

How does that work? Cinnamon has its own WM, you can't run another "on top".

Exact steps & description that led to your current setup please.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Last time I set it up, i3wm basically does run "on top" or rather mixed in with componenets of other desktop environments.

Tehnically, one can run i3wm alone, but really, it wants a bunch of parts from another desktop environment to be loaded, and it's not particularly opinionated about which ones.

If I recall correctly, picking it (a friendly i3wm meta-package) on Ubuntu gave me i3wm with a bunch of pieces of Mate pre-loaded to fill in the edges.

The previous time I set up i3wm, there was no friendly package (yes, I'm old), so I looked up the names of about a dozen Gnome services and applets, and added them to the i3wm config to launch them on i3wm start-up.

(Edit: missed an important not)

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

i3wm basically does run “on top” or rather mixed in

That's not the same