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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    8 days ago

    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.

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      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)