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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)



  • i3wm is my favorite window manager, but I find I can get a good 90% out of either Gnome or KDE Plasma, with a bit of settings fiddling.

    I think I added “Metacity” plugin to Gnome, to get proper tiling. It was okay.

    In KDE Plasma, I just poke the settings to maximize windows by default, and enable keyboard shifting windows into half screen increments.

    It’s an annoying compromise, but it’s nice not to have all the jank that comes with tuning my i3wm setup to add basic features that KDE Plasma ships with.

    Edit: And I’ll be reading along, hoping someone else has a better answer than mine!




  • Where do you get once every 2 years? Do you never reboot your machine?

    I’m hearing you like to reboot your machine unusually often.

    The reason I can think of where clicking would be a huge pain in the ass is an automatic task. I have some of those, but I put them on machines that I treat as servers, and the time between reboots is genuinely counted in years, for those machines.

    At this point you must be missing the point on purpose.

    I wasn’t before, but now I am.

    I find your argument distasteful. If you want a server, use a server. But there’s no need to shout to the world that servers require command line use. That’s normal in 2025.

    If you treat your laptop like a server, that’s okay. No one is judging. But my grandma isn’t doing that, and it rings hollow to complain so loudly about it in a thread about average users enjoying Linux Mint.

    An average user will never even notice the issue you have been complaining about, while enjoying the product for free.

    I don’t normally tell people to go open a pull request, but you should do so, if only to get a better understanding of what the community has already given you for free.