I installed i3 downloaded from OpenBSD's repos. Laptop is AcerOne 756 w/4gig mem, 350gig HD, all dedicated to OpenBSD 5.4
At console, after I login OpenBSD, I type i3 -V and it responds...
01/18/14 10:20:32 - i3 4.5.2 (2013-03-18, branch "tags/4/5/2") starting
i3: Cannot open display
You can just add following line to your ~/.xinitrc:
exec i3
If you don't have an .xinitrc, just create one. If you want to have debug information about i3 start then you can use
exec i3 -V >> ~/.i3/i3log 2>&1
in your .xinitrc.
You will just have a terminal login and no fancy GUI, but I prefer it that way.
At the moment you have to type startx manually after login, but it shouldn't be a big problem to startx from your loginshell. Normally you can just add a line to your ~/.zprofile or whatever shell you are using.
Disclaimer: This works on ArchLinux, but should not be much different on openBSD. Please do correct me if I am wrong.
Thank you Michael.
OpenBSD login, followed by startx can load xdm or GDM but then installed i3 request only produces...
ERROR: Another window manager seems to be running (X error 10)
That was a big help cee...
To get i3 to load, I only needed to follow your file creation, in the log format, with the command...
mkdir ~/.i3
so startx would not get stopped, complaining about the >> redirect line.
Install a display manager such as GDM (or xdm if you like it more minimalistic), which will start X and launch a window manager (such as i3) for you.
Asked: 2014-01-18 20:30:44 +0000
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Last updated: Jan 22 '14
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