I love the i3 wm. I've installed it on lubuntu, and everything is ok, but it feels like there should be some other distro that i3 would be a better "match" for (I run into a lot of unwanted huge dependencies). Is there? What do you use? Thanks!
Maybe Manjaro-i3 could be interesting for you: https://manjaro.github.io/Manjaro-i3-... It is Arch-based, fully preconfigured and the configuration maintained by packages.
Since you're already using a Debian fork as your distro, have you considered to switch over to the newest Debian stable or testing release? I'm currently running Jessie with i3 and lightdm and everything seems to work just fine...
Man, I knew there'll be an arch linux answer. I've used ubuntu for years, even crunchbang (till its developer stopped), but I've always been afraid of going arch. Thanks for the XFCE pointer though!
If I'm too lazy to install Arch from scratch, I also had good experience with Manjaro, which is basically Arch with a nice installer (sometimes not the most stable one, though). You can even have it with one of the usual desktop environments. But then there goes that bare feeling :-)
For me, Arch Linux and i3 is the perfect couple.
I also used it with xubuntu (XFCE) which worked perfectly. Meanwhile, I prefer my system to be pretty bare therefore I don't feel the need for a whole dektop environment (just i3 and i3status) .
Recently I stumbled on this project which seems to streamline the process for useing i3 as a window manager in XFCE. It looks very promising, but I did not try it myself (no XFCE user anymore).
Asked: Aug 19 '15
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