How to install i3wm
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Hello All,
I like i3wm as I find it a very efficient working environment. I'm not much of an expert with it, and I use it mostly as it installs.
My only experience of installing it is on Debian where it is available with a simple apt install.
What is the best way to install i3wm for use with Trisquel? I found this page [1] which refers to Ubuntu. As Trisquel is based on Ubuntu should I use this?
My main GNU/Linux experience is with Debian, and I've never manually added repos before.
Thanks for any advice.
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends install i3-wm suckless-tools xterm
So it's in the main repo then? I must have been looking in the wrong place (I think it's 'i3' in Debian instead of 'i3-wm' perhaps that's why). Thank you for the assistance Gnu.
> So it's in the main repo then? I must have been looking in the wrong place
> (I think it's 'i3' in Debian instead of 'i3-wm' perhaps that's why).
You are perhaps thinking of the i3 metapackage, which includes the i3
window manager and a handful of recommended packages.
$ apt depends i3
i3
Depends: i3-wm (= 4.11-1)
Recommends: i3lock (>= 2.2)
Recommends: suckless-tools
Recommends: i3status (>= 2.3)
Recommends: dunst
Yes, I just checked and that was the mistake I made.
Thanks. I'm glad there is an easy option for i3 as I'm not a fan of MATE or LXDE. I much prefer GNOME (although it's sluggish on the X200) or XFCE as a lightweight alternative. XFCE + i3 seems a very nice combo on the X200.
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