Re: requesting i3-gaps package

[Frédéric Pierret]

On 2020-04-15 08:59, Mr CapsLock wrote:
> Hi, I'm a Qubes-OS user. It's the best OS that I had.
>
> Thanks for this project.

Welcome!

First of all, if you were not aware, please CC at least Qubes users mailing list for such request.

> I like tiling window manager like i3, but it's not very impressive without gaps. How can I request to add i3-gaps package officially for Qubes-OS?

I would suggest you to create an issue here: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/


> I'm not pro user but maybe i can help to add this, but can you help me on that?
>
> In new release, i mean new release that have gui manager, is it possible to use i3-gaps on Qubes-OS?

I'm not sure about what you are talking about for 'gui manager', maybe you refer to the Gui domain called GuiVM in upcoming 4.1 release? In all the cases, it's already possible to use i3 as primary desktop (I'm using it) and packages are available in official Qubes repositories. We don't provide i3-gaps yet but that could be possible. We don't aim to provide every desktop but that could possible into QubesOS-contrib repository.

So first of all, please create an issue as we can exchange about possibilities on it.

Best,
Frédéric

[Yethal]

i3-gaps is not really a best choice for Qubes as it by default hides titlebars from all the windows. On regular Linux distros it's not really an issue however on Qubes where the titlebar is used to identify parent AppVM of a given window this is a potential security issue.