i3 support?

[Stumpy]

I have been considering looking into i3 on my qubes box but was
wondering about support in the future. As there appears to be a bit of a
learning curve i wanted to check before diving in.

w/ v3 i was using kde then, as support seemed to wan, i switched over to
xfce which is admittedly lighter but doest seem to be as feature rich.

is there any "official" stance on i3 now and going on into the future?

[Yethal]

There is an i3 package in main Qubes repo and it does work fine. I use i3 as my daily DE in Qubes and couldn't be happier with it.

[Stumpy]

Thanks, thats good to know. Do you have a multi-monitor setup? I jsut
ask because I am hoping for better MM support than XFCE offers.

As for the package availability, I beleive there is still a kde package
as well - what I am hoping to learn (maybe I should ask on the dev list?
really dont want to distract them though) is the "long term
availability" of i3. It seems like kde might not be offered in the
future and while i am guessing it should be possible to install whatever
win manager one might want, I prefer to go with what the community is
supporting as I wouldn't trust myself to properly securely install
another winman myself.

thanks!

[solworth...@gtempaccount.com]

Yes, i3 works very well with multiple monitors. I use my notebook in three different configurations, standalone, dual (with a large external monitor) and
clone (hdmi same as screen).

i3 does layout to use the whole screen, partitioning as necessary. In my dual configuration, each screen is managed separately. You can pair screens independently, one on the notebook and one on the external display. You can reconfigure between the two using xrandr.

Jon

[Sven Semmler]

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On 3/23/19 3:11 PM, Stumpy wrote:
> w/ v3 i was using kde then, as support seemed to wan, i switched
> over to xfce which is admittedly lighter but doest seem to be as
> feature rich.

I too use i3 and couldn't be happier with it, however it is somewhat
of a bare-bones environment. You will be dealing with config files and
CLI.

So judging by your sentence above, I am not sure i3 is really the
direction you want to go.
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