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i3-wm with Ubuntu 18.04.md

  1. PRE-INSTALL

    First make sure that ubuntu (and drivers) are fully installed. If it crashes at start-up, try disableing dedicated GPUs and installing those drivers afterwards

  2. BASICS

    Install i3-wm using sudo apt-get install i3 Also install i3llock, i3status, nitrogen (bacground wallpaper), Also: sudo apt-get install lxappearance gtk-chtheme qt4-qtconfig to de-uglify gnome Start with lxappearance and choose a theme; then choose it in gtk-chtheme

  3. PERMISSIONS

    To enable installing from the gnome software center you need the permission elevation. For this install policykit-desktop-privilege, policykit-1-gnome, gnome-setting,daemon. Append the following lines to the i3 config file (~/.config/i3/conf): exec /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon exec --no-startup-id /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &

  4. SHELL

    Install zsh using śudo apt-get install zsh Install oh-my-zsh from the repository command found here: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh Choose a theme, use the gnome-integrated terminal (or something like that) Download and Update Fonts with something like this https://gist.github.com/shaykalyan/cd276a7d812dd393caf1

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At #2 (BASICS), the i3llock package is mistyped. The correct is i3lock.

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