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Re:i3 4.18 by city41 on Monday February 17, 2020 @02:31PM (#22349983)
i3 couples with desktop environments rather nicely. I've used it with KDE and MATE, and others have used it successfully with XFCE.

My success with it with KDE was a little mixed, but I also didn't make any effort to resolve the little issues. With MATE though, it works flawlessly with no downsides or really any config needed. It's fantastic.

Here is how I set it up with MATE: https://www.mattgreer.org/articles/mate-and-i3/

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Re:i3 4.18 by blaser-waffle on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @09:09AM (#22365503)
Cheers for the MATE panel applet you put together (that's in the blog post): https://github.com/city41/mate-i3-applet

Also, got any pictures of the desktop?

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Re:i3 4.18 by ppseafield on Monday February 17, 2020 @03:04PM (#22350253)
I also run i3 and MATE. It's a great combo: powerful tiling window manager plus a DE that handles all the settings / control panel well (without me having to do much configuration myself!).
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Re:i3 4.18 by mbreedlove on Monday February 17, 2020 @06:58PM (#22352151)
This looks really cool, thanks for sharing!
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