At this point you can choose to lose xfce4-panel - which I didn’t want to do, it’s what originally brought me to look into this, or you can lose i3bar (I guess if you really wanted you could keep both, but that’s up to you).

We will be using the i3 config file and to make life easier, you will want to nix the whole lot of them.Īnd that’s that, Log Out and Log back in to see your nice new fancy XFCE system with i3 as it’s window manager! We’re not done, but we’re getting close! At this point everything works! Maybe a bit too well. Don’t save any, even if you think you need it, you don’t. So, the next step is to pull up the XFCE shortcuts and remove ALL of them. But, it would be a shame to have i3 and not use the i3 keybindings. Next up, XFCE is super nice to provide us with keybinding shortcuts. Click ok and notice that i3 now shows up as an Autostart application. The name and command are both i3, but you can put whatever you want as the description. You need to switch them from “Immediately” to “Never.” and then click on and Save SessionĪfter saving your session you will need to click over to Application Autostart, this is where we will put in i3 as a startup application. We won’t need them, those are what we will be replacing with i3. The next step from here is to open up your startup session. Pull up your terminal though, and you’ll notice if you pull nano ~/.config/i3/config we in fact also already have a nice preset i3 config file with preset keybindings ready to roll for you.īut we’re not here to install XFCE and then i3. Now that we’re done, it’s time to log into your XFCE user space.Īs you can see, XFCE and XFCE4 window manager. I would also strongly suggest installing the LTS kernel at the same time.įor simplicity of this installation - I will be using ext4 filesystem and no swap - please configure your installation to your liking. You will need to de-select the EOS themeing and install the vanilla XFCE for this tutorial This will very easily put all of the i3 config files in the correct place for you, and give you all of the EOS keybindings and such to go with it. It’s time to install! It’s VERY important you select both XFCE and i3 now at the same time. Please pour yourself a drink and let’s go!Īlright, so we have our live USB. This is a walk through from fresh install to a nice usable setup the way I do it. I’m sure you can do it by adding in i3 later. I’m sure there’s more than one way to do this. give it a go, maybe it’s what you’re looking for.

Updated to coincide with the latest iso August 28, 2021Īs per a request: EASY setup of XFCE while using the i3 window manager in place of xfce4.

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