Hi
I’ve uploaded my i3wm configuration to GitHub for community to play around with. Just follow the link https://github.com/dzaczek/Uconsole-i3/ . Please keep in mind that it’s still under development, so there might be a few bugs here and there. Enjoy experimenting!
Hi there – finally got around to trying this – some notes from your instructions:
open /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/desktop.conf and change windows_manager to i3
This file doesn’t exist on my stock A06 uConsole – newly flashed the latest image to a new SD card.
The directory /etc/xdg exists, but lxsession directory doesn’t exist.
last comment:
sudo apt install apt-get install maim xclip copyq xdotool
apt install / apt-get install looks duplicated / etc.
Followed the instructions as best as I could – I created the above folder / file that didn’t exist – but no log getting i3 working. Ideas?
Cheers,
Jeff
HI
What is contained in the /etc/xdg directory on your device?"
and yes you have right there is typo word double apt
sudo apt install maim xclip copyq xdotool
Currently the following in /etc/xdg:
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jun 17 2022 .
drwxr-xr-x 147 root root 12288 Oct 27 15:17 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 14:18 autostart
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 14:14 menus
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1444 Jan 12 2018 pamix.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 2022 systemd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 2022 Thunar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 414 Mar 25 2022 user-dirs.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 418 Mar 25 2022 user-dirs.defaults
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 27 14:13 xfce4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 14:14 Xwayland-session.d
I think I finally figured out that this is for the RPi version of uConsole – I have the A06 version.
For the A06 version, I was able to just: sudo apt install i3 and i3 was there and working – the one thing that needed to be done was to rotate the screen – which your i3 config does:
#uconsole rotate
exec --no-startup-id xrandr --output DSI-1 --rotate right
Cheers,
Jeff
Perfect good job I was afraid there is wayland and not supporting i3 . But looks fine I added some wallpapers generated by midjourney and the most important thing battery level script you can find in block scripts . I will add you workaround to GitHub 
wow, love the colors
Thanks I generated this wallpaper by ai , In wallp directory there is more wallpapers
already clone the repo and using the wallpaper now 
I’ve followed your scripts to change the window_manager to I3 in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/desktop.conf, but the mutter still comes, and overlap on the screen, I could use the comond of i3, but the whole screen is covered with mutter dasktop
That didn’t work for me either – I’d suggest changing the desktop.conf back to mutter and then just edit
~/.dmrc
and change
[Desktop]
Session=lightdm-xsession
to
[Desktop]
Session=i3
and reboot
Maybe the author forgot one thing below.
After changing the mutter to i3, remember to edit the file “/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart”, and comment the top two lines (lxpanel and pcmanfm).
Hope this may help those who have this issue.
Hi yest you have totally right i made dumy mistake and i frgotten about this one file
…mind if i ask what this i3 is
i3 is a minimalist, tiling window manager designed for Linux systems, emphasizing efficiency and keyboard-driven operations. Unlike traditional window managers, i3 places windows in a non-overlapping, grid-like pattern, maximizing screen real estate and allowing for easy navigation and organization using keyboard shortcuts. It’s highly customizable, appealing to users who enjoy a clean, efficient, and streamlined computing environment.
Would this be available for pi os
It working on any Linux os
Or, if you want to try wayland, you can also install Sway Compositor via apt, and it uses a similar configuration syntax and keyboard-driven flow.
The big question for both of them is how to get usable key bindings. I don’t want to use Alt or control as a modifier because this will conflict with application key bindings. It’s better to use Super, which applications don’t tend to use.
I am experimenting with xkb to try to do a couple of things:
I think these changes would really make sway or i3 quite usable on this device with its full keyboard and small screen.
Ideally I would tweak the keyboard firmware, however, as the behavior of the fn key is hard-coded into the keyboard firmware. I would rather handle this at the xkb level.
