Well, yeah. They're WMs, not DEs. However, you can use i3 with gnome by launching gnome-session with the arg --session=i3. The instructions for setting up the D

Well, yeah. They're WMs, not DEs. However, you can use i3 with gnome by launching gnome-session with the arg --session=i3. The instructions for setting up the DM to do this on Ubuntu can be found at http://blog.hugochinchilla.net/2013/03/using-gnome-3-with-i3-window-manager/ http://blog.hugochinchilla.net/2013/03/using-gnome-3-with-i3.... They're for Ubuntu, but it's fairly similar in other distros (although it varies by DM).