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This is something I do regularly and I have no problems on Ubuntu 18.04. What's the matter exactly?

• brightball 7y ago
  I was wondering the same thing. I've been on Ubuntu for 2 years now and I've never run into an issue here. EDIT: I see it now. He's running Ubuntu SERVER with i3 window manager installed and not the actual desktop distro. Just a guess, but that's the root of the issue.
  • angry_octet 7y ago
    Yeah it beats me why people do this and then complain about Linux as a desktop.
    • snazz 7y ago
      I feel like it's an open problem at this point. I think Sway is the nicest experience (given that it's very similar to i3, while being more user-friendly and not hauling all the Xorg cruft), especially with multiple monitors and stuff like input configuration all centralized. An idea: Provide a GUI (or web-based with local server, like Fish's configuration) application that lets you make changes like Wi-Fi, sound, displays, time and date, basic window manager configuration and all the other things that you'd need to go into a config file to fix. This could be paired with Sway or another tiling window manager and made into a distro for people currently using DEs to inch their way into a tiling WM.
      • panpanna 7y ago
        Let's move all that into systemd services and make the DE just a DE that talks dbus to them :)