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Pretty sure he is refering to i3, the tiling window manager software.

• ido 11y ago
  Ah ok! Never heard of it.
  • buro9 11y ago
    Yeah the window manager. I only want a tiling window manager, a couple of browsers, Sublime Text 3, and access to the internet. My personal opinion is that i3 rocks, and and that I don't need all of Ubuntu or Xubuntu. I don't even need Rhythmbox or Thunar. Just give me the bare bones of a modern Linux upon which I can install i3 and add just the few things I need.
    • jhalstead 11y ago
      Any recommendations/guides for how to get i3 running in Xubuntu Core using VirtualBox on a MacBook Pro?
      • mmozeiko 11y ago
        http://i3wm.org/docs/repositories.html http://i3wm.org/docs/repositories.html
        • a3n 11y ago
          I probably followed the instructions on that page for using the i3 repos, but it's been long enough that I can't remember doing it or how I did it. But I am using their repos. I don't notice anything explicitly different or better, but i3 isn't one of those things where you're waiting for a new gizmo with anticipation; it just puts up your windows and shuts up about it. I'm on LinuxMint.
      • atmosx 11y ago
        All window-managers are pretty straight forward under linux. Read the documentation.
      • karmakaze 11y ago
        Just did this myself. The i3 docs didn't cover the topic. sudo apt-get install i3; xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /sessions/Failsafe/Client0_Command -t string -s "i3wm" -t string -s "--replace" -a # logout, login The problem was then that the Alt key wasn't being recognized, possibly due to VirtualBox.
    • globuous 11y ago
      Well, that just means that an regular (x/k)ubuntu isn't necessarily the distro you're looking for. Back in the days when I was using Linux on my main computer, canonical shipped a stripped down version of ubuntu (ubuntu server maybe ?) where you could install just what you need and nothing else (I beleive it came without a window manager for instance). What you're describing was pretty much my Archlinux setup btw. It was just more convinient for me to build it from an archlinux than a regular ubuntu. You could with an ubuntu though, it'd just be a lot more work I feel like. EDIT: turns out I'm pretty much explaining you what you already know.... I'll leave my comment up anyway, maybe it'll help someone else. > My personal opinion is that i3 rocks, and and that I don't need all of Ubuntu or Xubuntu
      • vidarh 11y ago
        Getting there with Ubuntu was pretty much "apt-get install" when I made the switch to i3wm. Sure, you end up carrying along hundreds of MB of "junk", but I just didn't find it worth the hassle to trim it down - I have far more junk than that in form of data of my own I could delete...
    • listic 11y ago
      You would be better off using an Alternate Lubuntu CD or netinstall (mini.iso) Both have a text-based installer with the option to 'Install a command line system', then go from there. I'm figuring how to install an awesome WM with MATE, lately. https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Quickly_Setting_up_Awesome_with_Gnome https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Quickly_Setting_up_Awesome... http://askubuntu.com/questions/616520/how-do-i-set-up-awesome-with-mate http://askubuntu.com/questions/616520/how-do-i-set-up-awesom...