> Is there a tiling window manager like i3wm for Trisquel? i3 is in the Trisquel repositories.
$ sudo apt install i3 > Can you tell me about the various tiling window managers and a little > bit about each? I've tried three tiling window managers: Enlightenment is actually a stacking window manager by default, but you can change it tiling in the settings. I used it for a month or so about a year and a half ago. I found it to be a little buggy, but that could just be because I was using it on Arch. It's more beginner-friendly than some other tiling window managers, in that it has a GUI for configuration, and looks nice by default. It's also closer to a full desktop environment than a standalone window manager in terms of what other software it includes. $ sudo apt install e17 to try it out. When I got sick of Enlightenment I went back to MATE for a while and then discovered i3. Configuration is done with text files, which might be a little intimidating for beginners, but is really not too bad once you take the plunge. By default it looks quite ugly, but it can be made to look nice with some configuration. Here's what mine looks like lately.[1] I recently tried out xmonad. Configuration is done with Haskell, a programming language, and the defaults are very bare-bones, without even a status bar, so I wouldn't recommend it for beginners. I started to configure it and it seemed promising, and I might switch to it in the future, but I just don't have time to familiarize myself with Haskell right now. > Any recommendations? For the last year or so I have used MATE, replacing MATE's default window manager (Marco) with i3-gaps. See here[2] for why and how to run MATE+i3. See here[3][4] for using i3-gaps instead of i3. It's a drop-in replacement, so you can just start with i3 and replace it with i3-gaps later. > I have mostly used Trisquel Mini up to now. Should I use netinstall > instead now? In general, if you don't want MATE (Trisquel's default) or LXDE (Trisquel-Mini's default) on your system, I do recommend a netinstall. However, if you go the MATE+i3 route you can just use the regular Trisquel ISO. [1] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/share-your-desktop-6#comment-134514 [2] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/solved-problem-lxde?page=1#comment-137343 [3] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/few-questions-installing#comment-131703 [4] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/few-questions-installing#comment-131710
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