i3 Again

I setup on the first i3 again on my main desktop computer. I wrote about why I switched off of it, and how I brought it back to "a usable keyboard-navigable" state in my weblog:

[https] Manjaro Experiment

Why i3

Window navigation, and window tiling. I had been using i3 for many years prior and still use it on my work laptop daily. I had grown frustrated effectively manually tiling my windows. And decided to just go ahead and reinstall i3. However, instead of being the only window manager on my machine KWin still exists and I have my full KDE desktop environment being under utilized at the moment.

In the meantime

Right now I simply setup i3 in my normal KDE environment, and I switched the session at the bottom of my login screen. This seems to have caused some interesting bugs throughout the process. VLC seems to glitch out. Some steam games just bugout and won't launch without a reboot after first attempt. It is strange. I am use to running a headless install that I install X11 and i3 onto, so I've never had to do the push-pull of two "environments" at once.

So I will probably just revert back to KWin until I have the time to do a fresh arch installation, if I can't figure out what configs/environment settings are missing until then.

Tips

If you have any tips on running i3 as the desktop and window manager in a KDE install let me know. I don't need _any_ plasma panels or widgets. I honestly don't need anything from it. But until I reset to a fresh env I need to deal... So let me know!

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