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x4fyr

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Registered: 2014-10-12

Posts: 5

i3 and plasma 5

Hey,

I just want to ask, if some one tried to use i3 as windowmanager with plasma 5.

I tried first the kde4-way (adding i3.desktop file and select it in kde settings), and it is just ignored as it runs kwin as usal.
then I started a plain i3 and run plasmashell inside, and it opens as some kind of window on mainscreen (have a multihead setup with xrandr) overlaying everthing. If I try to move it to another workspace, it moves to the 2nd screen (even if the workspace is mapped to mainscreen), and stays there from that on.

So is there anyone who tried it, and got it work?

P.S.:
Used following to install kde/plasma5

pacman -S kde-meta #selected kactivities-frameworks as kactivities
pacamn -Rc kdebase-workspace
pacman -S plasma-meta