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pappix

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Registered: 2013-06-10

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[Solved] How to Install i3 with xorg

HI guys,
I am trying to figure out if it is possible to install i3 having only xorg installed.
I followed the installation guide for arch-linux and I installed X-org

pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit

I have installed and configured i3 as explained here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/i3

Despite my efforts I am not able to make it run. Could you please explain me:
1) what are the minimum requirements to run i3 in terms of desktop environment?
2) have I missed something in the installation process?
Thank you for your help!

Last edited by pappix (2014-03-17 23:12:00)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] How to Install i3 with xorg

What exactly went wrong? Any errors?
If you're using ~/.xinitrc, post it.

pappix

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Registered: 2013-06-10

Posts: 24

Re: [Solved] How to Install i3 with xorg

Hi Karol,
thanks for the fast reply! I kept trying and at the end I was able to start i3 by running

xinit i3

It turned out that was failing to execute i3 because i set ~/.xinitrc in the following way:

exec i3 -V >> ~/.i3/i3log 2>&1

and since i3 was never run before there was no ~/.i3 directory. During the first execution of i3 it asks for the creation of such directory, thus after the 1st execution it is possible to write the full command line in /.xinitrc, but if you do that before, you have to create the directory first.
BTW now I am running i3 with XORG alone, it' s ugly but I am going to work on it.
Thanks for the help though, I hope this post will help someone else

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] How to Install i3 with xorg

Does 'startx' work now?

pappix

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Registered: 2013-06-10

Posts: 24

Re: [Solved] How to Install i3 with xorg

Yes now it works by running startx only

Last edited by pappix (2014-03-17 21:18:50)

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: [Solved] How to Install i3 with xorg

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

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