I3wm
 i3wm on the Nokia N900 | |
| Name | i3wm |
|---|---|
| Graphics stack | i3wm on Xorg |
| In postmarketOS | |
| Package | postmarketos-ui-i3wm |
| Status | Available |
Status
i3wm is working quite well on the N900. It does not make sense to run this interface on a device without a hardware keyboard, because it is a tiling window manager. Since the N900 keyboard does not provide the same keys, as a regular keyboard does, the N900 device package has its own i3 config. It is easy to add such a config to your device as well, just look at how it's done in device-nokia-n900, modify your device package accordingly and make a pull request.
Installation
Run pmbootstrap init and choose i3wm in the interface section.
Ideas
- How about a wallpaper for the N900 with i3wm, that is based on the postmarketOS wallpaper, but shows the keybindings on the desktop?
- Someone !1343 started working on porting this setup, which would enable touch-only devices to use it.
Guide
Follow the Display guide to change and fix display related issues.
See also
- Popular /r/unixporn post
- !1225 initial pull request