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by tveyben 2253 days ago
Excellent!!! I think this is exactly what I have been wishing for (fro quite some time now)!

I am not quite ready to make the switch to i3 as a WM, (I'm still fairly 'new' in the Ubuntu world, so still need the GUI to help me find settings that I don't know the name of thus how to access via a CLI) this brings me all the great features for my terminal (just like you stated).

This is now the first item on my TODO list for testing new SW :-)

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You should give https://regolith-linux.org/ a try. It's a Ubuntu based distro with i3 as WM. They have polished a few things here and there so you have icons for WiFi and easy access to settings.
Despite my initial speed bump, this is now my window manager on both my laptop and desktop. This thing is terrific. Thank you.
Just used the PPA. Looks very nice. Has some very nice defaults. Super-Shift-? to get the keybinds was a great idea. I did hit one snag: I can't figure out how to run any actual programs. With the remapping of Super-d to pull up display settings, I am not seeing anything that will pop up an equivalent to dmenu.
it should be on super-space. and super-enter creates an new terminal.
I saw that on the web page. All I needed to know, minus how to get the bar on the top. The Action|Keybinding menu that comes up on first launch is simply too tall to fit on my laptop screen; the most important section Launch is off screen if I don't close several of the others. All in all, though, I'm very impressed with it.
Glad that your enjoying it. Just add these lines to ~/.config/i3/config and reset. That should get the bar on the top.

  # Start i3bar to display a workspace bar
  bar {
    position top
    status_command i3status
  }