It's lightweight, highly customizable, powerful, and the perfect fit for just about anyone newly venturing into the world of Linux ricing.
Someone started working on porting this setup, which would enable touch-only devices to use it.įollow the Display guide to change and fix display related issues. i3wm or, i3 Window Manager, is a popular choice amongst beginners and veterans alike. How about a wallpaper for the N900 with i3wm, that is based on the postmarketOS wallpaper, but shows the keybindings on the desktop? A window manager or WM is system software that controls the placement and appearance of application windows within a. When booting for the first time, you need to select i3 in the top left dropdown, where it allows you to choose the session. It supports tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts, which it handles. Run pmbootstrap init and choose i3wm in the interface section.Ĭurrently this installs lxdm as display manager (a common display manager is planned, see gitlab issue 88). i3 is a tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii and written in C. 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. I personally use it when I need to fire up virtualization software so my computer will have sufficient RAM for the guest OS. It is used by many geeks who prefer more resources for their computers. Since the N900 keyboard does not provide the same keys, as a regular keyboard does, the N900 device package has its own i3 config. i3wm is a tiling window manager that is powerful and resource efficient. 
It does not make sense to run this interface on a device without a hardware keyboard, because it is a tiling window manager.
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