Howdy! So I tried XFCE with i3 on Debian Testing, it’s a VM fortunately. Now the key binding are wrong for both of them. I use the Windows key inste…

Have you tried MATE + i3? [image] MATE and i3 How to use i3 with MATE to get an excellent tiling desktop experience in Linux. …

Good news. Looking forward to seeing what you end up with, if you stick with MATE + I3. One question, you have 3 bars in your screenshots. Two at th…

Wasn’t trying for the 3rd bar, it came with i3. Mate has a top and bottom bar, I actually like the two bars. I’m stuck with 3 until I can figure out h…

hi guys. So this is my MATE+i3 on Arch so far … [Screenshot at 2023-05-13 13-29-45] MATE allows you to delete the panels, so I deleted the Panel a…

Welcome to the forums! :handshake:t4: Thanks for sharing.

I like this. I would like to see i3 gaps between windows. But beyond that it’s very unique setup you guys are attempting!

Depends on what you want to have. I use Mate because it’s a continuation of GNOME 2 (how GNOME used to look) and it acts the same too, which is what I…

My tweaking comes slow. The joys of having toddler. But here are the gaps. [Screenshot at 2023-05-14 21-49-02] As I do more tweaking to get it ex…

Nice! For me, I like GNOME as I feel much at home as a MacOS user. I keep it pretty default I just add dash-to-dock: A dock for the Gnome Shell. and g…

Okay fixed the 3 bars issue: [Screenshot from 2023-05-16 13-35-43] [Screenshot from 2023-05-16 13-32-08] [Screenshot from 2023-05-16 13-31-20] I …

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