i3-gnome-flashback

Allows you to use i3 in a GNOME-Flashback session. Large parts of this are based on the existing i3-gnome project.

This has been tested working on GNOME version 3.36.

This is a fork of https://github.com/deuill/i3-gnome-flashback, which fixes compatibility with GNOME 3.36 by adding 25-gnome-flashback.gschema.override to do the following:

1. Disable the desktop icons (not because they are bad but because i3 (unlike awseome for instance) cannot handle them, it treats them like any other window.

2. Enable the root-background to allow you to use gnome-control-center to set the wallpaper

3. Replace the minimize, maximize and close buttons in the headerbar of most GNOME apps with just the appmenu.

Installation

Arch users can simply execute these commands:

git clone https://github.com/SkyyySi/i3-gnome-flashback-git.git
cd i3-gnome-flashback-git
makepkg -sifc

For Ubuntu, ensure prerequisites are installed:

sudo apt install i3 gnome-flashback build-essential

For Arch Linux, ensure prerequisites are installed:

sudo pacman -Syuv --needed i3-gaps gnome-flashback make git

Then install i3-gnome-flashback:

git clone https://github.com/SkyyySi/i3-gnome-flashback.git
cd i3-gnome-flashback
sudo make install

Notes

To understand how the files in this repo work to initialize an i3 and GNOME session, refer to this GNOME wiki on session management.