Being brought to a desktop where there wasn’t really anything to click on and no menu to be found, or so I thought.

I believe it was an early adventure into Arch that led me to an unpleasant experience with a tiling window manager that I don’t remember the name of. This isn’t really my first dive into a tiling window manager, I’ve run across some before, likely by accident as I recall. So I decided to dive into the i3 tiling window manager on my Manjaro desktop, and these are some things I learned. The popularity and uses of tiling window managers would definitely improve.Ĭheck out the official page and details below if you want to contribute.I’ve heard the Linux elite talk about tiling window managers, like Manjaro i3 edition, for some time. Overall, this is very good news in a way, that many people may start using it for experiments and even start to like it. The final Fedora 34 release is still a couple of months away. That said, the Fedora 34 string freeze is due this month, and not sure how this would play out. But I think it’s better to start with i3 and who knows in the future we might see another flavor with Sway in Fedora. And it is advanced and uses a more advanced display server. Sway is an i3 clone for the Wayland display server specifically. Many might say, why not choose Sway for an official flavor. SO, users need not tweak or configure much, and it’s readily available for use for everyone as a. That means, with the power of Fedora in-house software and with the i3 window manager at the top, many users might start using Fedora for this reason.Īlong with that, many customizations would be done by the team when it ships officially. That means you get a complete Fedora workstation with i3 configured and ready to be installed.īy design, i3 has very low storage and memory footprint. Now, for the first time ever, Fedora introduces an official i3 window manager spin with Fedora 34 release.

I3 window manager