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:
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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.
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Enable the root-background to allow you to use gnome-control-center to set the wallpaper
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Replace the minimize, maximize and close buttons in the headerbar of most GNOME apps with just the appmenu.
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
To understand how the files in this repo work to initialize an i3 and GNOME session, refer to this GNOME wiki on session management.