How to install on Ubuntu: my solution

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  • qtile

    :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)

  • #!/bin/bash # last updated July 4, 2023... “We will not go quietly into the night..."" # Update system sudo apt-get update # Install core dependencies sudo apt-get install -y python3-cffi libpangocairo-1.0-0 --reinstall # Install xcffib with pip # pinning to this version since newer versions don't have ffi_build (I think renamed to just ffi): # https://github.com/tych0/xcffib/tree/v0.12.1/module pip3 install xcffib==0.12.1 # Install cairocffi with pip # The order of xcffib and cairocffi is important and the flags are important: # https://github.com/qtile/qtile/issues/994#issuecomment-497984551 pip3 install --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation cairocffi==1.4.0 # Install Qtile pip3 install qtile==0.22.1 --force-reinstall # Create a desktop entry for Qtile echo "[Desktop Entry] Name=Qtile Comment=Qtile Session Exec=qtile start Type=Application Keywords=wm;tiling" | sudo tee /usr/share/xsessions/qtile.desktop echo "Qtile installation completed successfully. You can select Qtile from your session manager."

  • xcffib

    A drop-in replacement for xpyb based on cffi

  • #!/bin/bash # last updated July 4, 2023... “We will not go quietly into the night..."" # Update system sudo apt-get update # Install core dependencies sudo apt-get install -y python3-cffi libpangocairo-1.0-0 --reinstall # Install xcffib with pip # pinning to this version since newer versions don't have ffi_build (I think renamed to just ffi): # https://github.com/tych0/xcffib/tree/v0.12.1/module pip3 install xcffib==0.12.1 # Install cairocffi with pip # The order of xcffib and cairocffi is important and the flags are important: # https://github.com/qtile/qtile/issues/994#issuecomment-497984551 pip3 install --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation cairocffi==1.4.0 # Install Qtile pip3 install qtile==0.22.1 --force-reinstall # Create a desktop entry for Qtile echo "[Desktop Entry] Name=Qtile Comment=Qtile Session Exec=qtile start Type=Application Keywords=wm;tiling" | sudo tee /usr/share/xsessions/qtile.desktop echo "Qtile installation completed successfully. You can select Qtile from your session manager."

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