What's the bare minimum of knowledge required before switching to a window manager ?

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  • my-i3-config

    This is the configuration or dot files components that together makes my i3 working desktop environment.

  • Try EndeavourOS i3wm edition. Why am I recommending it? Because it is exactly what u are looking for. You can leave all the tension of configuration keybindings to it, it comes pre configured and you can focus on learning i3wm and getting comfortable with it instead of opening terminal and fixing your OS every second. I still uses it and my own personal config over it since I became good with it I wrote my own config. My i3wm working desktop https://github.com/harshalrathore/my-i3-config

  • arcolinux-i3wm

  • Here is arco's and endeavourOS's config files to get you started. Also this could be a good starting point.

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  • others: you could use something likedm settings, lxappearance to change gtk themes for lightdm and other gtkapps. A lock screen like i3lock. Font awesome or a patched nerd font to get ligatures/gliffs working. I prefer nerdfont as it has more stuff.

  • endeavouros-i3wm-setup

    The beloved EndeavourOS default i3 (has gaps) theme and setup dotfile repo

  • Here is arco's and endeavourOS's config files to get you started. Also this could be a good starting point.

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