Instalação do i3wm no Linux Mint - i3 4.23 / Install i3wm Linux Mint - i3 4.23

 1 - Baixe o i3wm i3-4.23.tar.xz
link: https://i3wm.org/downloads/

2 - descompacte o arquivo tar.xz
$ tar -xvf i3-4.23.tar.xz

3 - entre no diretorio descompactado
$ cd i3-4.23

4 - crie um diretorio build
$ mkdir build

5 - entre no diretorio build
$ cd build

6 - instale o meson
$ sudo apt-get install meson

7 - instale o build-essential
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

8 - instale as dependencias
$ sudo apt install libstartup-notification0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev \
libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-util-dev libxcb-cursor-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev \
libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-xrm-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev libyajl-dev \
libpcre2-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libev-dev libc6-dev

9 - rode o comando meson
$ meson ..

10 - execute o comando ninja
$ ninja
$ sudo ninja install

11 - sudo vim /usr/share/xsessions/i3.desktop

12 - adicione no arquivo
[Desktop Entry]
Name=i3
Comment=Improved dynamic tiling window manager
Exec=i3
TryExec=i3
Type=Application
X-LightDM-DesktopName=i3
DesktopNames=i3
Keywords=tiling;wm;windowmanager;window;manager;

12 - restart lightdm
sudo systemctl restart lightdm

 

OBS: o i3lock e i3blocks podem ser instalados facilmente com o comando
$ sudo apt-get install i3lock i3blocks