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Hello,

When I run archinstall --config i3.json with the following file:

{
    "audio": "pipewire",
    "bootloader": "systemd-bootctl",
    "custom-commands": [],
    "filesystem": "ext4",
    "gfx_driver": "VMware / VirtualBox (open-source)",
    "harddrive": {
        "path": "/dev/sda"
    },
    "hostname": "i3",
    "kernels": [
        "linux"
    ],
    "keyboard-language": "fr",
    "mirror-region": "France",
    "nic": {
        "NetworkManager": true
    },
    "ntp": true,
    "packages": [],
    "profile": "i3",
    "services": [],
    "superusers": {
        "geo": {
            "!password": "pass"
        }
    },
    "sys-encoding": "utf-8",
    "sys-language": "en_US",
    "timezone": "Europe/Paris",
    "users": {}
}

The installation fails (i3.py line 72).

This seems to be because we cannot pass a parameter to choose between i3-wm and i3-gaps when prompted. https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/blob/8489137b87/profiles/i3.py#L29

I think the script should either accept a parameter to skip the prompt or worst case scenario, default to i3-wm.

Good catch! I'll have a good think about the best solution for this. Just to avoid quick fixes that bites us later. Apologies for the late response, I've been dealing with some personal matters, but I'm back and going through all the old issues that I've missed in my absence.

Don't worry about the response time, the workaround is to explicitly install the packages with the minimal profile, so it's not a huge deal. Keep up the good work :)

Facing the same trouble, I can't manage to apply @geowarin workaround since it doesn't enable the lightdm service. @Torxed is this issue an easy one to solve ? Thus I could submit a PR to fix this

@Torxed we can close this as it should be resolved with the new profile manger