i3-cinnamon

This project enables you to use the i3 tiling window manager (i3-wm) with the Cinnamon desktop environment's session infrastructure.
This repo started as fork of https://github.com/i3-gnome/i3-gnome/

What to expect from this?

With i3-cinnamon, you can expect the following benefits over plain i3:

• Cinnamon screensaver & lockscreen
• Cinnamon power settings
• HiDPI configuration through Cinnamon
• Cinnamon notification daemon
• Autostart of various applications (XDG-Autostart)
• Background image
• GTK theming managed by Cinnamon & changes apply immediately

Known issues

• Cinnamon keyboard shortcuts (including volume/media/brightness keys) are not working
• Cinnamon display management (Not working anymore due to changes in Cinnamon, see #3)
• i3-msg exit and then login in GDM might cause issues. If thats the case, please reboot or restart GDM

Requirements

• i3-wm
• Cinnamon 5.x (For Cinnamon 4.x use release tagged with 4.x)
• GDM or LightDM (might also work with other display managers)

Installation

Arch Linux

For Arch users (or derivates like Manjaro), an AUR package is available easy installation.
Use your favourite AUR helper, e.g:

paru -S i3-cinnamon-git

or

yay -S i3-cinnamon-git

Manual installation

Using make:

1. Clone the repository
2. Navigate to the cloned directory
3. Run make install

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Your help is greatly appreciated.

For small patches and bug fixes, feel free to report an issue or submit a pull request directly.