[27693] in Athena Bugs
Re: Please add i3 window manager to Athena?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Sat Apr 18 18:00:49 2015
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:00:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Ben Zinberg <bzinberg@mit.edu>
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Hi Ben,
Thanks for sending this in.
Looking at the package summaries in Debian and Ubuntu, these do not seem
to be terribly large or invasive, so it may be a reasonable addition.
We'll want to do a bit of experimentation before starting to add them, and
with the delays for testing and review, combined with our freeze on
changes after drop date, this change would not be making its way out to
the clusters until the summer at the earliest.
-Ben
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, Ben Zinberg wrote:
> Hi Bugs,
>
> I am writing to ask if you could please add i3 window manager to the list
> of available Athena sessions? I just talked to Anders (cc'd) about this
> and he suggested I write to you here. The Ubuntu package "i3" contains the
> window manager and status bar, and also adds an entry to
> /usr/share/xsessions -- so I think all that's needed is to install the
> package. Please let me know if this is possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
