[27694] in Athena Bugs
Re: Please add i3 window manager to Athena?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Zinberg)
Sat Apr 18 21:49:59 2015
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Sounds good, thanks Ben!
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
> 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
> >
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr">Sounds good, thanks Ben!<br></div><div class=3D"gmail_extr=
a"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Benjamin=
Kaduk <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:kaduk@mit.edu" target=3D"_bl=
ank">kaduk@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quot=
e" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">=
Hi Ben,<br>
<br>
Thanks for sending this in.<br>
<br>
Looking at the package summaries in Debian and Ubuntu, these do not seem<br=
>
to be terribly large or invasive, so it may be a reasonable addition.<br>
<br>
We'll want to do a bit of experimentation before starting to add them, =
and<br>
with the delays for testing and review, combined with our freeze on<br>
changes after drop date, this change would not be making its way out to<br>
the clusters until the summer at the earliest.<br>
<br>
-Ben<br>
<div class=3D"HOEnZb"><div class=3D"h5"><br>
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, Ben Zinberg wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi Bugs,<br>
><br>
> I am writing to ask if you could please add i3 window manager to the l=
ist<br>
> of available Athena sessions?=C2=A0 I just talked to Anders (cc'd)=
about this<br>
> and he suggested I write to you here.=C2=A0 The Ubuntu package "i=
3" contains the<br>
> window manager and status bar, and also adds an entry to<br>
> /usr/share/xsessions -- so I think all that's needed is to install=
the<br>
> package.=C2=A0 Please let me know if this is possible.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Ben<br>
><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>
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