Improve i3-wm support

[BeanGreen247]

Description

This PR contains update to make creation of armbian i3-wm images possible for the following distributions listed by their code names.

• jammy
• focal
• bookworm
• bullseye

Jira reference number AR-1708

How Has This Been Tested?

So far I have made sure that the images can be built and that they are bootable and functional. Testing was done on real hardware, bare metal.

• Test A - able to create the image in the first place without errors present
• Test B - check if bootable and can be used like a regular i3-wm setup

Checklist:

Not sure what to mark exactly, so leaving most of these blank for now

• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules

[igorpecovnik]

Tested on Odroid N2. Works as expected, 1st config, wallpaper, tried few things ... I think we are ready to roll with this.

[SteeManMI]

What about this change requires this additional package?

[igorpecovnik]

Probably for fast application search when opening application launcher?

[BeanGreen247]

while I was trying to build the image it has a step where it builds the Xapian index, since the package was not originally there, it wasn't installed, therefore failing the build process, it was listed in other desktop config_bases as well, so reused to ensure image builds without any issues

[BeanGreen247]

Probably for fast application search when opening application launcher?

well yes, it generates an axi-cache, enabling a faster command search

[SteeManMI]

Is this a requirement for i3-wm?

[BeanGreen247]

yes as the suckless-tools package includes packages needed to use i3-wm properly, like dmenu used for app/command execution

[SteeManMI]

Is a single PR enough to change this from csc to supported? Who is going to maintain and test this going forward? I would think we would need someone to step up as an official maintainer for this with the responsibility to test for each release. Is that part of the expectation here?

[igorpecovnik]

@BeanGreen247 promised to take care of it.

[SteeManMI]

This got approved quickly before I had time to comment, but I wanted to add the comments above anyway.

[igorpecovnik]

I have merged this fast and more other things as I want to generate images for testing. Perhaps first RC today if everything goes well.

[Tonymac32]

I like it (once tested), curious if there's a reason to stick with i3 as opposed to Sway (Wayland). I've been using Sway since it will work on my i.mx8 boards

[igorpecovnik]

curious if there's a reason to stick with i3 as opposed to Sway (Wayland)

Thomas approached to us asking if he can help out with something and his i3 experiments caught my attention. Our i3 desktop was never completely done ... this is how it started. If someone will pick up Sway, we can switch or have both.