Errors running i3wm in Ubuntu 16.04 after aplying install_ubuntu.sh script

[logoff]

I run the script install_ubuntu.sh in my machine with Ubuntu 16.04. Everything seems to be OK after running the script, with no apparent errors. But when I choose to log in with my user using i3, it returns back to log-in screen.

I attach ~/.xsession-errors generated file xsession-errors.zip.

It seems a weird error of libxcb-cursor.

Do you know how to cope with this crash?

[orestisfl]

Try ../configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-sanitizers.

It's not a great idea to run i3 as your daily driver with sanitizers enabled. Memory used by i3bar & i3 is going to increase quite a bit.

It would be interesting to figure out why the error happens with sanitizers though, it doesn't make any sense to me.

[logoff]

@orestisf1993 where should I use this line? In the script there is only one place where a configure is applied (here) to i3-gaps.

[stav121]

Hello guys,

Sorry for the late response, I've been really busy this week.

That error seems weird to me and I can't reproduce it, so a bit more info on how to reproduce this error would be great. Blind-shooting possible solutions is not the greatest thing to do once it can seriously break your system, so if you could and are willing to do so, please provide some steps on how I (or anyone who wants to help) can reproduce this.

In any case I would strongly recommend that you keep ricing your desktop in the 'oldschool' way or use another tool like for example pywal as an alternative (or any other alternative since they are all great).

I'm going to come back to this project soon, try to fix all the known issues and add more functionality and ability to dynamically import/export themes and maybe integrations with other great applications. But until then there are not many things that can be done.

The project is kinda in a pause because of the huge workload that I have, so without any external help it's going to take some time to get it started again. So as always any contribution, code, help with the comments, even bug-finding like this one is always welcome.

[orestisfl]

@logoff yes, that's the line

[logoff]

@orestisf1993 the change solved the loop in log-in screen, great!! Now I'm able to log-in. It is not running perfectly, but it boots 😄 I have some issues with multiple monitors and other minor things. I will try to debug one by one. Anyway it seems that the original problem is there, we don't know where...

Thank you for your effort!

@unix121 Thank you for the reply. I appreciate your effort in this repo 😉 I will try to play a bit with i3 and all the tools you added in your setup. Hope you have time to improve this and other fancy tools.