i3-cinnamon

Allows you to use i3-wm with Cinnamon Session infrastructure.

What to expect from this?

With i3-cinnamon you get along with i3 (Window Manager) and GNOME (Desktop Environment) instead of metacity (the default window manager of GNOME). See more.

• Cinnamon screensaver & lockscreen
• Cinnamon power settings
• Cinnamon display management
• HiDPI configuration through Cinnamon
• Cinnamon notification daemon
• Autostart of various applications (XDG-Autostart)
• Background image

Known issues

• Cinnamon keyboard shotcuts (includes volume/media/brightness keys)
• i3 exit + login in gdm might cause some issues, login after reboot works fine

Requirements

• i3-wm
• Cinnamon
• GDM or LightDM (might also work with others)

Installation

• For Arch users see the AUR package for a more easy installation.

Using make:

• download the repo.
• on the terminal go to the repo directory.
• make install

Contributing

We accept contributions. Any help is greatly appreciated.

For smaller patches and bug fixes just go ahead and either report an issue or submit a pull request.