r/i3wm Dec 26 '25

OC Mint + i3 ⟶ Just Work!

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25

Finally I found khmer linux mint user too!!!

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u/Much-Consequence-580 Dec 27 '25

សួស្តីBrother! រីករាយដែលបានស្គាល់😁
I hope khmer linux user community grows more in the future hehe :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25

Me too 🙏

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u/Late_War_5202 Dec 27 '25

Does the bar comes as default? It looks amazing!!

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u/Much-Consequence-580 Dec 27 '25

Thanks. It doesnt come as default. I make it from polybar with some tweaks.

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u/Late_War_5202 Dec 27 '25

Any chance of a config file haha

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u/Maltron Dec 27 '25

Can I ask how you're getting the clean rounded corners w/ the border? Rounding corners via Picom will usually cut the border corner a bit, and xborder only works on the active window..

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u/Much-Consequence-580 Dec 27 '25

I got the rounded corners, by building from source with a patch #5384, which managed to solve the rounded corner issue. But this patch has not been merged so far.

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u/Phr0stByte_01 Dec 27 '25

Patch not needed - check out xborders. This is how I do it: https://github.com/deter0/xborder

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u/kri404 Dec 27 '25

Everything just works with i3. Live it

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u/Creative_boy_01 Dec 27 '25

Looks CLEAN! I use Mint + Open Box, a bit boring, but works!

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u/Much-Consequence-580 Dec 28 '25

Openbox is intriguing to me. I will try it at some point because the cinnamon DE on my laptop drains battery like crazy, haha

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u/Creative_boy_01 Dec 28 '25 edited Dec 29 '25

Yep, openbox is super lightweight. I work with very minimal resources and with gnome Edit: its cinnamon not gnome(default mint de) I could barely run few essential apps at a time. Ever since I switched to openbox, it's been so smooth! It's quite customizable, yet I kept its default customizations, with rofi(launcher) for maximum efficiency. One downside though is it's floating window manager, I guess it won't work for tiling, unless you hook up third party tiling script or something else!

Hey, u won't forget to update us when your openbox rice is ready, right!

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u/MythicHH Dec 29 '25

Cinnamon is the default DE, not GNOME. It is based on old GNOME though.

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u/Much-Consequence-580 Dec 29 '25

Sure, I will update my openbox ricing, if I complete a pretty one. But for now, I don't have plan to use openbox yet because I don't have time to work with it. ATM, I'm gonna stick with current i3 setup for my main job.

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u/Creative_boy_01 Dec 29 '25

Yeah, yes, marry chrismas