9:58 p.m.
Thanks for your help with a starting point. I have begun looking at the
kickstart files to try to figure out what I am looking at and thinking
about how I would change them for sway.
Do you guys have a recommendation for a login manager? Would we want one
with wayland support or is it fine to rely on X for compatibility?
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 3:48 PM Dan Čermák <dan.cermak(a)cgc-instruments.com>
wrote:
Hi Mike & Jan,
Jan Staněk <jstanek(a)redhat.com> writes:
> Hi Mike,
> there is now an i3 spin of Fedora [1], so you can start by looking at
that.
I have CC'd the i3 SIG mailinglist.
> Making the spin official would be a bit longer process, but AFAIK good
> start would be preparing a kickstart file.
> There will be further questions about what to actually include etc.,
> but this could get you started
This is actually the hardest part of the whole process: selecting the
"right"
applications to include, so that you can provide a polished user
experience with sensible defaults.
In case you want to take a look at the technical details, you'll find
the kickstarts for the i3 spin on pagure [1] and the instructions how to
build the isos locally on the docs page [2].
I'd also like to mention that the i3 SIG keeps getting the question "Why
not sway?" pretty frequently, thus I assume that there is definitely a
demand for a sway spin. If you can find enough interested contributors,
then it would be certainly possible to create a sway spin and build upon
the bits and pieces that the i3 SIG learned (and collaborate as much as
possible).
Cheers,
Dan
Footnotes:
[1] https://pagure.io/i3-sig/Fedora-i3-Spin/tree/main
[2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/i3/kickstart/#build-iso