Hi Mike & Jan, Jan Staněk <jstanek(a)redhat.com&gt; 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

--iso-name sway.iso

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 09:58:27PM -0500, Mike Harter wrote: >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? I have a few recommendations. greetd [0] is a nice login manager daemon that works well for minimal setups, written in Rust. [0]: https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd/ There are multiple login managers utilizing greetd: - https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/gtkgreet - https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/wlgreet - https://github.com/apognu/tuigreet - https://gitlab.com/marcusbritanicus/QtGreet Alternatively, there's Ly [1], which has a textual interface and seems fairly popular. [1]: https://github.com/nullgemm/ly One somewhat obscure option is emptty [2], a "Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY" written in Go. [2]: https://github.com/tvrzna/emptty/ None of the above options is currently packaged for Fedora. All three have example config files to integrate with Systemd. Personally, my current login manager is just the stock `login(1)` program to open my default shell before unlocking my keys with gpg-agent and running `ssh-agent sway`. I understand that this setup is probably not ideal for a spin, but I just threw it out there to illustrate how the choice of login manager is relatively low on the list of things worth losing sleep over. -- /Seirdy

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 <mailto:dan.cermak@cgc-instruments.com>> wrote: Hi Mike & Jan, Jan Staněk <jstanek(a)redhat.com <mailto:jstanek@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 <https://pagure.io/i3-sig/Fedora-i3-Spin/tree/main> [2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/i3/kickstart/#build-iso <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/i3/kickstart/#build-iso> _______________________________________________ Fedora i3 SIG mailing list -- i3wm(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to i3wm-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/i3wm@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure