#Selecting I3 As Desktop Brings Me To Cinnamon

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open summit
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Hi folks, I'm playing around with a window tiling manager as I'm really interested in going keyboardless.

Coming across i3, and installing it via sudo apt install i3, I'm well aware that I need to reboot, and when loging in, select i3 as my desktop.

However, I noticed that if I were to log out, and use Cinnamon again, using i3 will bring me back into Cinaamon.

This is the output of running cat /usr/share/xsessions/i3.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=i3
Comment=improved dynamic tiling window manager
Exec=i3
TryExec=i3
Type=Application
X-LightDM-DesktopName=i3
DesktopNames=i3
Keywords=tiling;wm;windowmanager;window;manager;
amber bolt
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I am not sure it will do what I want it to do, but try. I know this work with the wayland replacement - sway

open summit
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Interesting giving that a shot right now

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Ok so that took me to a CLI

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Logged in, but after logging in I can't really go back to Cinnamon if I want to

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Running i3 gives me some error saying that there is no display available

amber bolt
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hence trying to start i3 fails and it falls back to cinnamon

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you can enter cinnamon by pressing (iirc) ctrl alt f1

open summit
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The wiki table of contents didn't have a specified startup guide, and it works on a fresh boot

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I can exit, and re-enter i3, but upon starting Cinnamon once, it seems to just not work at that point, making me think this is something else causing the issue

amber bolt
open summit
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Specifically wayland?

amber bolt
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yes

open summit
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Is Wayland supposed to look any different

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I'm not seeing any changes, this may be just my system running Cinnamon again

amber bolt
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and you can't enter regular cinnamon?

open summit
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No, seems like it's just always enterring regular Cinnamon regardless of what I choose

amber bolt
open summit
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Yeah there sounds like there's some miscommunication going on. I'm going to try to retype the situation

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On fresh boot: Starting i3 works.

Exiting i3, and re-entering i3 still works.

Logging out of i3, and I start Cinnamon default, everything loads correctly

Supposing I want to log out of Cinnamon, and re-enter i3, (i3 is selected), I'm back onto Cinnamon

amber bolt
open summit
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No worries all good

amber bolt
open summit
open summit
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Ok, turns out that if I were to run

sudo systemctl reboot display-manager

I can have i3 running and not have it "default" back to Cinnamon. Still not an ideal workaround as I hoped it'd be more seamless