i3 (
http://i3.zekjur.net/) is the wonderful tiling window manager with a world of flexibility and resource-conserving. After testing all floating and tiling window managers with arch, debian and ubuntu, I finally am satisfied with the flexibility of i3, what an awesome window manager! I installed i3 in Salix 13.1.2 from SlackBuilds using slapt-src. Hopefully, this helps others.
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(as it conflcts with libev)
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(dependency for yajl)
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Since the location of the libev file changed, it reports that it could not fetch the file. Thanks to Gapan for pointing it out:
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#cd /usr/src/slapt-src/libraries/libev
#wget http://dist.schmorp.de/libev/Attic/libev-3.9.tar.gz
#chmod +x /libev.SlackBuild
#./libev.SlackBuild
#installpkg /tmp/libev-3.9-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz
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#slapt-src -i i3
#installpkg /usr/src/slapt-src/desktop/i3/i3-3.e_bf1-x86_64-3_SBo.txz
And now i3 is ready to use.
Hope this helps. Please don't miss to read the documentation at
http://i3.zekjur.net/docs/userguide.html for further tweaking. It is indeed comprehensive.