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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.

1) (as it conflcts with libev)

2) (dependency for yajl)

3) 4) 4) Since the location of the libev file changed, it reports that it could not fetch the file. Thanks to Gapan for pointing it out:
5) 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.

I have got the x86_64 packages that I created with the process as specified in the above mail (in that case you can just do 'installpkg * in the downloaded directory), but I did not see an option to attach files to this bbs.

Send me a pm if somebody is interested.

ruby and dmenu are available through slapt-get, not slapt-src.

Thank you for pointing out. made changes accordingly in the original post.

this looks interesting, I'm going to give it a try
btw you say you have used other tiling wm, have you tried scrotwm or xmonad? what do you think of those two?

oh, and you made a typo at the homepage of i3 you put ihttp://

@Duncan_Idaho: I tried all scrotwm, xmonad, awesome, and what not. But i3 is the most flexible in my opinion.

And sorry for the typo.