Hi all.
I'm stumped, I tried installing i3 on my VM with MATE and it works fine, tiling is working in the VM. I then tried to do the same set up on my actual desktop following the same steps and it doesn't change from Marco to i3 like it did in the VM.
The steps I followed are here:
https://mattgreer.dev/blog/mate-and-i3/
and the only thing I had to do different is change the ~/user/.config/i3/config file there instead of the one in /etc/.
What else do I need to change to get i3 on my actual desktop?
Code:
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