Allows you to use Qtile in a GNOME-Flashback session. This is essentially i3-gnome-flashback replacing i3 with Qtile.
This has been tested working on GNOME version 40.
For Ubuntu (19.10), ensure prerequisites are installed:
sudo apt install qtile gnome-flashback build-essential
Then install qtile-gnome-flashback:
sudo make install
For other distributions, clone this repository and run make install with root privileges.
To understand how the files in this repo work to initialize an Qtile and GNOME session, refer to this GNOME wiki on session management.
The default session for Qtile-GNOME-Flashback installs a set of configuration defaults for GSettings/dconf, e.g.:
- Desktop icon handling is disabled for GNOME Flashback, due to incompatibilities with Qtile, and control of the root window is instead given to
gnome-control-center, which handles setting the user-defined wallpaper, among other things.
Setup for these configuration defaults is handled via GSettings overrides, which are described in further detail here and here.