Happy Friday! 
I saw there was a thread about i3 WM alongside xfce, which works great since both use thunar as file manager and share some apps.
My question, I installed the newest EOS Feb iso KDE plasma, now I like to add a i3wm session so I can switch my workflow between i3 (ego workflow) and kde (working with other people). Any experience how it goes?
Just wondering if there are any conflicts of apps or duplicate app entries that makes i3 not well compatible with KDE? I am not sure anymore if I install i3wm after kde whether it will install the standard apps provided with the i3 iso (meaning I would end up with Dolphin and Thunar for example) or just the barebone wm and it bodes well with plasma apps.
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Most window manger’s won’t conflict each other and DE’s. Because a WM is just a WM. It contains no default apps.
If your gonna use the endeavour OS i3 config’s (and follow the steps on the github) like you said you will end up both dolphin and thunar but this is not that bad…you can just unistall thunar.
You can also use i3 and KDE toghter too. So if you want all of KDE’S notifications service and etc; you can replace KWIN with i3 too.
https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Using_Other_Window_Managers_with_Plasma
Happy Friday to you to. Have a nice weekend!
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Thanks for the nice infos and links!
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You’ll probably want to use kde apps in i3
So you can the env variable in /etc/environment
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=kde
This means the apps will use kde themeing…this only applies if your running i3 seperartely not needed if your just replacing kwin…
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I have to read up on that. I assume you are saying that I could run i3wm in kde plasma not as a separate session. That is intriguing.
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Yes. Youll be replacing kwin so all your notifictions and power management will all come from plasma. This is good if yiu dont want to start from the bottom up.
It does mean obviously you’ll lose kwins window decoration and desktop effects but this can be solved using an external compisitor like picom.
I think I confused with the last bit 
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Ok, I will see. Probably will try to run them separate. Am pretty happy with my kde setup, and like to run the i3 in a separate session with kde theming.
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Alright, reviving an old thread here.
Just found this https://github.com/heckelson/i3-and-kde-plasma
Anyone experience with this setup?
looks nice and seems smart to use a service to replace kwin with i3… as it should be a solid solution.
I tried to do such setup but same as for gnome-i3 I do not see much benefit of a full DE in combination with i3 …
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I’ve tried before.
Bismuth was so much less effort and yielded better results the effort wasn’t worth imo.
Depends, I saw this project but haven’t tried yet. I am used to i3wm and could just use my config file and keybindings I assume. so once setup things should be easily customizable to my liking.
Me in general neither. But I have a setup with KDE and another i3wm session. Some days when in i3, I wish I had some of the convenience of KDE DE, like system settings, changing appearance etc. Then I log in KDE, and and I am missing tiling and my keyboard keybindings, and config file. Don’t know if I would like hybrid though.
dwm works great alongside KDE.
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Should be. Yes. Bismuth is literally just install and check the box. If you want to stop using it, uncheck the box. It follows virtually all plasma bindings anyways, abs those you want to change are as simple as selecting it, abs remap it. Done.
It was enough I stopped putting i3 in everything I could find.
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Literally all of things you just said you miss aren’t missing with Bismuth.
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I will have to check it out. Ideally I would just use my i3wm config file, which I can easily transfer on several of my systems to get set up and running.
That’s where I see a use case for me to use both KDE and i3 together. Will need to setup a virtual box first to test (also bismuth) in case I break things.
Edit: weekend project 
When I set up my laptop I had KDE. I then used the arcolinux tweak tool amd installed I3WM. I now mostley use I3WM and now and then go onto KDE.
Both work fine without any problems.
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I tried it recently too, but was on KDE neon and installed i3wm from scratch. Back to eos though finally!
As long as you use different users for different DEs.