# Swapping Plasma for i3

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**Category:** All WMs\
**Created:** [January 31, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/swapping-plasma-for-i3/50645 "2024-01-31T14:56:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![agrandl](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/agrandl/32/48182_2.png) [@agrandl](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/agrandl)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/swapping-plasma-for-i3/50645/7 "2024-02-01T18:29:55Z")

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Thanks @anon75994754 for the encouragement. I have finally decided to simplify matters for myself. Instead of having to learn another set of keybindings for Plasma, since I already use i3 on my Thinkpad, I took the plunge and followed the [Arch wiki page](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Plasma#Replacing_KWin_service) on replacing Kwin and as @frizzfrizzlol [did to install the Awesome WM](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/cant-change-the-default-window-manager-on-kde-plasma/39304/9) I repeated the same steps following the installation of i3. The only extra step I needed was to switch to LightDM as it gave the cog icon to select i3 as my new window manager.

Now everything seems to be working well thanks to @joekamprad 's hard work on adapting i3 to EndeavourOS. All I need to do now is to bury myself in the i3 User’s Guide for a few days to set up the i3bar and the workspaces as I want. It will be interesting to see if I can get some of the KDE tools to work in i3.

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