I've had used i3 from time to time in the past but I was still a staunch supporter of xmonad, so when I got a new work laptop in late 2017 I of course tried to use xmonad, as I have been since early 2012. But for some reason it didn't really work on Ubuntu 16.04 (neither 0.12 nor 0.13) so I switched to i3.
There's one feature I was missing though, in multimonitor mode I absolutely need the screens to switch places. Gladly someone wrote a helpful addon, but I had to poke around a bit.
Anyway, now it was time to upgrade my work laptop to Ubuntu 18.04 and after having a look at the live cd I was very impressed with Kubuntu, so I wanted to try that. But there's a dilemma: Plasma is no tiling wm.
So I went to look around bit and found some configs, which I had to modify a little and now it seems to work a bit. (Source 1 and Source 2)
The key lines in the i3 config file seem to be:
exec --no-startup-id wmctrl -c Plasma
for_window [title="Desktop — Plasma"] kill; floating enable
for_window [class="plasmashell"] floating enable
for_window [class="Plasma"] floating enable
for_window [title="plasma-desktop"] floating enable
for_window [class="Plasmoidviewer"] floating enable
# Float by type
for_window [window_role="pop-up"] floating enable
for_window [window_role="task_dialog"] floating enable
for_window [window_type="dialog"] floating enable
for_window [window_type="menu"] floating enable
#focus_follows_mouse yes
no_focus [class="plasmashell"]
no_focus [window_role="pop-up"]
no_focus [window_type="notification"]
focus_on_window_activation none
To get xmonad's screen switching behaviour I had to comment thse lines:
#bindsym Mod4+1 workspace 1
and replace them with these:
set $x_switch exec --no-startup-id ~/.config/i3/i3-wk-switch/i3-wk-switch.py
bindsym Mod4+1 $x_switch 1
bindsym Mod4+2 $x_switch 2
bindsym Mod4+3 $x_switch 3
bindsym Mod4+4 $x_switch 4
bindsym Mod4+5 $x_switch 5
bindsym Mod4+6 $x_switch 6
bindsym Mod4+7 $x_switch 7
bindsym Mod4+8 $x_switch 8
bindsym Mod4+9 $x_switch 9
bindsym Mod4+0 $x_switch 10
Here's my current config without the above modifications at the time of writing.