How to install i3 on Manjaro KDE?

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I’m trying to install i3wm on my Manjaro KDE machine.

What I’ve done

sudo pacman -S i3-wm i3lock i3status
echo "exec i3" >> ~/.xinitrc

In my /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, I commented out the twm stuff and also added exec i3

#twm &
#xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
#xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
#xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
#exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login

exec i3

After all that, I restarted my PC but noticed no change. Pressing alt + H with multiple windows running doesn’t seem to do anything either.

I tried running startx but that didn’t work:

$ startx

/usr/lib/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server
^Cxinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: unexpected signal 2
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

sudo startx just makes everything stop and blackout. I restarted my PC after some seconds.

What do I have to do to get i3-wm working here?

Answer

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