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Installing Slackware, Google Chrome and i3 on Acer

i3

  1. Install Slackware as normal
  2. Get i3 from here https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/desktop/i3/ - which will need some extra dependancies all available from slackbuilds.
  3. Get i3blocks from here https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/desktop/i3blocks/?search=i3blocks
  4. Get i3blocks contrib scripts from here https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks-contrib
  5. Save the git cloned scripts into ~/.i3blocks/
  6. Edit ~/.i3blocks.conf to have correct path to command
  7. Go though each script to see if you are missing commands, or ones you need to add to visudo such as ip so that it can be used by non-root account and adjust the command path as required.
  8. Install dunst so that nm-applet starts straight away and is fully responsive (dunst is a dbus message display client)

Google Chrome

  1. Follow instructions here https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:software:google_chrome (I think you can ignore the part about changing the google-chrome.Slackbuild lzma compression)