Install the i3 tiling window manager from Fedora 23 Minimal

It was mentioned in the #fedora channel on Freenode’s IRC server that it is difficult to get the i3 tiling window manager working from a Minimal Fedora 23 install.  I ran through the steps myself and narrowed down what was needed to get this to work.

1. Install Fedora 23 using the Minimal selection on the Server ISO
2. Post-install, do the following:
   • dnf install i3 i3status dmenu i3lock xbacklight feh conky xterm sddm mesa-dri-drivers xorg-x11-drv-evdev xorg-x11-drv-fbdev xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse xorg-x11-drv-synaptics
   • systemctl set-default graphical.target
   • systemctl isolate graphical.target

The above process should bring you to an SDDM login screen where you can select the Window Manager you wish to use (top-left) and then log in.

SystemD Analyze Blame

If you want your boot times to be quicker, consider removing things like FirewallD, LVM and NetworkManager as these things cause the most delay at boot:

sudo systemd-analyze blame

1.119s firewalld.service
584ms dev-mapper-fedora\x2droot.device
332ms plymouth-start.service
250ms lvm2-monitor.service
187ms systemd-journal-flush.service
177ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
125ms systemd-udevd.service
84ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
70ms fedora-readonly.service
66ms user@995.service
62ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
53ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
52ms systemd-user-sessions.service
47ms plymouth-quit-wait.service
46ms systemd-journald.service
44ms kmod-static-nodes.service
41ms plymouth-quit.service
39ms NetworkManager.service
38ms systemd-sysctl.service
35ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
34ms dev-mqueue.mount
34ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-*******.service
34ms systemd-logind.service
29ms tmp.mount
25ms systemd-remount-fs.service
21ms user@0.service
21ms auditd.service
20ms boot.mount
20ms plymouth-read-write.service
18ms lvm2-pvscan@252:2.service
16ms dev-hugepages.mount
15ms dracut-shutdown.service
15ms systemd-random-seed.service
13ms systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service
7ms systemd-fsck-root.service
6ms dev-mapper-fedora\x2dswap.swap
4ms systemd-update-utmp.service
1ms sys-kernel-config.mount