i3 with GNOME

Before you setup i3 with GNOME, you need to make sure you install GNOME graphical authentication agent and autostarted on login with i3.

 

Install polkit and polkit-gnome

sudo pacman -Syu polkit
sudo pacman -Syu polkit-gnome

Add this lines to your ~/.config/i3/config:

GNOME Settings Daemon

exec --no-startup-id /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-xsettings

gsd-xsettings.

GNOME power manager

exec_always --no-startup-id gnome-power-manager

polkit-gnome

exec --no-startup-id /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

Starts authentication-agent needed to get sudo password check aviable for GUIs needing it.

GNOME Flashback

exec --no-startup-id gnome-flashback

GNOME Flashback integrates more features from GNOME such as full functionality for gnome-control-center:

Gnome-flashback is specifically designed to recover some functionality already moved to mutter or gnome-shell. So, it comes with some features built in but easy to disable if you want to.

Also it helps with function keys including bright screen management, sound and so on out-of-the-box.

Note: this approach (finally) fixes #11 in a simple way.