Having problems changing windows manager

[pling]

I'm trying to use a tiling manager i3 instead of OpenBox. I've tried replacing openbox with i3 in the lxde desktop manager dialog via settings, and putting an .xinitrc with "exec i3" in my home directory. Neither has any effect unless I kill X and then restart it! Suggestions? Both these seem like they're "suppposed" to work...

[trulan]

I use Compiz for my window manager (replacing Openbox) and to get that to work I had to edit:
/home/<username>/.config/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf

Replace 'openbox-lxde' with the correct line to start your alternate window manager.

Code:

[Session]
window_manager=openbox-lxde

I'm pretty sure this is the file that needs to be changed.  There is also a system-wide config file for this in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf, but I don't think you need to edit that one to change the window manager for your user.  I'm not sure why the Desktop Manager gui fails to properly set an alternate window manager, (I guess that would be an LXDE bug), but I do know I had to manually edit the config file to get Openbox to quit starting.

[pling]

Trulan - thanks for the fast reply! I should have thought of looking under .config. The wm seems to be set in lxsession/config and lxsession/desktop.conf so I'll edit both.

[pling]

...Well, that sort of worked. i3 runs, but it doesn't tile properly. I think I'll try putting a kill and start in xinitrc next.