issue solved had to . ~/.profile from .xsession obvious in retrospect. Thanks for all the help
> On 27 Mar 2019, at 18:35, Normen Wohner <nor...@wohner.eu> wrote: > > New Issue, after install and setup neither dmenu nor the statusbar show up... > anybody ever experienced this behavior? > I played around and I can start both manually. > >> On Mar 27, 2019, at 9:59 AM, Normen Wohner <nor...@wohner.eu> wrote: >> >> I installed i3 with pkg_add, >> yet don't understand how >> to call it from xenodm. >> >> I tried replacing the stock >> ${exec_path}/bin/fvwm >> with /usr/local/bin/i3 >> inside xenodm's Xsession, >> but that didn't help much. >> >> I then wrote the typical >> exec i3 >> into .xinitrc in my /root >> nothing. >> >> Anybody here using i3? >> >