Cannot start i3

Question

So I made a clean i3 install on my laptop and wanted to test some themes (I've only used vanilla i3 on my Debian PC before). I have Ubuntu 18.04 installed.

I followed the instructions here, but now when I try to select i3 from the log in screen, I just get a black screen for a second, followed by the log in screen again.

I tried to fix it using the suggestions here to no avail. I'm out of ideas. What should I do?

Answer 1

Turns out this was caused by my current i3 installation conflicting with i3-gaps. I removed i3-wm and reinstalled and it worked fine.