I3 and plasma 5

Hey,
I just want to ask, if some one tried to use i3 as windowmanager with plasma 5.
I tried first the kde4-way (adding i3.desktop file and select it in kde settings), and it is just ignored as it runs kwin as usal.
then I started a plain i3 and run plasmashell inside, and it opens as some kind of window on mainscreen (have a multihead setup with xrandr) overlaying everthing. If I try to move it to another workspace, it moves to the 2nd screen (even if the workspace is mapped to mainscreen), and stays there from that on.
So is there anyone who tried it, and got it work?
P.S.:
Used following to install kde/plasma5
pacman -S kde-meta #selected kactivities-frameworks as kactivities
pacamn -Rc kdebase-workspace
pacman -S plasma-meta

horsemanoffaith wrote:Is there any way that we could sticky the most-used topics in this section? I use the Unity-for-Arch thread frequently, and I see other threads that are quite large. I see that the ATI thread was made sticky, for good reason. Can we do the same on the larger threads, such as Unity-for-Arch, KF 5 and Plasma, i3, Pantheon Shell, etc.?
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