I've decided to give #OpenBSD on my laptop another spin. What #windowmanager can you recommend?
I've decided to give #OpenBSD on my laptop another spin. What #windowmanager can you recommend?
One of the things which frustrates me no end, is that every single #Tiling #WindowManager I've ever seen on #Linux is designed with the assumption that "simple" and "pretty" are mutually exclusive.
The closest I've come to "pretty" is XMonad, because at least that allows you to have colour schemes, and to change the width of the (flat) window borders. Most of the others don't even allow that much.
But maybe things have changed since I last looked? Do any of you know of a tiling window manager which is actually PRETTY? Like, 3-dimensional window borders and other things one can customise the look of?
@jdkiser Very nice! As a long term #debian user I never understood the need for contraptions like #kubuntu, #xubuntu or any other distribution that predefined the user interface. You just install Debian and the #desktop_environments or #windowmanager you like (or none... long live the #cli!) and that's it.
I'm grateful for my first contact with the #GNU #Linux world in 1998, in the college #computer lab... despite the #WindowMaker #WindowManager hehehe
The previous year we used the #lab of another #college in the same #university running #Microsoft #WindowsNT 3.51
In 1999 I tried using Linux on my personal computer, and since 2001 I definitively used the #Brazilian #distro #Conectiva (now defunct)
One Open-source Project Daily
Macintosh-like Virtual Window Manager
https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm
#1ospd #opensource #x11 #window-manager #macintosh #x11-wm #xwindows #wm
IceWM 3.8.2 window manager for X Window System adds a new “switchmenu” icesh action, improves window switching, and brings various bug fixes.
https://linuxiac.com/icewm-3-8-2-window-manager-brings-new-icesh-actions/
True minimalism!!! I definitely have to try it
"Mwm: an X11 window manager in 20 lines of code
Is KDE too much for you? GNOME tries to do too much? Xfce still a bit too fancy? Do you need something smaller? Even more minimalist? What about a mere 20 lines of code which provide the absolute barest possible minimum of window management functionality?
You need mwm."
#mvm #windowmanager #unix #linux #bsd #unixITA #linuxITA #guuf #guufITA #guufxmmp #fedilug
https://www.osnews.com/story/142853/mwm-an-x11-window-manager-in-20-lines-of-code/
True minimalism!!! I definitely have to try it
"Mwm: an X11 window manager in 20 lines of code
Is KDE too much for you? GNOME tries to do too much? Xfce still a bit too fancy? Do you need something smaller? Even more minimalist? What about a mere 20 lines of code which provide the absolute barest possible minimum of window management functionality?
You need mwm."
#mvm #windowmanager #unix #linux #bsd #unixITA #linuxITA #guuf #guufITA #guufxmmp #fedilug
https://www.osnews.com/story/142853/mwm-an-x11-window-manager-in-20-lines-of-code/
Miracle-WM 0.6.0 tiling Wayland window manager lands with rounded corners, runtime display management, smoother animations, and more.
https://linuxiac.com/miracle-wm-0-6-released-with-rounded-corners-support/
I'm still amazed by the power / speed yet paradoxical simplicity of FluxBox
I've seen many Window and Desktop Managers in the past decades.
For as far as I remember; this is the only Window manager FluxBox, which enables multiple monitor background choosing in the login requester screens out of the box, I repeat OUT OF THE BOX
Do you know what I did decades ago when Gnome removed easily configurable features? I just went to another Window / Desktop manager combination. I was playing with fvwm Enlightenment Black Box FluxBox & others before KDE & Gnome.
I compiled fvwm from sources way back in the beginning, when Linux had no x Windows at all, when we literally had to build everything from sources even use a disc editor to put magic bytes on the boot sector first on the floppy and then later on on the MBR of the ATA hard drive
IMHO Enlightenment still rocks even today!
Regardless of the reasons of the programmers of Gnome to go that route of in_configurability decades ago, they have many many people like that desktop environment.
Ironic but both the rigid in_configurability of Gnome and the configurability to the pixel of KDE is needed for the planet.
For similar reasons many Legacy Window Managers not only still exist, but are actively maintained, so that they can compile in current POSIX operating systems
I, for example can't understand why people need to use Apple Hardware, which is inferior, in an Apple ecosystem which dominates every move you make, but obviously millions of people in the States who need it exist, otherwise they wouldn't buy a phone that's produced for $10 for $2,000 right?
Reading man pages is important. When you realize that a switch left your long term RAM you usually type man command.
However just opening a manual of a DE you use daily can show you stuff you did not know were (easily) possible
Im working again with a few WM and DE I had left for various reasons.
man is my friend
GNU Screen 5.0.1 Released With Fixes for Multiple Security Vulnerabilities #Screen #TerminalMultiplexer #WindowManager #Linux #Security #Bugfixes #Opensource
https://ostechnix.com/gnu-screen-5-0-1-released/
Day 11 of #31DaysOfFreeBSD
Hello Openbox! Its been awhile.
I'm re-acquainting myself with the Openbox window manager on my new FreeBSD laptop. I was a happy user for a few years before moving to Linux Mint Debian and Cinnamon desktop.
Currently rethinking my config with help from this excellent HOWTO courtesy of @vermaden ...
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/freebsd-desktop-part-12-configuration-openbox/