Window Maker

[wibblewobble]

OK I thought of a windowmaker question.  When I start chrome, I don't get a dockable appicon produced, so I can't dock it in the clip like I do with firefox.  Is there a fix for this?  Is there a way to add an appicon somehow?  Other programs produce an appicon when started but for some reason chrome doesn't.

Edited August 27, 2024 by wibblewobble

[securitybreach]

14 minutes ago, wibblewobble said:

OK I thought of a windowmaker question.  When I start chrome, I don't get a dockable appicon produced, so I can't dock it in the clip like I do with firefox.  Is there a fix for this?  Is there a way to add an appicon somehow?  Other programs produce an appicon when started but for some reason chrome doesn't.

 

Abarbarian should be able to help you as he is an expert with windowmaker.

 

Ha, while searching I found this reddit post and abarbarian answered it there (which gives a link to here lol)

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/windowmaker/comments/1d1hhol/how_come_only_some_programs_can_be_dockable_icons/

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LInk

 

[wibblewobble]

Thanks!

[wibblewobble]

Great, that worked perfectly! 

 

Right click the title bar of the app window and select -- > Attributes

From Attributes click the drop down at the top and change it to "Advanced Options"

From there, select "Emulate Application Icon" -- then hit "apply" and "save" and restart the app --boom, app icon in the dock. You can drag it around wherever you need.  Works great with chrome.

 

Thanks to the rocket scientist who answered!

 

 

Edited August 28, 2024 by wibblewobble

[securitybreach]

34 minutes ago, wibblewobble said:

Great, that worked perfectly! 

 

Right click the title bar of the app window and select -- > Attributes

From Attributes click the drop down at the top and change it to "Advanced Options"

From there, select "Emulate Application Icon" -- then hit "apply" and "save" and restart the app --boom, app icon in the dock. You can drag it around wherever you need.  Works great with chrome.

 

Thanks to the rocket scientist who answered!

 

 

 

Excellent

[abarbarian]

On 8/28/2024 at 12:38 PM, securitybreach said:

 

Excellent

 

Softly softly catchee monkee ! See you are slowly becoming a Window Maker guru .In no time at all you will find yourself installing and running it.

[abarbarian]

On 7/23/2024 at 3:50 PM, wibblewobble said:

I always liked the rasterman's enlightenment work, although I much preferred the spacey look of the first version, which I used to run, but his later stuff is a lot more conventional-looking.  Of course the later versions of e are a lot more polished!  Terminology is a nice job too, worth looking at https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology.md

 

 

I had several goes at E (not the rave drug) back in the day but it kept on crashing so I eventually gave up on it. I was quite taken with terminology and posted about it way back in 2013.

 

https://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?/topic/42331-e17-or-enlightenment-easter-eggs/&do=findComment&comment=371396

 

It was an AUR offering back then however it is now in the Extra section of official Arch programs.

 

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/terminology/

 

Interestingly it only has two dependencies for install and only one needed to run which is very unusual. The man page shows just how impressive a program it is. Too much for my simple needs these days but I remain impressed.

 

https://man.archlinux.org/man/terminology.1.en

 

Now folks will you please get my Window Maker thread back on track

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2 hours ago, abarbarian said:

 

Softly softly catchee monkee ! See you are slowly becoming a Window Maker guru .In no time at all you will find yourself installing and running it.

 

Nah, I am a minimalist tiler, you'll never catch me running a desktop environment.

[crp]

On 7/22/2024 at 1:20 AM, wibblewobble said:

Another screenshot of wmaker desktop, this was also on freebsd, this one is from a few years ago, sadly the gmplayer front end is deprecated now.  This was running on a thinkpad X200.

 

 

is that a sponge?

[Joel]

Being a loooong time user of Window Maker, I didn't expect to learn much reading the first page URL list. I was badly wrong! Thanks a lot for maintaining it @abarbarian.

[abarbarian]

On 9/24/2024 at 11:38 PM, Joel said:

Being a loooong time user of Window Maker, I didn't expect to learn much reading the first page URL list. I was badly wrong! Thanks a lot for maintaining it @abarbarian.

 

Glad to have another member of the Window Maker fan club around here. It was getting rather lonely. If you have any good themes or tips to share don't be shy.

 

They laughed at me but look there are now three of us dedicated Window Maker users. Only another several million users and we will have saved the planets sanity and done our bit for global warming too.

 

 

[Hedon James]

On 9/26/2024 at 3:45 AM, abarbarian said:

 

Glad to have another member of the Window Maker fan club around here. It was getting rather lonely. If you have any good themes or tips to share don't be shy.

 

They laughed at me but look there are now three of us dedicated Window Maker users. Only another several million users and we will have saved the planets sanity and done our bit for global warming too.

 

 

I may not be a WM user, but I'm not a hater either.  It checks a lot of MY boxes, but others are a better fit for me...at least in the present time.  But I do continue to keep an eye on WM as a possible fallback option, if needed.

 

Glad your WM evangelizing has attracted other moths to your flame.  But let's not forget...us BATL "lifers" are your people too, right?!  LOL! 

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Meh, you and your windows... i3 for the epic win  

[Joel]

On 9/26/2024 at 9:45 AM, abarbarian said:

 

Glad to have another member of the Window Maker fan club around here. It was getting rather lonely. If you have any good themes or tips to share don't be shy.

 

They laughed at me but look there are now three of us dedicated Window Maker users. Only another several million users and we will have saved the planets sanity and done our bit for global warming too.

 

 

 

In fact, I have a theming stack that is being finalized. I shall post here where it is finished.

[abarbarian]

On 9/27/2024 at 3:23 PM, Hedon James said:

But let's not forget...us BATL "lifers" are your people too, right?! 

 

Absolutely.

[abarbarian]

20 hours ago, Joel said:

 

In fact, I have a theming stack that is being finalized. I shall post here where it is finished.

 

Neat, something to look forward to.

[Joel]

Finally took the time to write about my current Window Maker configuration.

 

 

Graphite Light theme with round borders, using Picom, and menu icons, using Nerd Fonts.

 

Hope you enjoy it

[abarbarian]

Looks neat. I have no knowledge of or how to use a compositor. Only thing I do not like is the standard icon for the clip I change that to an Arch logo everytime I do an install.

[securitybreach]

Looks nice Joel

 

How long have you been using BSD? I started playing around years ago and realized you basically just used all the linux apps via ports so I lost interest and went back to linux. Granted this was like 10+ years ago.

[securitybreach]

That and I found the partitioning kind of erratic. That was also probably a back then thing if I looked into it again.

[securitybreach]

Ha and your blog post links here, thanks for that.

[Joel]

11 minutes ago, securitybreach said:

Looks nice Joel

 

How long have you been using BSD? I started playing around years ago and realized you basically just used all the linux apps via ports so I lost interest and went back to linux. Granted this was like 10+ years ago.

 

Thanks!

 

Been using various BSD systems since... like late 1990's

[Joel]

9 minutes ago, securitybreach said:

Ha and your blog post links here, thanks for that.

 

Yeah! I read too many of those posts to not advertise about 'em

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8 minutes ago, Joel said:

 

Thanks!

 

Been using various BSD systems since... like late 1990's

 

Very cool