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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.

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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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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!

 

 

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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 :thumbsup:

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

 

Excellent :thumbsup:

 

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. 🤓

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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.

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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.

 

 

old-fbsd-desktop.gif

is that a sponge?

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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. 😋

 

 

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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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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.

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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. 🥰

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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. 😎

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