wa4chq Posted February 16, 2023 Posted February 16, 2023 1 hour ago, abarbarian said: The 6th one down is from war torn Ukraine made only 11 months ago. Well done to those folks and I hope they can fight their way to peace soon. I almost nodded off watching the 6th one down but around the 03:10 mark, things starting getting interesting. 1 Quote
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abarbarian Posted April 8, 2023 Author Posted April 8, 2023 (edited) Make neofetch show a correct entry for WM=WindowMaker - 2023 For all the thousands of Window Maker users out there I have found a way to make neofetch show an entry for " WM= ". You can set neofetch through the ~/.config file to show your " WM ", Quote info "OS" distro info "Model" model info "WM" wm info "WM Theme" wm_theme #info "DE" de #info "Theme" theme #info "Icons" icons info "Uptime" uptime info "Kernel" kernel info "Shell" shell However the wm entry is left blank when you start neofetch. Quote OS: Arch Linux Model: Z170X-Gaming 7 WM: Uptime: 56 mins Kernel: 6.2.10-arch1-1 To make your WindowMaker name to show you can add this to your .bashrc, Quote export WM=windowmaker this will show up as Quote Model: Z170X-Gaming 7 WM:wmaker Uptime: 56 mins Kernel: 6.2.10-arch1-1 Now that is better than nothing but not quite up to the mark for me. However if you go to /usr/bin/neofetch at around line 1897 you will see Quote # Rename window managers to their proper values. [[ $wm == *WINDOWMAKER* ]] && wm=wmaker [[ $wm == *GNOME*Shell* ]] && wm=Mutter all you have to do is alter it to this Quote # Rename window managers to their proper values. [[ $wm == *WINDOWMAKER* ]] && wm=WindowMaker [[ $wm == *GNOME*Shell* ]] && wm=Mutter an hey presto you have a proper entry in neofetch. just my small contribution for the millions of Window Maker users out there. Edited February 20, 2024 by abarbarian 1 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted May 11, 2023 Author Posted May 11, 2023 Just a small update to the post above. 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted June 20, 2023 Author Posted June 20, 2023 Just a couple of screenshots from Slackware users. The thing I notice most in all the Window Maker screenshots I have ever seen is the individuality of the images used for the Dock icons. 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted June 27, 2023 Author Posted June 27, 2023 (edited) BUTTONMAKER - Make a dockapp with icon for any program. I have a new keyboard with led lights. You can set different profiles with it using openrgb. So my aim is to make a dockapp that will allow me to change the lights just with a click. I run my games on workspace 2 on my Arch Window Maker set up. I have one dockapp for steam and the aim was to have several dockapps with different light settings for different games. I know you can open up orenrgb's gui and do that by changing the profile but I am lazy and would rather accomplish that with just the one click from a dockapp. You can get a whole load of dockapps from https://github.com/window-maker/dockapps I chose buttonmaker https://github.com/window-maker/dockapps/tree/master/buttonmaker If you just type buttonmaker on the cli you get buttonmaker version: 0.1 By Renan Vedovato Traba <rvt10@inf.ufpr.br> -c, --command [CMD] which command will be called -i, --icon [ICON] icon displayed -s, --size [SIZE] size of the icon double click to run CMD right click to exit eg: buttonmaker -c sudo apt-get update -i TerminalGNUstep.tiff -s 32 which is quite handy as you have all the information you need to run the thing. You will notice that images appear to need to be in .tiff format. I tried with .xmp and .jpg as I have a load of them on the pc. They did not work but are easy enough to convert with ImageMagick like so, convert Brain.xpm -resize 64x64 Brain.tiff Easy enough. I p[laced the converted image in the home folder where I made and installed buttonmaker. I did this as I could not figure out where else to place it. Next I ran buttonmaker from the cli with this, buttonmaker -c "xterm -e openrgb -p home.orp -i Brain.tiff -s 64" This opened up a dockapp which I added to my CLIP an set it like so Notice that I have the middle button set as well as the left mouse button. Also I changed the command. Originally the dock settings showed buttonmaker -c "xterm -e openrgb -p home.orp -i Brain.tiff -s 64" changed to xterm -e openrgb -p home.orp So far this setup survives a reboot and it works ok. Left click gets me to my home lights and middle click gets me to my FPS light profile. This is still a work in progress as I would like another dockapp with a left/middle choice for lights as I have several different games on the go and it depends on my mood as to which I waste time away with. I'll post back when I have done more testing. For now though I am happy to be a colourful bright spark. Edited July 3, 2023 by abarbarian Spellcheck 1 Quote
sunrat Posted June 28, 2023 Posted June 28, 2023 It's intriguing how obsessed you are with tweaking the visuals of your system. I installed Debian with KDE Plasma in Feb 2021 and have barely tweaked it visually since March 2021. Better things to do! Quote
abarbarian Posted June 28, 2023 Author Posted June 28, 2023 8 hours ago, sunrat said: It's intriguing how obsessed you are with tweaking the visuals of your system. I installed Debian with KDE Plasma in Feb 2021 and have barely tweaked it visually since March 2021. Better things to do! Hmmmmm. Yer right I guess I do come across as slightly obsessed. Playing around with Window Maker is a fun and challenging a puzzle to solve. Figuring out how to do this that and the other keeps my old grey cell ticking over. I like to customise things I own to make them look and work in a way that fits me. Then I like to keep them that way and move on to the next project. If my body was in better shape or I had more loot I would probably only use a pc rarely or possibly never. 1 Quote
Hedon James Posted June 28, 2023 Posted June 28, 2023 On 2/16/2023 at 11:50 AM, wa4chq said: I almost nodded off watching the 6th one down but around the 03:10 mark, things starting getting interesting. Indeed! I caught that too! So interesting, in fact, that I may have to watch it again. LOL! Quote
raymac46 Posted June 28, 2023 Posted June 28, 2023 I also am an "OK Boomer" type that needs to keep my brain working. When it comes to DEs though I generally just go with the defaults and use one of my photos for the wallpaper. The exception is Debian where I like GNOME and its associated apps but I switched GDM to LightDM, added a dock at the bottom, and changed "Activities" to "Applications" and "Places" (sorta like old GNOME2.) Gnome Shell Extensions make that type of tweaking easy enough. 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted June 28, 2023 Author Posted June 28, 2023 6 hours ago, Hedon James said: Indeed! I caught that too! So interesting, in fact, that I may have to watch it again. LOL! I must be missing something as the 6th one down is from a chap in Indonesia. Quote
wa4chq Posted June 28, 2023 Posted June 28, 2023 46 minutes ago, abarbarian said: I must be missing something as the 6th one down is from a chap in Indonesia. I think something changed.....what had been there isn't. Quote
abarbarian Posted June 29, 2023 Author Posted June 29, 2023 13 hours ago, wa4chq said: I think something changed.....what had been there isn't. Odd indeed.As far as I can remember I have only added a couple more videos to the list and can not remember taking any out. Quote
wa4chq Posted June 29, 2023 Posted June 29, 2023 3 hours ago, abarbarian said: Odd indeed.As far as I can remember I have only added a couple more videos to the list and can not remember taking any out. Hmmm...maybe the order changed when you added the new ones. Quote
wa4chq Posted June 29, 2023 Posted June 29, 2023 I don't think this was the one, but it'll work....lol "Hi...my name is I Candy" Quote
Hedon James Posted June 29, 2023 Posted June 29, 2023 1 hour ago, wa4chq said: I don't think this was the one, but it'll work....lol "Hi...my name is I Candy" yeah....that's not it. but it's interesting wallpaper! LOL! 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted June 30, 2023 Author Posted June 30, 2023 (edited) On 6/29/2023 at 1:47 PM, Hedon James said: yeah....that's not it. but it's interesting wallpaper! LOL! Ah yes the excellent Tai Chi reclining breathing exercise. The moving wallpaper was just an exercise to see if I could. It took some effort but was in the end a success.In practice in real time use I found all the moving wallpapers a tad distracting. So I changed focus and played around with xscreensaver. Initially just customising the program with its own tool set. You can fairly easily make some neat customised screensavers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hOSRT1yLM0 Jumping to 16 mins in misses out the boring crud. This led me to see if I could incorporate the moving wallpapers to act as screensavers. I have managed this with just one small glitch. So now I have a series of rather strange screensavers that loop through instead of the normal pipes or star scapes you usually get. This is still a work in progress and I hope to work more on this in the autumn and winter. One part of that effort is to try and use the almost 1000 tux icons I have collected as a moving screensaver. This is just a quick and dirty start https://mega.nz/file/ux90EYTQ#sLIl0JId3rRbYDCbBzm_XV6k_ikJQVH4JDCYvi09YjU When the link opens in Mega you may just get a static image showing , I had to click on the image to start it running. More detail on giffs as screensavers here Edited July 3, 2023 by abarbarian Quote
abarbarian Posted August 12, 2023 Author Posted August 12, 2023 (edited) Launch multiple instances of XTerm from one appicon? Thanks for the update by Sara C. Pickett: The easiest way to accomplish this is to open XTerm as normal, Then go to the Attributes menu Then go to Application Specific and select no application icon for XTerm. Then right-click on the docked appicon and select Settings. Change the Application Path with arguments section to xterm -bg black -fg white or /bin/sh -c "exec xterm &" or /usr/bin/xterm I added to the Command for middle-click launch, xterm -bg white -fg black -e htop Now I can open multiple xterms from the dock app with a left click and am still able to open htop from a middle click. Also did the same for pcmanfm and thunar, /bin/sh -c "exec pcmanfm &" ---- left click /usr/bin/thunar ------ middle click ALSO Holding the Ctrl key while clicking the docked icon allows you to launch it multiple times. Don't you just love Window Maker. Edited March 16, 2024 by abarbarian 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted August 12, 2023 Author Posted August 12, 2023 (edited) Window Maker Live Quote Window Maker Live is a Debian-based Linux distribution that applies the Window Maker window manager as the default graphical user interface and integrates well-known open-source components in an attractive and usable user interface. The distribution includes integrated GNOME components, as well as the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird mail client both of which are enhanced with essential productivity add-ons. Window Maker Live Linux Distribution Quote The Window Maker Live DVD is an installable Linux live ISO, and is based mostly on the recently released “Bookworm” branch of Debian. It relies on the Window Maker window manager as its default graphical user interface. It can also be considered as an alternative installation medium for Debian/Bookworm. As such, wmlive is fully compatible with and relies on the official Debian/Bookworm repositories for security updates and bug fixes. Here is an english version of the video. Window maker Live Home site About time too the last update to this distro was in 2017. I have only watched the video but am impressed with the way they have set up the menus etc. Neat job. Edited August 12, 2023 by abarbarian 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted August 17, 2023 Author Posted August 17, 2023 23 hours ago, raymac46 said: Pretty awful review. Modern day trashy content and delivery full of wrong facts and inaccuracies. 1 Quote
securitybreach Posted August 17, 2023 Posted August 17, 2023 7 hours ago, abarbarian said: Pretty awful review. Modern day trashy content and delivery full of wrong facts and inaccuracies. Well that sucks. Maybe you should make a worthy one Quote
abarbarian Posted August 18, 2023 Author Posted August 18, 2023 13 hours ago, securitybreach said: Maybe you should make a worthy one Don't know about worthy but I was planning to do some Window Maker videos in the late autumn. Bit busy at the moment. 1 Quote
raymac46 Posted August 18, 2023 Posted August 18, 2023 I am sure any review you make will be more valid considering your years of experience with Window Maker. Quote
abarbarian Posted August 18, 2023 Author Posted August 18, 2023 32 minutes ago, raymac46 said: I am sure any review you make will be more valid considering your years of experience with Window Maker. Thanks. I am not a WM ninja as there are still some basic things that baffle me about running WM. Hopefully any videos I do will at least have accurate facts in them. Several comments about the video mention his factual inaccuracy. I have no problems with folk not liking or making fun of WM but it gets right up me nose when folk spread fud or false facts. This is my comment about the video. Quote Pretty awful review about a fine os and a fine WM. Seems like the presenter can not read as it states on a page he was looking at that the last release of Window Maker Live was in 2017 . Presenter states that he has been on the Window Maker site and that Window maker has he thinks releases every year,he definitely can not read and understand then as, Window Maker 0.96.0 was released on August 5th 2023,Window Maker 0.95.9 was released on April 4th 2020,Window Maker 0.95.8 was released on March 11th 2017.Window Maker 0.95.7 was released on August 2nd 2015.Looks like his ability to count is on the fritz as well as the gap between 2023 and 2020 is 3 in my world. I might have had some respect for the presenter if he had called this " Making Fun of an old OS and WM ". This guy makes a good point about this video which I feel can be applied to many articles and videos about linux theses days. Quote ******wafflez 1 day ago (edited) Kinda confused with all of these distro "reviews?", you're not really looking at system internals or how multiple distributions really differentiate themselves from one another; rather we're just seeing a stock desktop, you run the same few commands "htop, uname, etc", and then proceed to just looking at the wallpapers. There's nothing "wrong" with any of that, but this is all very very beginner Linux content. For example if I'm not mistaken, even a review for Ubuntu, and do correct me if I'm wrong, but you didn't even point out the most significant option of installing the system on zfs, which is baked into a couple Ubuntu releases. Ig all I'm saying is every distribution works a little differently under the hood, instead of touching on those internals, we're looking at things like themes and wallpapers and what apps come preinstalled.....which are more or less the same on every distribution.. 1 Quote
crp Posted August 18, 2023 Posted August 18, 2023 i just wish the name would change. i still read it as Widow Maker. 1 Quote
Hedon James Posted August 19, 2023 Posted August 19, 2023 12 hours ago, crp said: i just wish the name would change. i still read it as Widow Maker. Well, after 30 years of customizing desktops with THAT window manager (which has been around since the earliest days of Slackware & Debian), I'm sure there's more than a few guys who have died in that time period....and all were tinkering with their desktops as a never-ending hobby/quest. So technically, Window Maker IS indeed a Widow Maker?! 1 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted August 22, 2023 Author Posted August 22, 2023 On 8/12/2023 at 1:09 PM, abarbarian said: Window maker Live Home site About time too the last update to this distro was in 2017. I have only watched the video but am impressed with the way they have set up the menus etc. Neat job. Attempted to run this from Ventoy and it failed to run. As did EasyOS and MX-23. FoxClone ran perfectly from the same Ventoy usb stick. I guess one out of four is not too bad. Quote
crp Posted August 27, 2023 Posted August 27, 2023 On 8/22/2023 at 3:50 AM, abarbarian said: Attempted to run this from Ventoy and it failed to run. As did EasyOS and MX-23. FoxClone ran perfectly from the same Ventoy usb stick. I guess one out of four is not too bad. Ventoy is great but it does do some 'workarounds' that some OS's will just not allow. (i put Ventoy on a SSD and have a partition set aside for persistent storage and some program installs. If you do troubleshooting, really a must have .) Quote
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