Archive for the ‘Window Managers’ Category.
October 9, 2009, 10:05 am
Like your large monitor but tire of getting everything to just fit on the screen? I got tired of it a while back and switched to wmii, but now I have been trying out xmonad, another tiling window manager.
A tiling window manager arranges your windows in a grid. This maximizes window sizes and prevents any window from obscuring another. In other words, unless you have transparency going on, or switch to a viewing area with no windows open; you won’t see your desktop. Here’s a screenshot courtesy of pbrisbin.
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October 1, 2009, 6:19 pm
Do you use GDM to log into Openbox on your OpenSuse box? In 11.1 I noticed a little hiccup.
In /usr/share/xsessions the openbox.desktop file resides and the option is there in GDM, and when you login, openbox comes right up. But nothing in your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file gets kicked off.
the application ‘openbox’ does not run autostart.sh, only ‘openbox-session’ does. So as root vim /usr/share/xsessions/openbox.desktop
and changes these lines:
Exec=openbox
TryExec=openbox
to
Exec=openbox-session
TryExec=openbox-session
Write-quit the file, log out and back in. Openbox should kickoff autostart.sh now.
August 30, 2009, 10:22 am
Want your wmii statusbar to give a bit more information than the defaults? Not all that different than how you pull info into Gnu Screen’s statusbar with scripts/backticks, and pretty simple. See below:.
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August 26, 2009, 12:55 pm
Source
So the other day when i was using wifi-select (awesome tool) to connect to a friends hot-spot, i realized “hey! this would be great as an openbox pipe menu.” i’m fairly decent in bash and i knew both netcfg and wifi-select were in bash so why not rewrite it that way?
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August 21, 2009, 11:07 pm
I am clumsy and at times inattentive. Especially after a hard day’s work, I sometimes perform actions on my computer without giving them much thought. I close an application, whereas I only wanted to close the current page; I accidentally save older versions of files and overwrite my latest version in the process; or I reboot my computer when I wanted to log out or shut down. Sometimes my mouse slips and accidentally clicks “shut down” in the Openbox menu, allowing me to see all my unsaved OpenOffice documents disappear before me. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has such moments (or at least I hope so ).
Continue reading ‘Confirm to shut down, reboot or log out in Openbox’ »
August 21, 2009, 1:03 pm
The following is a theme I’ve made/modified by combining DarknessReturns-Clearklooks (both the GTK and Openbox theme that comes with Crunchbang) with Clearlooks Compact GTK and Surreal openbox themes.
The GTK theme borrows elements from Clearlooks Compact to make the DarknessReturns much smaller, though, not quite as small as Clearlooks Compact.
The OpenBox theme is mostly Surreal, but I stole the menu from DarknessReturns’ Openbox theme.
Obligatory Screenshot:
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Download here: http://tuxtraining.com/files/darkness-surreal.tar.gz
Icon Theme is ALLBLACK.
and tar -xzvf darkness-surreal.tar.gz in your ~/.themes folder and chose the theme with you gtk theme changer and obconf.
August 12, 2009, 3:22 pm
Create a entry in Openbox menu with:
feh --rcfile /home/me/.fehrcwall "/home/Me/MyWallpaper"
And create a file with name
.fehrcwall
and put in your Home.
This file is a copy of .fehrc with simple change. Just put this:
# Set the default feh options to be recursive and verbose
feh -qrNA "feh --bg-scale "%f"" --title "Wallpaper" -g 320x240
Now, when you click in openbox menu, an image will appear in small window. You can navigate with your mouse scroll wheel or left/right arrows. To se the wallpaper just press Enter.
August 1, 2009, 8:38 am
This took me a little bit, so i write it down.
In ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc, replace the following line:
xsetroot -solid ‘#0b1014′
with a command to set the background image, such as
eval `cat $HOME/.fehbg` &
(requires feh)
Now i don’t have to bother anymore with the configfile,
feh –bg-center ~/path/to/image sets the backgroundimage
and after a reboot the last shown picture is set.
May 19, 2009, 3:15 pm
awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.
It is primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on its graphical environment.
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