Posts tagged ‘wmii’
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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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.
wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.
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In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.
There are many TWMs to chose from, below covers the most popular ones around.
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