Tiling window managers for Puppy?
Simply put, does anybody have any experience of running a tiling window manager in Puppy.....something like i3, perhaps, or dwm? Any pitfalls I should be aware of, or any tips/tweaks,etc., y'all can suggest?
Mike.
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xwin dwm
Hi Mike - does this have any interest?
I am running the standard dwm executable.I don't like tiled window managers much - too much config, too many hotkeys, not flexible enough..
Mostly I want my windows maximized, 1 window per workspace.not flexible enough
On a fresh FP64 frugal install. I installed dwm after updating the PPM. I edited /etc/windowmanager from jwm to dwm and booted. It does not boot into dwm. Typing the command dwm on console gives "command not found". On find / -type d -iname "dwm*" only finds /usr/share/doc/dwm. There does not seem to be a executible dwm..., can anyone help? Is there a dependency I need to install?
I don't remember if I downloaded a precompiled binary, or if I compiled it from source.
dwm on https://pkgs.org/download/dwm is version 6.1-5
I'm using v 6.2 in BionicPup64
I think it runs in Xenial, Bionic and Fossa.
Attached, my stock standard executable, download ten click to unzip.
Copy it to somewhere like /root/my-applications/bin or /usr/local/bin/
To switch to dwm, kill X (pressing ctrl+alt+backspace should work )
Then type xwin dwm
to restart Xwindows.
To switch back to jwm, kill X then type xwin jwm
You need to read the man page (attached, click to unzip)
There is no menu.
Basically, press alt+1 alt+2 alt+3 etc etc to select a workspace. There are 9 workspaces.
alt+M maximizes all windows in a workspace.
alt+T tiles all windows in a workspace.
alt+F floats all windows.
Conky does not play well with dwm.
I kill conky if I run dwm.
And I kill everything in the jwm tray. dwm does not have a tray. I kill them from a startup script.
I have dmenu installed. I don't often use it. It works well.
thanks for the detailed instructions, I installed your dwm to /usr/local/bin and noticed it needed chmod +x dwm to get it working.
I am trying to install dmenu and the terminal. There does not seem to be dmenu on PPM. Guess urxvt does not work Mod1-Shift-enter, will have to try to install ST terminal (compiling is difficult for me....). Do I need to kill jwm tray since I would have changed to dwm from jwm?
I prefer urxvt, st seems a bit limited. I wrote a script named "st"
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#!/bin/sh
exec urxvt -fg grey -bg black "$@"
I also made a keyboard shortcut to the desktop console icon, Winkey+T
(right click the icon, select Edit Item
)
And Winkey+E as a shortcut to the rox icon.
The bar at the bottom is generated by JWM.
No JWM, no bar and no tray.
So it's pointless to have tray processes running, and possibly using abnormal amounts of cpu power.
I thinks it's easier to kill processes already running than to disable where they are started
so I start dwm from a script, which kills the tray processes, and Conky.
dwm might work with Conky if you edit the configuration header file and recompile, dwm.
dwm can be used with a bar and menu, like lxde's bar or xcfe's bar.
I have a fatdog with the default lxde (openbox) bar and menu, and dwm as the WM.
Attached: some files I use with dwm.
williams2 wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 6:28 pmI prefer urxvt, st seems a bit limited. I wrote a script named "st"
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#!/bin/sh exec urxvt -fg grey -bg black "$@"
Attached: some files I use with dwm.
your script for urxvt and file attachment works well. Now the hard part of getting used to new keybindings....
The 19 best tiling window managers for Linux as of 2021
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I have 4 virtual windows in Rox, and in one of them I run a Vavaldi browser, that can be tiled any way you want.
tallboy