On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Eric Pruitt <eric.pru...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 02:05:58PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: >> Is it possible to run dwm and keep my desktop icons somehow? I have >> most of my projects sort of geographically organized there which sucks >> I know but I'd rather not lose it right now. I found lots of ancient >> pages about this I'm wondering if there's a particular known-good >> modern way. > > Desktops are typically essentially just fancy windows. Nautilus provides > a desktop, and you can launch it by running "nautilus" with no
good to know, thx > arguments. The desktop will appear on whatever tag(s) is currently > active. It will also obscure the dwm bar, but you can still navigate > between tags using keyboard shortcuts. good to know, thx I just made .xinit: $ ls -l .xinitrc -rw-r--r-- 1 bkerin bkerin 9 May 16 14:50 .xinitrc $ cat .xinitrc exec dwm $ I slightly remember doing that 20 years ago or so, fun. But it doesn't seem to work nowadays at least on debian 8.4. I still get gnome even after a reboot. Perhaps the tutorial Launching section should be removed since wrong stuff is worse than nothing. I wouldn't ask dwm to cover how to avoid gnome under all circumstances, maybe just a pointer a good source on the gruesome details would be good. Britton
