On 2021-07-02 at 12:01, Siard wrote:
> The Wanderer:
>
>> What package, or packages, set(s) up the x-window-manager alternative
>> and define(s) symlinks for it?
>
> To set the default x-window-manager, you can use:
>
># update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
As far as I'm aware, tha
The Wanderer:
> What package, or packages, set(s) up the x-window-manager alternative
> and define(s) symlinks for it?
To set the default x-window-manager, you can use:
# update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
To only see the available (i.e. installed) x-window-managers:
$ update-a
On 2021-07-02 at 11:39, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 11:14:22AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> What package, or packages, set(s) up the x-window-manager
>> alternative and define(s) symlinks for it?
>
> I take it from the content that I snipped that you're looking for a
> list
On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 11:14:22AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> What package, or packages, set(s) up the x-window-manager alternative
> and define(s) symlinks for it?
I take it from the content that I snipped that you're looking for a list
of window managers, and not a technical explanation of how
On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 11:14:22 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote:
> What package, or packages, set(s) up the x-window-manager alternative
> and define(s) symlinks for it?
>
> I'm building a new computer, and setting up my (Debian-based) preferred
> configuration on it, and I've just discovered that ther
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:46PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> Paul, I too find having a desktop unnecessary. I do prefer using the
> command line most of the time because it's quicker. By the time I reach for
> my mouse, I've already wasted a good second when I could have type 5 or
> more charac
On Friday 08 November 2002 19:08, David Z Maze wrote:
> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:46PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> >> Now for my next question, do desktops such as gnome and kde require a
> >> specific version of window manager?
> >
> > Not that I kno
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:46PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
>> Now for my next question, do desktops such as gnome and kde require a
>> specific version of window manager?
>
> Not that I know of.
I've heard rumors that KDE only really works well with kw
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:46PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> So window manager is optional but not really necessary?
Optional but rather necissary.
> Now for my next question, do desktops such as gnome and kde require a
> specific version of window manager?
Not that I know of.
--
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-- Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Friday, 08 November 2002, 01:01 PM -0500):
> >From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: X - window manager - desktop
> >Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:06:00 -0800
> >
> >On F
From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X - window manager - desktop
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:06:00 -0800
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:35:33AM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> the X? What exactly is a window manager? twm, enlightment, sawfish ... I
The windo
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:35:33AM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> the X? What exactly is a window manager? twm, enlightment, sawfish ... I
The window manager handles things like window title bars, resizing,
and other basic window elements. You can run X without a window
manager, though you won't be
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 10:41, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> Help please,
>
> I am using xdm and icewm, (but I suspect that my problem relates to
> other window managers as well). I start up several applications at
> login, using .xsession but these all start up in the first virtual
> screen. Is there any
On 25-Jun-2002 Dave Whiteley wrote:
> Help please,
>
> I am using xdm and icewm, (but I suspect that my problem relates to
> other window managers as well). I start up several applications at
> login, using .xsession but these all start up in the first virtual
> screen. Is there any way in which
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:02:24AM +0200, S?bastien Valsemey wrote:
> I'd like to have help on an error message I obtain when launching my
> X-Session.
Please read the archives, as this has been discussed a *lot* recently.
Either upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0-8, or remove the double quotes around
$REAL
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:56:04AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote:
|
| I read in the documentation that the deb for X 4.0.3 now uses
| /etc/alternatives to find a window manager to use. I like
| icewm-gnome so I have:
Dunno about that.
| But when I bring up X, unless I start icewm manually, I end up
|
Generally, I just create a .xsession file in my home directory to start
whichever windowmanager I want. You basically just exec [wm command], like
this:
exec wmaker # (for WindowMaker)
- or -
exec blackbox # (for Blackbox)
- or -
exec startkde # (for KDE)
etc...
You can also setup startu
I've just install (yesterday) uwm and found that it created a softlink from
/usr/doc/uwm to /usr/share/doc/udm, so the documentation is easily findable on
my system.
Anyway, I'm really glad I read this list otherwise I'd have never come across
uwm. It really is excellant. If you're bored by the si
I would also suggest looking at icewm.
It's easy on the resources and is ready to use.
It also does not require a mouse, which is nice.
I've been using icewm for a year and love it. I've tried others
but always come back to icewm.
Kevin
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:28:44PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> The only thing I
> miss (and it may be strictly my ignorance) are icons for certain apps. But
> it's s light and fast!
Just edit your menu hook files (defaults are in /etc/X11/ude/; you can
edit those or put dotfiles in your
There's good documentation for uwm in /usr/doc/ude/. It explains
exactly how to use and modify uwm.
The documentation is in the ude directory because uwm ("Unix Window
Manager") is part of the planned ude ("Unix Desktop Environment")--so
far as I know, it's the only part of ude that's currently us
People recommended uwm, and it sounded interesting.
If anyone else is looking to try it, keep in mind that there's no man
page, no documention gets installed in /usr/doc, and no documentation
of the program at its home page, meaning you'll have to read the
source or something to figure out how it
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:36:52PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:51:32PM -0500, cdryburgh asked about window
> managers. Here's my suggestion:
>
> No question in my mind: uwm. It has the best interface I've ever used.
> You can perform any operation on any window by clic
To quote kmself@ix.netcom.com,
# - twm is a pretty minimal window manager.
# - blackbox and sawfish are both pretty slim.
I love Sawfish, but I don't think it's appropriate in this case. Almost
all of Sawfish is written in the Rep dialect of Lisp, and is interpreted
at runtime. That's a CPU-de
on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:51:32PM -0500, cdryburgh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Have got an old 386 with Debian Linux on it. Have loaded X and am
> looking for a window manager for it. There are a lot of them. I was
> hopping that if I give some specs that someone could narrow down the
> list.
>
Chris,
I don't know about item #3, but I have been very happy with the blackbox
window manager (http://blackbox.alug.org/). Very lightweight, and clean,
and very little screen real estate is wasted. I switched to blackbox when
the Gnome window manager made my P100 w/24MB RAM very slow.
Good luc
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:51:32PM -0500, cdryburgh wrote:
> Have got an old 386 with Debian Linux on it. Have loaded X and am
> looking for a window manager for it. There are a lot of them. I was
> hopping that if I give some specs that someone could narrow down the
> list.
>
> 1. Have limited me
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:51:32PM -0500, cdryburgh asked about window
managers. Here's my suggestion:
No question in my mind: uwm. It has the best interface I've ever used.
You can perform any operation on any window by clicking on it
_anywhere_. You can also use keystrokes to do pretty much anyt
To quote cdryburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# The ICEWM looks like a possibility to me. Any other opinions.
That would have been my suggestion. Generally, I've found you get most
bang for the resources with IceWM. Blackbox is supposed to be extremely
lightweight though, so you might want to check it o
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, cdryburgh wrote:
-|Have got an old 386 with Debian Linux on it. Have loaded X and am
-|looking for a window manager for it. There are a lot of them. I was
-|hopping that if I give some specs that someone could narrow down the
-|list.
-|
-|1. Have limited memory resources so mus
cdryburgh wrote:
>
> 1. Have limited memory resources so must not use much.
> 2. Have small monitor 14". Must allow for maximum screen viewing.
> 3. I am a programmer so will probably be doing GUI's and CORBA related
> stuff at some point.
Sounds like a perfect candidate for Blackbox 0.61.x, pack
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 08:55:30PM +0100, Francesco Tapparo wrote:
> I maintain SCWM, a guile-powered window manager. An user asked me to add a
> Provides: x-window-manager, but I cannot find this virtual package in the
> virtual package list, neither in the policy (I have debian-policy 3.1.1.1).
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:34:11 PST Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> This happened after I cat'ed usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color onto my
> ~/.Xdefaults file, in an effort to get Xterm to work in colour (following
> some advice in the list archives). My .Xdefaults file was nonexistent before
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, I wrote:
> I was using fvwm2 as my window manager, but now X is dumping me into twm.
I figured out what the problem was. It had nothing to do with my
~/.Xdefaults. Earlier that day I had replaced the /bin/sh symlink to
bash with a symlink to ash, hoping it would use less memor
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