Way back, I wrote a quick blurb on Windows Managers for running under X.
- -Well, a while back I switched to Ubuntu for my OS of choice. As you may know, the fine folks at Ubuntu switch the default window manager to something called Unity, which cause a stir. I tried it for a while, but decided that it was too heavy, and to mouse-centric.
- -So, what to do? Well, I went back to my old standby wmfs, Window Manager From Scratch. This is a modern WM with systray support, full Ximirama and Xrandr support, tiles, and is mainly driven from the keyboard. Life is good.
- -To install (same steps as for Fedora, RHEL, or Ubuntu), download the source, and install the needed development libraries for: X11, Xft, freetype, Xinerama, Xrandr, and Imlib2. I used the native packages from the OS. Then, simple do a
- -make
-sudo make install
-(you do build software as a normal user, right?)
- -This will install all the needed bits and configs into the correct place. Under Ubuntu 11.10, there was an entry from the login screen to let me chose wmfs.
- -Config is handled in $HOME/.config/wmfs/wmfsrc which you can copy from /etc/xdg/wmfs/wmfsrc.
- -The wmfs website has very nice documentation as well as likes to some people’s configs with screen shots.
- -It runs very fast, and very lean:
- - Private + Shared = RAM used Program
- 3.9 MiB + 310.0 KiB = 4.2 MiB wmfs
-Check it out, I am sure you will like what you see.
diff --git a/posts/2011/12/201112an-update-to-window-managers.md b/posts/2011/12/201112an-update-to-window-managers.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ca21dfac --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/2011/12/201112an-update-to-window-managers.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ + + +Way back, I wrote a quick blurb on [Window Managers](links://slug/window-managers) for running under X. + +Well, a while back I switched to [Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com) for my OS of choice. As you may know, the fine folks at Ubuntu switched to default window manager to something called **Unity**, which caused a stir. I tried it for a while, but decided that it was too heavy, and too mouse-centric. + +So, what to do? Well, I went back to my old standby [wmfs](http://wmfs.info), Window Manager From Scratch. This is a modern WM with systray support, full Ximirama and Xrandr support, tiles, and is mainly driven from the keyboard. Life is good. + +To install (same steps as for Fedora, RHEL, or Ubuntu), download the source, and install the needed development libraries for: **X11, Xft, freetype, Xinerama, Xrandr, and Imlib2**. I used the native packages from the OS. Then, simple do a + + make + sudo make install + +(you do build software as a normal user, right?) + +This will install all the needed bits and configs into the correct place. Under Ubuntu 11.10, there was an entry from the login screen to let me chose wmfs. + +Config is handled in *$HOME/.config/wmfs/wmfsrc* which you can copy from */etc/xdg/wmfs/wmfsrc*. + +***EDIT 2016-11-30**: It seems the domain is no longer active.* +The [wmfs website](http://wmfs.info) has very nice documentation as well as likes to some people’s configs with screen shots. + +It runs very fast, and very lean: + + Private + Shared = RAM used Program + 3.9 MiB + 310.0 KiB = 4.2 MiB wmfs + +Check it out, I am sure you will like what you see. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/posts/2011/12/201112an-update-to-window-managers.meta b/posts/2011/12/201112an-update-to-window-managers.meta deleted file mode 100644 index 7ccaddfd..00000000 --- a/posts/2011/12/201112an-update-to-window-managers.meta +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -.. title: An Update to 'Window Managers?' -.. slug: an-update-to-window-managers -.. date: 2011/12/22 17:12:00 -.. tags: cli,software,windowmanager -.. link: -.. description: