You can download pekwm-dev and some themes from my repo!
Here´s a little screenshot!
pekwm-dev
You can try out the new blackbox, although I do not know if the last version is available for Arch.
Xfce is nice but is still heavy compared to *box.
PekWM is nice and highly configurable (text files easily understandable)
Fluxbox has better eye-candy than blackbox though to me less stable, especially with the new blackbox version. All *box use xml to setup the menu.
Fluxbox has never crashed for me. Flux doesnt use xml based menus as of yet, it uses the older simpler box style.
Rox-Filer can set up your Desktop and much more if you use a minimalistic WM.
Menumaker generates a menu for xfce, *box, and more...
Torsmo is nice but may be a pain to configure.
Not really, grab torsmo-extra off dibblethewrecker's repo and its got lots of configs in it.
]]>Xfce is nice but is still heavy compared to *box.
PekWM is nice and highly configurable (text files easily understandable)
Fluxbox has better eye-candy than blackbox though to me less stable, especially with the new blackbox version. All *box use xml to setup the menu.
Rox-Filer can set up your Desktop and much more if you use a minimalistic WM.
Menumaker generates a menu for xfce, *box, and more...
Torsmo is nice but may be a pain to configure.
A themed Gkrellm is always nice-looking.
]]>Dusty wrote:its only useful if you do a lot of work in the console. I've never used it, so I'm just repeating what I've heard before. From what I understand, it is basically a 'window manager' for the console, NOT for X at all... so you could have multiple consoles open on one virtual console. In addition, you can move console sessions to background and pick them up later and stuff, sort of like unlimited virtual consoles.
Basically, if you were looking for a window manager, screen isn't it. However, it may be something fun to investigate if you do a lot of console work (whether across the network or not).
Dusty
Although I've already chosen OpenBox as the WM for now I was just wondering how useful it would be since I'll be using the console as a file manager, etc.
btw shadowhand, what features does aterm have over xterm?
it's be more usefull using console for file manager than any crappy ui
gui sucks
]]>Yeah, Phrak alreay said it.
Aterm is more configurable than xterm basically. It uses the bash shell and stuff, but you can do more with it in terms of set up. I also use Terminal for some stuff. (Terminal is a vte emulator like gnome-terminal, but without all the Gnome dependancies.)
You have no idea what you are talkinbg about, clearly.
Take a look at the xterm manpage - xterm is far better than aterm, and you can do basiclly anything with it.
I used cups, firefox, gAIM, and just about anything else with no extra "session" processes or the like.
]]>Aterm is more configurable than xterm basically. It uses the bash shell and stuff, but you can do more with it in terms of set up. I also use Terminal for some stuff. (Terminal is a vte emulator like gnome-terminal, but without all the Gnome dependancies.)
]]>Although I've already chosen OpenBox as the WM for now I was just wondering how useful it would be since I'll be using the console as a file manager, etc.
btw shadowhand, what features does aterm have over xterm?
Ok, my 2 bytes on the subject:
I think Dusty put it best by stating screen is a window manager for the console. Screen is awesome. However if you're working under X, most have a tendancy to just fire up additional terminals to do additional work. If you want to be picky, screen will save you on screen real-estate, and some ram usage, but that's unimportant. The best features, I think, of screen are a) the ability to save sessions and restore them and b) the ability to split windows.
a) I can start a screen session in an xterm, fire up 4 screen "terminals" inside it, and hit ctrl+alt+backpace (to kill X) and in another terminal, join back to the screen session and everything is still running.
b) you can split windows to see multiple screen terminals at once, which is great in console mode... however, under a WM like WMI, I can split terminals without splitting all my windows (and thus shrinking windows I want fullscreened - like firefox)
oh, PS: aterm is bascially the same as xterm, but supports transparency if you use a proper background-setter (I use aterm)
]]>its only useful if you do a lot of work in the console. I've never used it, so I'm just repeating what I've heard before. From what I understand, it is basically a 'window manager' for the console, NOT for X at all... so you could have multiple consoles open on one virtual console. In addition, you can move console sessions to background and pick them up later and stuff, sort of like unlimited virtual consoles.
Basically, if you were looking for a window manager, screen isn't it. However, it may be something fun to investigate if you do a lot of console work (whether across the network or not).
Dusty
Although I've already chosen OpenBox as the WM for now I was just wondering how useful it would be since I'll be using the console as a file manager, etc.
btw shadowhand, what features does aterm have over xterm?
]]>The obligatory screenshot. Your seeing aterm, Gaim, PyPanel, feh, and Openbox there.
]]>Basically, if you were looking for a window manager, screen isn't it. However, it may be something fun to investigate if you do a lot of console work (whether across the network or not).
Dusty
]]>You may also want to check out IceWM, its pretty simple, possibly too simple.
Dusty
]]>put this in ~/.xinitrc
xterm -e screen
I don't have screen Why is it better than xterm?
]]>Your not running that many processes. If you use top (or type ps auxw) you can check out which ones are hogging the CPU and memory and deal with those. Deamons and terminals shouldn't slow anything down (unless it's a server).
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