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#1 2009-02-23 22:30:57

archlinux1
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Compiz, + AWN

I am looking for a lightweight desktop environment that allows me to run compiz and AWN as my only panel.  Light weight is a large factor but not a necessity.  Thanks!

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#2 2009-02-23 22:33:35

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Re: Compiz, + AWN

Why don't you just run compiz with awn?

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#3 2009-02-24 02:01:59

archlinux1
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Re: Compiz, + AWN

I am now running compiz and awn together (compiz as my standalone window manager).  I am trying to get rid of as much gnome junk as I can.  How can I theme my gtk applications without gnome?  What about my mouse and icons and such?  Also many of the AWN applet/launcher things don't work like AWN main menu, Cario main menu, and file broswer launcher.  Any ideas why not?  When I "activate" them they simply show up as a 1px wide white line on the dock.

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#4 2009-02-24 02:09:47

flowheat
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Re: Compiz, + AWN

I run a similar setup with LXDE and cairo-dock as my only panel.  LXDE is very small as far as DE goes and you could easily replace cairo-dock with AWN.  I just switched to cairo-dock because it pulls in less gnome stuff.

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#5 2009-02-24 02:20:48

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Re: Compiz, + AWN

archlinux1 wrote:

How can I theme my gtk applications without gnome?.

There's a number of tools that you can use for theming without a DE. A lot of people like lxappearance which will allow you to change your GTK2 theme as well as your icons and such. I was using gtk2_prefs for previewing, although I do and changes it by hand. For instance, this is what my GTK2 settings looks like:

~/.gtkrc-2.0

gtk-icon-theme-name = "black-white"
gtk-theme-name = "BlackWhite"

style "user-font"
{
    font_name="DejaVu Sans"
}

I've never used Compiz, so I have no idea how to set it up. I use Openbox and do all of my settings by hand.

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