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Hello Archers!
I have been using PEKWM for a month and I really love it. I feel really confortable moving, resizing and tabbing windows quickly.
I have tried to recreate all the things I used when I had XFCE4, like a bottom panel with the aplications icons, a pager, a dock, a clock, etc... But after try a wide range of applications (pypanel, tint2, bmpanel, ipager, trayer, cairo, avant and so on) I just realised that what I really want is XFCE4 with Pekwm (instead of XFwm).
Is this really possible?
I've been googling and reading for an hour and but I have't found what exactly need to include in my xinitrc file.
This guy got it working using wolvix so I should be able to do it too using Arch: http://forums.wolvix.org/index.php?topic=1292
Thank you very much in advance
Last edited by rafaelgp (2009-04-16 22:46:15)
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Does anyone heard that you must never go to swim after eating something? Is that really true?
I also have heard that XFCE4 is faster and less RAM demanding than Gnome... but is this really true?
I have made a completely amateur test comparing the amount of RAM used by Pekwm with XFCE4-panel, Xfce4 and Gnome.
The results are in % of memory used (according to conky) I tested one, then modified my xinitrc, then restarted and so on. And I did this twice just in case.
First I did it with averything closed:
First time Second time
Pekwm+XFCE4 8% 7%
XFCE4 7% 8%
Gnome 9% 10%
Then I tried opening Eclipse, probably the heaviest application I run in my computer
First time Second time Third time
Pekwm+XFCE4 26% 25%
XFCE4 27% 29%
Gnome 30% 25% 29%
First time, as I expected, pekwm was the less RAM demending, but percentages were quite similar. I didn't notice any difference talking about speed.
Then I did it again and suprisingly Gnome used less RAM than XFCE and same as Pekwm. So I did it a third time just to have a proper average.
This is just a quick rubish test, I know. But the RAM ussage was something it really put me down about using Gnome and now I know that it really doesn't matter, at least in my case (I have 1.9GB RAM).
After this revelation, I think I am going to use Gnome. But I still like Pekwm, so I change my question:
----> Is it possible to use Pekwm with Gnome?
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I post this just in case someone else want to use Gnome + Pekwm:
My ~/.xinitrc file looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
conky &
numlockx &
xset -b &
exec ck-launch-session gnome-session &
exec pekwm
#It is very important to write pekwm the last one and without "&"
I boot directly without DM so my /etc/inittab is:
#
# /etc/inittab
#
id:5:initdefault:
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/6 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
x:5:once:/bin/su rafael -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c startx >/dev/null 2>&1"
Finally, open gconftool and set:
apps>nautilus>preferences>show_desktop: untick
Note: I tried changing the following
desktop>gnome>session>required_components>windowmanager: replace metacity by pekwm
and creating a desktop entry for PekWM as it is said in the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PekWM
nano /usr/share/xsessions/Pekwm.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=PekWM
Comment=Start PekWM
Exec=/usr/local/bin/pekwm
Icon=
Type=Application
but didn't work because /usr/local/bin is empty. Any ideas?
Althought everything is working, I have the feeling that nautilus is not entirely happy.
Last edited by rafaelgp (2009-04-16 22:14:55)
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but didn't work because /usr/local/bin is empty. Any ideas?
$ which pekwm
/usr/bin/pekwm
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For Xfce4, it's sufficient to kill xfwm4 and start pekwm, then exit and save your session. Next time you log in to Xfce4, you'll have pekwm handling the windows.
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