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sowm
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XFCE live usb(i686) is using almost 200mb of memory on boot?
To add to the comment above, if memory is all you care about, I managed to get it down to 75MB once with custom kernel and sowm.
- any patch that entirely removes the bar?
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How does dwm spawn() work exactly?
You can check https://github.com/dylanaraps/sowm It will be handy to you to understand how Dwm works
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How hard would it be to make my own window manager?
Or sowm.
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Think this beast can run Linux?
I managed to get 75mb with X session on Void. (sowm + minimal kernel)
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Suckless desktop starter pack, how to start?
Then perhaps you should have a look at sowm. It is a fork (if you can still call it that) of dwm that has no tiling support and no bar.
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what linux distro is recommended for my slow pc?
If you are r/linux4noobs then you probably won't be able to get it running but... I managed to get voidlinux with sowm and a custom kernel to 70MB memory usage.
- Asking for a really lightweight distro for me to learn linux with.
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How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One
This is a great article and I remember reading it numerous times while I was implementing my own window manager.
For someone interested in working on a really fun and rewarding hobby project a WM is a great one to look into since there are so many resources starting from really small implementations:
- https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm
- https://github.com/venam/2bwm
- https://github.com/dylanaraps/sowm
- https://github.com/dcat/swm
- https://github.com/JLErvin/berry
Which are great at introducing the concepts and allowing you to grok the required libraries.
There are also a bunch of more full featured window managers which will introduce you to more advanced topics:
- https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm
- https://github.com/herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm
- https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
- https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm
Gradually as you get more familiar with the ecosystem a few questions will come up:
Should I use X11 or XCB? - I personally used XCB and didn't find it too difficult to interface with, and there are a large number of implementations which use it (2bwm, bspwm, ratpoison, etc) so you shouldn't have an issue with learning more about it. But the documentation is pretty limited. If you are just wanting to write a toy WM than X11 is perfectly fine.
X or Wayland? - If you're wanting to write your first WM as a hobby project than I would recommend X over wayland just due to the much larger amount of reference material and documentation. You will have a much easier time getting your feet wet. Ignore the comments about X dying as it doesn't really matter for a hobby project, since the whole point is to have fun.
Feel free to check out my window manager which is an example of what just reading this blog post and getting inspired can result in: https://github.com/cfrank/natwm
- Is Debian 11 XFCE a good choice for an old laptop?
i3blocks
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How can I modify i3status?
Another tool you can consider is i3blocks, which really is just a light layer on top of the default i3bar but uses a more readable config format.
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Screenshot i3 Block Button: an easy way to take screenshots with a single click. The captured screenshot is automatically copied to the clipboard and can also be saved in a file by clicking on a notification.
But there is one issue background must wait for dunstify notifcation to finish (explained here in different context https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks/issues/354). This mean I can't take another screenshot until I dismiss/click this notification.
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Event listening statusbar
You can use the default swaybar with i3blocks as the status_command. i3blocks can receive signals.
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swaybar : i3blocks's block always turn into "]" character after clicked, turn normal when sway is reloaded.
From https://vivien.github.io/i3blocks/
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I made (yet another) status bar generator - yablocks
You can think of yablocks as somewhere in between writing your own status generator manually using the i3bar json protocol and using i3blocks. You'll be generating the JSON output yourself, but with help from a fully featured templating engine and structured data.
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i3blocks xwindow display solution
within your i3blocks config. This solution doesn't always work, especially in firefox, and is prone to hanging. Even using :
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which status bar will let me customize it easily and let me write shell scripts for it?
I use i3blocks and write all the scripts myself, these examples can be a good starting point.
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Shell script as an alternative to i3status.
https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks.git https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks-contrib.git
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Finally , my first i3wm+polybar
https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks#click
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[i3status] How to Get An output command ????
You might check out https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks instead of i3status.
What are some alternatives?
2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
i3status - Generates status bar to use with i3bar, dzen2 or xmobar
tinywm - The tiniest window manager.
i3status-rust - Very resourcefriendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
cwm - portable version of OpenBSD's cwm(1) window manager
i3blocks-contrib - Official repository for community contributed blocklets
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
spicetify-themes - A community-driven collection of themes for customizing Spotify through Spicetify - https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli
patches - Collection of patches for dwm, st and dmenu
nord-kitty - An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Kitty theme
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
dotfiles - The ricer's canvas