i3wm: an excellent and aesthetically pleasing window manager
It has been a while since I tried a new tiler. Lately, I have been having a 'good time' building a vanilla i3wm desktop. In keeping with my preference of…
Helpful system tray utilities/applications
I have been doing quite a bit of research & tweaking of my dwm (debian and arch-based) installations over the past several weeks. In the process of this work, I…
Fvwm3 Tutorial
In my continuing saga of trying and using window managers (wm), I have installed Fvwm3. By way of providing a bit of background I'll start by describing my environment: Fvwm3…
A dwm (Dynamic Window Manager) Journey- 3
In the third (3rd) installment of this tutorial series, I'll discuss environment concerns/ requirements as well as implementation evaluation and components. To begin, I'll enumerate what I consider (for me)…
A dwm (Dynamic Window Manager) Journey- 2
As I noted in my first article in this series, I began this journey with a decent understanding of both bspwm and herbstluftwm (hlwm). However, if I wanted to use…
A dwm (Dynamic Window Manager) Journey- 1
I have to say that I have a horrible history of remaining on any environment for very long. Now, in my forever journeys of Linux exploration, I have recently arrived…
Pop!OS my adventure(s)
Like many of my articles, this is a brief tutorial on some useful (to me) tweaks I have added to a new distro. Be advised: this is my first foray…
Implementing Linux Window Managers ~ Tutorial
Are you interested in learning a bit 'more' about Linux Window Managers? Have you tried installing one (or more) only to arrive at a blank screen? Do you aspire to…
DWM & learning how-to build “a nice setup”
Along with my 'other' Covid-19 related adventures' I have just completed my first dwm (Dynamic Window Manager) desktop setup. I thought I would share what I created and hope "someone…
Window Managers: How-to share settings, autostart etc.
If you are like me and prefer Window Managers (bspwm, dwm, openbox, hlwm, spectrwm, etc.) to Desktop Environments (gnome, KDE, xfce, budgie, etc.), you may find this little tutorial/ adventure…