POP!OS 21.10- Tweaked!
Recently, I decided to give another run at using POP!OS. There were a number of factors that prompted my choice but the most significant was: System76's decision to move their…
dwm-xsetroot based status bar
For those who might be looking for an xsetroot approach for use on their dwm status bar, I made some mods (to a script from clusterF on BunsenLabs). The below…
i3wm (not gaps), rofi, conkybar, conky(2), st (terminal), Nordic Palette on MX21(b2) running Debian Bullseye
Nordic Palette for your desktop.
For those who asked for pointers on arranging their GTK Desktop to Nordic colors, here are my recommendations. If you are unfamiliar with the Nordic Palette here is information on…
xterm & URxvt – make ’em look nicer
If you are interested in small footprint, low resource use terminals, there are few skinnier than xterm and URxvt. The 'thing' that scares most people away from these tiny terminals…
dwm and i3wm systray removal & desktop setup tricks
These days, there are two window managers I enjoy using "more than the others I have tried". They are dwm & i3wm. After long time use (more than a year…
i3wm, dwm plus Peppermint 10 desktops on an LTS Ubuntu Bionic Base
Building this Ubuntu-based multi-window manager/ DE environment is tested on Peppermint OS 10. The steps highlighted should work with other Ubuntu-based distros & with minor tweaks should even work on…
Bunsenlabs on non-systemd Debian (antiX19)
If you want to work with, or play around with, BunsenLabs (BL) on a non-systemd Debian platform, here is a method by which you can install BL on antiX19. With…
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…