window maker looks awesome, but I have my doubts regarding its functionality. Could any window maker user share their experience with me?
I use Window Maker regularly. It's very featureful and fairly easy to use. It has its quirks because a lot of applications don't play nicely with the dock icon system, but it's customizable and user friendly overall. Everything is configured via GUI. Also, you'll need some dockapps for a few things like wmsystemtray and wmclock, both should be available via package manager. Start them, pin them to the dock wherever you like, and set them to launch on startup. https://www.dockapps.net/ has a list of more you can try out. I gave up having the application menu be auto-populated, I ended up just making my own entries for everything since you can't edit the menu if it's being autofilled. Allegedly, there used to be a way to get the autogenerated menu to work alongside a customized one, but that might have been broken for 20 years now as far as I can tell. You might also want to make sure the key bindings don't conflict with your other programs, I can't remember which one was causing problems for me by default. Again, everything is GUI based (double click the Window Maker logo for settings) so it's nice and easy. oh yeah, it doesn't play nice with click trackpads too, you need to be able to right-click drag for some things, a proper mouse is mandatory It's a bit quirky, but it's also very easy to get used to. It makes an active effort to be easy to use, things are generally discoverable by clicking around and checking the tooltips (enable balloon help when you're starting out). I really like Window Maker.
continuing from the above, I've been using it actively for... I dunno, more than 10 years, maybe more like 15 or so it hasn't always been my main WM, a bunch of my systems just used XFCE, and way back when GNOME wasn't completely divorced from good taste or design, I used GNOME 2 but if I'm on a resource constrained system, Window Maker comes out since it's really light, snappy, and is still easy to use -- I'd spent a bit of time going nuts with FVWM for a while and tweaking it at one point, but it's just a pain to configure, while Window Maker is comically easy and user friendly
idk what this is. i been using unix since 2021. and run dwm, before it was just manjaro xfce
>>230 >idk what this is it's a window manager that tries to replicate the look and feel of NeXTStep (the OS that became Mac OS X)
window maker has been our main desktop environment for the past five years! we're very happy with it :) on our old laptop we had a problem where it would randomly lock up but that doesn't happen on the new one we like it because it encourages you to actually work with windows windows stay in the background unless you alt-click them and you can send windows to the background by alt-clicking their title bar. minimized windows turn into "miniwindows" you can freely arrange and you can minimize all windows of an app into its appicon by right-clicking minimize. on kde we'd typically maximize every window and alt-tab between them, but here that feels disorienting so we're encouraged to size and arrange windows in a way that makes the most spacial sense it makes window management useful and intentional (why "single window mode" isn't the default in gimp will finally make sense) a few tricks: definitely check "do not cover Icons/The Dock when maximizing" pulldown/right-click menus work by holding down the mouse button and then releasing it once you're on the correct option (if your laptop has mouse buttons above trackpad/below joystick, use those ^_^) if an app-icon doesn't show up (nothing happens when you right-click minimize), right-click on the title bar, Advanced Options, Emulate application and restart the app. you can drag the app icons into the dock to pin them and they'll stay even if you close the app. we like having the smaller 48x48 icons, but it makes dockapps kinda cramped set a wallpaper using the wmsetbg command! recommend -S -f -u flags (check man page) there's a lot of pretty themes you can check out by going to right-click desktop > workspace > appearance > styles ^_^ we like finding one that matches the wallpaper (but some come with their own wallpaper and it overrides the one you just set (¬_¬") ) check out gworkspace if you want a file manager with desktop icons recommend enabling "Ignore decoration hints for GTK" in expert preferences check out the super cool animation it does when you remove an app from the dock ^_^ (need 2 enable "superfluous animations") for dockapps, we use wmbattery, wmtime, wmamixer, and wmusic
>>274 who's 'we'?
>>277 the royal we (｀・ω・´)
>>278 are you from a monarch?
Window Maker is like your grandpa's Unity (as in Ubuntu Unity).
