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Author: Gravis
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Subject: Re: [Dng] John Goerzen asks, "Has modern Linux lost its way?"
install IceWM? but-but-but it's C++, so it's large and bloated,
right? right??? ಠ_ಠ

--Gravis


On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@???> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:30:58AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 07:33:51 +0200
>> Martijn Dekkers <devuan-list1@???> wrote:
>>
>> > Whilst I am still utterly amazed with how awesome Linux servers are, I
>> > don't think we will ever get there with desktops.
>>
>> Just for fun, try Openbox with custom key-combos, including an easy to
>> hit key-combo to run dmenu. You might like to customize dmenu so its
>> menu displays down the screen instead of across the top (-L).
>
> Or just:
> apt-get install icewm
>
> Comes up and works *right* out of the box, though it might not look
> like everyone's first choice (the default theme is rather gray.)
>
> You can add shortcut keys in ~/.icewm/keys:
> key "Shift+Print"                               scrot -u -b
> key "Print"                                     scrot

>
> And all the default keybindings are in the example preferences;
> there are plenty of features you might not know about:
> $ grep Tile ~/.icewm/preferences
> # KeySysTileVertical="Alt+Shift+F2"
> # KeySysTileHorizontal="Alt+Shift+F3"
>
> In other words, you can rearrange windows with alt+shift+F2-F5,
> move the top window to any corner you like with the keys bound to
> KeyWinArrange*, and so on...out of the box, no customization needed.
>
> Thanks,
> Isaac Dunham
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