Hi,

I tried icewm, jwm, wmaker and now I am trying fluxbox which looks
like a promising candidate. However, fonsts are painfully small on my
17.3 inch laptop screen.

With fluxbox can I configure:
a) font sizes, types and styles
b) use a wallpaper
c) increase the height of the taskbar and the font sizes it uses
d) make the general look more esthetically appealing

Edward

On 01/03/2016, KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:41:22PM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Like, I assume many, on this mailing list, know what to do when they
>> opt not to install the default window manager or desktop. However, I
>> think, XFCE is a good choice, although on my T4400 2GB computer it
>> tends to be rather heavy. Window managers are attractive with respect
>> to low resource use, but they are unattractive with respect to user
>> configuration unless somebody in Devuan decides to write a script or
>> an executable to automate user configuration of the most popular
>> window managers. The latter is a job I don't know as I have never
>> configured a window manager. My eyes, although perfectly healthy, are
>> quite dictatorial to me. I need good readability and small fonts are
>> out of question to me as they cause too much eye fatigue. I also need
>> to have control of display brightness as average brightness is too
>> insense for me.
>>
>> I think, window manager user configuration more or less rests on these
>> tasks:
>> a) configure some menu structure to access user programs
>> b) configure a keyboard structure to access user programs
>> c) configure wallpaper and screen saver
>> d) adjust font sizes and screen brightness
>>
>
> Hi Edward,
>
> some of the most widely used window managers ship with a configuration
> tool which allows to do tune those things with a few clicks. This is
> true for instance in WindowMaker, where WPrefs can configure almost
> all the configurable options. This is however not true for other
> window managers, especially tiling ones, which usually have just a
> configuration file for that, and assume that vi is the best way to
> configure your environment (which is not totally bullshit, indeed).
>
> Unfortunately, the screensaver is another story, mainly for historical
> reasons, and brightness adjustment often depends quite heavily on
> your hardware...
>
> HND
>
> KatolaZ
>
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