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🧊 IceWM 3.7 Window Manager Brings Enhanced Customization
—Linuxiac

「 On the fixes front, IceWM 3.7 addresses several longstanding quirks. One important tweak ensures the last event time is always used when setting window focus. At the same time, the fix for the desktop-focus glitch now prevents the user interface from getting stuck after undoing a “show the desktop” command 」

linuxiac.com/icewm-3-7-window-

Linuxiac · IceWM 3.7 Window Manager Brings Enhanced CustomizationIceWM 3.7 window manager for the X Window System brings new theming options, improved keybinding support, and bug fixes.

#linux #windowmanagers #linuxreccomendations

Currently trying out a bunch of distros in a vm as I am looking for somthing fresh. I currently use linux mint with xmonad as the wm. Looking for window manager recs (tiling) and distro recs.
Hoping for a distro that is light weight but needs minimal setup (not doing arch from scratch, been there but cbf atm)

My current use case is (in order of priority): programming, web browsing, gaming.
I use a nvidia
🤮 rtx 2070 super and ryzen 3700x and haven't had a good experience with wayland but willing to give it another go

#xorg #wayland #windowmanagers

Over on the FreeBSD Forums, I've been postulating what it would mean to have an 'xwayland on xorg' shim, similar to what #xwayland does now, just in reverse.

Why? Because on #x11 we have a plethora of decent window managers, and toolkits, most of which won't ever see the light of day any more. Sure, they can live on through #wayland, but that limits what you'll be able run under that window manager. I think this is #wayland's biggest downside -- we're all being funneled through one or two desktop environments. This is going to suck from a UI perspective, IMO.

I've given this a lot of thought, and I think I want to put myself forward to formally maintain #xorg. I realise what I'm saying -- and I must be absolutely f***ing crazy, but I think it's the only way if I'm to keep a certain ecosystem alive.

So... I guess I need to start having conversations with folk over at #xorg -- sooner rather than later.

If anyone here can help facilitate that in some formal capacity, that would help.

I'm very serious about this as well -- but before I look at writing features or anything else, I first need to understand the stupidi^H^H^Hmagnitude of this, and see how I go.

But I'm putting myself forward to do this.

Window Maker 0.96.0 released

After three years, there's a new Window Maker release - version 0.96.0 - and it's got some useful new features. First, the NeXTSTEP-inspired window manager now supports hot corners, so you can send your mouse to a corner of your display and have it execute a command. Second, you can now set keyboard shortcuts for various functions related to taking screenshots, which is a

osnews.com/story/136611/window

www.osnews.comWindow Maker 0.96.0 released – OSnews

Paginator: desktop pager for Window Maker and similar environments

Speaking of fun little tools:

Paginator is a desktop pager for EWMH-compliant X11 window managers. Paginator provides a graphical interface displaying the current configuration of all desktops, allowing the user to change the current desktop or the current active window with the mouse.

Exac

osnews.com/story/136571/pagina

www.osnews.comPaginator: desktop pager for Window Maker and similar environments – OSnews

COSMIC DE gets fractional scaling

Beyond the dazzling sea of licensed fireworks and thunderclouds lies a cosmic array of ancient stars. It’s within our gaze upon these stars where we find the inspiration for COSMIC DE, our new desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros. Let’s get into the updates!

COSMIC DE is System76's in-progress Rust-based desktop environment. System7

osnews.com/story/136376/cosmic

www.osnews.comCOSMIC DE gets fractional scaling – OSnews