Re: Window Maker and Looking for the right window manager
Kevin Grant hat gesagt: // Kevin Grant wrote:
> At the moment I'm using Window Maker as my window manager
> but I'm having trouble figuring out how to make it do some
> of the things I'd like it to do. For instance, I'd like
> to set program specific window "looks". Like have all
> xterm windows come up with white writing on a black background
> and all of some other software's window come up with black
> writing on a red background, etc...
You can change the look of any X-application by modifying its socalled
Xresources. Most of them are explained in the application's man pages.
xterm is a good example with a really big man page. In the directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ you can find the default resources for
many applications.
To use xresources you create a file .Xresources in your home directory where
you put the definitions that you like changed. This file will be used
everytime you log into X. For testing you can merge your personal
definitions into the running ones with the command:
$ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
And take a look at the app "editres".
> I also would like to experiment with semi-transparent backgrounds so
> that you can see through (somewhat) a command shell to the windows
> that lie behind it. Perhaps Window Maker can do these things and
> I just don't have the HowTo's I need? Perhaps I should be using a
> different WM for this sort of thing? Or perhaps none of them can do
> this sort of thing? I've thought about trying "Enlightenment" but its
> authors claim that it is still pretty buggy and can crash the system.
> Since I changed to Linux (from DOS/Windows) because I had to deal
> with chronic system crashes this would hardly be an improvement. Any
> comments, advice, pointers to useful info, etc... appreciated.
I found enlightenment does not crash that often. But there are other
pitfalls. I think E is only complete in the frozen debian distribution
"slink" which is not yet totally stable. For customization of window
managers in general take a look at http://themes.org
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