Comments on: ROX-desktop and some very loud wallpaper

By: FOX Desktop and some graphical apps « Motho ke motho ka botho

FOX Desktop and some graphical apps « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:59:43 +0000

[...] even entire desktops, like the little-known ROX desktop from a while back. Before I show you another one like that, here are a few applications that are [...]

By: gullars

gullars — Sun, 23 May 2010 22:30:48 +0000

If you would have read my comment you would have seen that I have tried out i3 I
didn’t really like it, to me it was just like wmii, but it had more confusing
keybindings, and I didn’t feel like rebinding all the keys.

I just tried out musca’s stacking mode, and it is just like evilwm… …without
the nice keyboard shortcuts, but I guess that stacking is for using the rodent,
so that shouldn’t be too bad.

I haven’t been trying out scrotwm, it seems to be quite a bit like musca, and I
am very content with musca as it is, it is really small and simple, and does
what I want with sane defaults another thing that I like with musca is the
manual tiling, some programs like skype opens windows that I don’t care for at
all, and those I can just hide away, it makes me able to tile up windows just as
I want, and it doesn’t really help when I have to fight against the
windowmanager, it seems like musca just does what it should, lets me do what I
want, and then keeps out of the way

yesterday I was trying out cvm, afterstep and windowlab again, but well, the
lack of tiling makes them less appealing to me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:07:27 +0000

You should really try http://i3.zekjur.net

By: Igor

Igor — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:07:15 +0000

Try scrotwm and may be you’ll like it. http://scrotwm.org/
“Scrotwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast…”

By: Duncan Snowden

Duncan Snowden — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:23:47 +0000

It’s been a while since I used the full ROX desktop (although you’ll have to pry ROX-Filer from my cold, dead hands), but I seem to recall that OroboROX is themable with pixmaps. Icons, you can use whatever’s installed for GTK, although the Filer toolbar is a little tricky since it uses some non-standard ones. (It’s slightly annoying that the Filer display itself doesn’t inherit GTK icon settings; you have to choose them with the program’s own Options window. But you can still use any installed GTK icon theme.)

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:14:38 +0000

You can “borrow” themes from XFWM4 to expand the options for OroboROX (older themes work better). The Weather applet doesn’t work as the author has never gotten round to changing the SOAP (the provider he was using has changed its terms of service). I use the XFCE4 plug in, which has been adapted by this chap http://code.google.com/p/xfce2rox/.

Other than that it’s nice to see my favourite DE get some attention from someone people actually pay heed to

By: gullars

gullars — Sun, 23 May 2010 10:15:44 +0000

Yeah, I don’t think that I will leave musca I’m more just testing things out for fun, I have a compiz standalone + gnome-do, bloatpack going on crunchbang for using when doing skype with my girlfriend, somehow I don’t get archlinux to recognize my laptop’s webcam, and I installed more or less all the windowmanagers that I could find in arch just to play around with them, but no, I can’t really find any that can fight against musca in speed, ease and productivity.

so what I have going now is the wm that I am usually running musca, then I have pekwm, twm, fluxbox, openbox, blackbox, evilwm, cwm, afterstep, windowmaker, wmii, i3, ratpoison, stumpwm and sawfish that I managed to get to run.
I tried sithwm, windowlab, samurai-x and various others too, but didn’t get them to run or compile on my archbox as of now.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 23 May 2010 07:16:54 +0000

You’re welcome, I am pleased that you enjoy it. Have fun!

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 23 May 2010 07:11:43 +0000

Yup. I didn’t try too hard in those departments, but I did notice that the old Salsa icon theme, which was leftover from my attempt to resurrect Fluxbuntu, was one of the options shown in the preferences menu.

And if you use a window manager other than OroboROX, you can customize it as you are used to. Openbox is an option through the rox-all package, but it’s a little out of date.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:48:16 +0000

Is it possible to beautify it to some extent? As in, different icon theme, not so ugly borders, ..

Openbox and Gnome have spoiled me when it comes to theming..