I want to switch from openbox to one of tiling WMs. Went for scrotwm first. Couple of questions:
1) Apps like gmplayer doesn't run. X draws black window where player is suppose to be but it's unresponsive. Another app, vitunes doesn't run at all. Terminal shows running PID, but there's nothing there. Once I press return in terminal, the job is suspended.
2) I'd like to run dzen2 bar next to status bar on top. Unfortunately dzen is always covered with statusbar. Is it possible to run one next to other or should I settle with dzen on bottom?
3) In ~/.scrtowm.conf I changed parameters for screen size to accommodate free space for dzen at the bottom. Yet, when scrotwm is run for the first time, that dzen space is covered. I have to press "MOD + Q" to reset and then it shows dzen. Why is this?
4) I've seen some statusbars have a line such as "[1]term 2[web] [3]work ...etc" rather than default statusbar workspace layout. How can I change this?
And finally, for those of you using scrotwm, why scrotwm, why not xmonad? Any particular reason other than it's written in C.
Some scrotwm noobery here, hope you can help.
Cheers
1) Apps like gmplayer doesn't run. X draws black window where player is suppose to be but it's unresponsive. Another app, vitunes doesn't run at all. Terminal shows running PID, but there's nothing there. Once I press return in terminal, the job is suspended.
2) I'd like to run dzen2 bar next to status bar on top. Unfortunately dzen is always covered with statusbar. Is it possible to run one next to other or should I settle with dzen on bottom?
3) In ~/.scrtowm.conf I changed parameters for screen size to accommodate free space for dzen at the bottom. Yet, when scrotwm is run for the first time, that dzen space is covered. I have to press "MOD + Q" to reset and then it shows dzen. Why is this?
4) I've seen some statusbars have a line such as "[1]term 2[web] [3]work ...etc" rather than default statusbar workspace layout. How can I change this?
And finally, for those of you using scrotwm, why scrotwm, why not xmonad? Any particular reason other than it's written in C.
Some scrotwm noobery here, hope you can help.
Cheers