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Voltaire

Voltaire

ProphetOfDoom said:
Voltaire, what is the syntax highlighting scheme you have on that Lisp code in the terminal? It looks super cool. Thanks.
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The editor is just Vim. It is easy to enable syntax highlighting in Vim for all supported languages.
You can use the following settings for the .vimrc file and it will automatically apply syntax highlighting with any type of code you open in Vim.

set t_Co=16
syntax on
 
Voltaire

Voltaire

Alain De Vos said:
Pekwm in orange
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PeKWM is one of the easiest WMs to configure, very lightweight, unlikely customizable, and it has many features that were way ahead of their time.
It used to be a WM that was popular with Arch Linux users, they felt that this WM best suited the philosophy of Arch users.

Not only were there many themes available, it was also incredible simple to develop your own theme for PeKWM.
It is fairly simple to make these kinds of 'advanced designs' with PeKWM:

Things like Aero Snap are incredibly easy to configure in PeKWM:
urukrama.wordpress.com

“Aero Snap” in Pekwm

I have never used Windows Vista or Windows 7, but from what I’ve learned from others it seems to have one really neat feature: Aero snap. If you drag a window to a screen edge that window wil…
urukrama.wordpress.com urukrama.wordpress.com

The files you find in /.pekwm/ are extremely expressive to make your entire desktop do everything you could ever want in relatively little time.
The 'keys' file is really powerful and has just about every option you could ever need by default.

For example, the dockable tabs that make Haiku so special have been used in PeKWM for decades:

I believe that BeOS and Haiku allow you to snap windows together into tab groups... | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
 
ProphetOfDoom

ProphetOfDoom

Voltaire thanks. But i meant does the colour scheme itself have a name. Like i tend to use dark themes like Dark Fruit Salad and Dark Delt. I thought if it had a name it would save me typing in a bunch of hex codes for Geany.
 
Voltaire

Voltaire

ProphetOfDoom said:
Voltaire thanks. But i meant does the colour scheme itself have a name. Like i tend to use dark themes like Dark Fruit Salad and Dark Delt. I thought if it had a name it would save me typing in a bunch of hex codes for Geany.
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It has no name because I made it myself. I didn't save it so I can't pass it on to you anymore.
You can find a few top-notch color schemes in these links:

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Here are 7 pages with color schemes:

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It is a very nice website with configuration files of many different apps and wms.
 
Voltaire

Voltaire

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New n°1 top seller on Steam already works on FreeBSD.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4XAXUFvt9s
 
Voltaire

Voltaire

Ogis said:
Hello. I want to ask how the dwm window manager works with the steam client? Do you need to apply patches?
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I used Steam for about 50 minutes and I played CS:GO for 30 minutes at 1920x1080 resolution with Medium settings throughout and 4x anti-aliasing. I didn't have any issues during gameplay, it played smoothly on my hardware with those settings.

It is best not to adjust your graphics settings while playing the game, that is not stable in my experience. The other problem I've had in those 50 minutes is that a Steam GUI window became unresponsive and wouldn't respond to anything. I have always solved this by logging out of dwm and then logging in which takes less than 1 second with dwm. This happened to me twice and it was a different window that became unresponsive the second time.

If you don't adjust your graphics settings while playing the game (but before or after), and if you don't use the blue Steam GUI too much (I'm not talking about the 'in-game' GUI) then you're going to have little or no problems with dwm.
 
Voltaire

Voltaire

Ogis said:
Hello. I want to ask how the dwm window manager works with the steam client? Do you need to apply patches?
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I have done the official benchmark of the game, which you will find in the workshop. It averages 89.62 fps with almost all game settings on lowest or low on my system. This is for the GTX 650 1GB version in combination with an old i3-3240 dual-core and 4GB single channel DDR3 RAM. (You also have a 2GB version of this GPU) dwm's result is 9% higher in CS:GO compared to MATE, both with compositing enabled.

It seems to be perfectly normal performance in comparison with windows:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLi_LtjVfSY

His CPU is 7% slower than mine, but he has 4GB of extra RAM. And he uses dual channel RAM while I use single channel RAM which makes a difference in this game:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N63lCCf7wFQ

His 17% higher score is normally largely because I'm running low on RAM, and I don't have dual-channel RAM either.
I think it will not be easy to play CS:GO on windows11 on my system because windows11 often uses 3GB of RAM (without opening apps and for some users it uses more than 3GB RAM in this case).

I played CS:GO on dwm for another 15 minutes yesterday evening and I haven't had any more problems, so my impression is that it works fine on dwm except for two specific situations.
I have tested a dozen games on dwm and with no game I have seen issues that I think are caused by dwm. I would say dwm is fine for gaming, and people share that view: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/hlu2eb/why_tilling_wm_is_best_for_games/

r/linux_gaming - Comment by u/Comprehensive-Art772 on ”Window Managers suitable for gaming?”

12 votes and 52 comments so far on Reddit
www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
 
Ogis

Ogis

Thank you,Voltaire, for this detailed report. I'll try to install Steam and see how it all works. I think it will be fine, because my pc is practically analogous to yours.
 
Voltaire

Voltaire

Ogis said:
Thank you,Voltaire, for this detailed report. I'll try to install Steam and see how it all works. I think it will be fine, because my pc is practically analogous to yours.
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You're welcome.

I would recommend installing it via git, there is a known issue that it doesn't work if you install it via pkg.
github.com

GitHub - shkhln/linuxulator-steam-utils: Steam launcher for FreeBSD

Steam launcher for FreeBSD. Contribute to shkhln/linuxulator-steam-utils development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com
 
blackbird9

blackbird9

Oh... windowmaker, with a few nice dockapps: wmcalclock, wmcpu, wmnd, wmix, wmclockmon, wmdiskmon, wmbsdbatt. Running on a thinkpad X201 with 8 GB RAM.
 
ProphetOfDoom

ProphetOfDoom

Profighost said:
I couldn't work with that.
Translucent shells with distracting tits below. 😵‍💫
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I didn't want to be the one to say that. Haha. I honestly don't understand the point of erotica, it's like as if there was a fake sweet shop in your face constantly where all the sweet jars are just paintings on a wall. How does that improve one's life?!
 
Profighost

Profighost

Nah. :cool:
In my eyes this thread is more of "who posts the fanciest looking desktop" or sharing the proud "hey, look at my cool looking desktop",
which is mostly done by the wallpaper, translucent shells, and conky.
It's okay to me.
I barely find something inspiring me here.
I may called puristic (my current desktop I have posted somewhere page fortyidontknowanymore), but I learned about UI at university, and I'm very focused on the efficiency of usage.
So I don't use any pictures as wallpapers for ages, since they look cool only, but simply kill the clearness,
as translucent shells are the same.

But let the guys have their fun.
After all I see it as some kind of advertisment for FreeBSD, since it shows how individual FreeBSD can be tailored,
and fancy looking stuff sells.

To do an impudent joke at the end:
Maybe if one has problems with concentration anyway,
distracting things don't carry so much weight 😁
 
Voltaire

Voltaire

Profighost said:
I barely find something inspiring me here.
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Then we have a different opinion about what is inspiring. I find bspwm an interesting concept in several ways. It's minimalistic but it looks very polished in everyday use.
I think it's because of the gaps it leaves around all the windows.

I'm very focused on the efficiency of usage.
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bspwm is the most efficient solution I've come across. If you configure the keybindings correctly, you can switch workspaces in a flash and you can also easily open new windows in the exact location you want. Not everything can be shown in a screenshot. bspwm feels very stable and reliable. It is more extensible than dwm. And I think it's also snappier than dwm, that's how it feels to me anyway. There are also other people who have experienced this:
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/bspwm/comments/m6jmau/after_2_days_on_i3_i_decided_to_switch_to_bspwm/
2. https://forum.manjaro.org/t/fresh-installation-some-parts-broken-after-the-update/22939/31
3. https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/share-your-desktop/91/3906
4. https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/c.../?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
5. https://www.reddit.com/r/dwm/comments/ejixt4/bspwm_requires_a_bit_less_resources_than_dwm/

It feels to me that the underlying programming of the code is fairly unique in bspwm, making it snappier than just about any other window manager.
We're probably looking at the most productive desktop setup out there.

When I scroll up and down with the mouse, it sometimes goes too slow or too fast in some wms or desktop environments.
In bspwm it is exactly the speed it should be.

And then there's also something like input lag and mouse responsiveness.
This feels noticeably better in bspwm than everything else.
Perhaps someone with knowledge of the technology can explain why?
 
Profighost

Profighost

Voltaire said:
Then we have a different opinion about what is inspiring.
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Seems so.

For someone who has not found his suiting wm/de yet, of course this thread is helpful and inspiring.
I knew it from myself:
You're searching for screenshots, because you don't want to install every wm/de just to get a first impression.

Years ago I decided for fvwm2 and am pretty satisfied with it.
For sure fvwm is neither the only one, nor may the single best one there is.
fvwm simply is a sophisticated one, one can be fully satisfied with,
if clearness and configurability has top priority,
and not modern, cool looks, or many preconfigured features.

Which of course is also personal taste completely,
and can be said about other WMs, too.

And I also speak for myself if I say, I'd prefer plain wallpapers.
Besides it's very individual taste if you use a ([pretty] manga) girl, a rocker, a motorcycle, or whatever,
since for me any picture simply kills clearness and distracts me from what I'm actually interested in:
how the window decorations look, which elements are there,...the structure...what can be done...

Under Windows I had app. >200 icons on my desktop.
So I grouped them.
I used a self painted wallpaper consisted of squares in different colors to have areas for the groups.

Since I don't have any icons anymore (don't need it, I'm using BSD, I have a shell 😁)
I simply has plain colored background.

And - as I already said twice - sometimes for some in this thread to me it seems the priority seems to be for showing off wallpapers.
Which - again - is no problem to me, since it's personal taste.
But to me I don't see no benefit in showing off nice pictures.

A new idea what to be placed on the desktop,
a new way how to arrange (terminal) windows,
something useful to be placed in the decoration...
would inspire me.

E.g. in my windows title bar on the top left I have selfmade buttons,
which send the window to another page.
Something like that would inspire me.

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But not seeing the same wm/de with different wallpapers, colorsettings, and conky (Which I also don't use anymore. As Rolls Royce formerly responded to the question of how many HP a car has - "sufficient" :cool: - I don't need to have an eye on my resources continously.)

Again:
At least not to me.
 
Voltaire

Voltaire

Profighost said:
something useful to be placed in the decoration...
would inspire me.
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For my use, all the most useful things are already there. What I find useful is that I can immediately see the news on the desktop, without having to open a browser, use a search engine to find a news site, open a news site. Same for the weather forecast. I also need to be able to see the time and I need to be able to control the volume via Polybar, which is currently the case. What I also find useful is that you can minimize/maximize/close apps with one simple mouse click. I can also do this via the extension that I use in Polybar. All the rest of the stuff, frankly, has next to zero impact on my overall productivity. I don't need desktop icons either, dmenu works very fast and it's really amazing how fast my workflow is with bspwm. You will not be able to speed this up significantly with any setup. A useful keybinding is the following:

super + Right
bspc desktop -f next

super + Left
bspc desktop -f prev

This way you can quickly change workspaces with the keyboard. (But this is also possible with the mouse and Polybar.)

Profighost said:
E.g. in my windows title bar on the top left I have selfmade buttons,
which send the window to another page.
Something like that would inspire me.
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You can easily configure and create these kinds of things in bspwm. To give an example:

# move focused window to the next workspace and then switch to that workspace
alt + shift + {Left,Right}
id=$(bspc query --nodes --node); bspc node --to-desktop {prev,next}; bspc desktop --focus next; bspc node --focus ${id}

In bspwm you can learn about some outstanding cool config variation about once every other day.
But this is not kind of a thing and frankly very simple to do in bspwm, it has next to no difficulty whatsoever.
I wouldn't call it particularly inspiring either.
 
blackbird9

blackbird9

Ogis said:
Profighost said:
Nah. :cool:
In my eyes this thread is more of "who posts the fanciest looking desktop" or sharing the proud "hey, look at my cool looking desktop",
which is mostly done by the wallpaper, translucent shells, and conky.
It's okay to me.
I barely find something inspiring me here.
I may called puristic (my current desktop I have posted somewhere page fortyidontknowanymore), but I learned about UI at university, and I'm very focused on the efficiency of usage.
So I don't use any pictures as wallpapers for ages, since they look cool only, but simply kill the clearness,
as translucent shells are the same.

But let the guys have their fun.
After all I see it as some kind of advertisment for FreeBSD, since it shows how individual FreeBSD can be tailored,
and fancy looking stuff sells.

To do an impudent joke at the end:
Maybe if one has problems with concentration anyway,
distracting things don't carry so much weight 😁
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Nostalgic, and great Desktop, i love work in that. There's also that nostalgic vibe, if that appeals to you
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Fair enough. But perhaps you missed my desktop "wallpaper" is a near real-time photo of the planet taken from a geostationary weather satellite. It gets updated every hour, from eumetsat in darmstadt. I find it interesting to check the cloud patterns and correlate those to weather on the ground. I used to run xearth, but now do it this way. It's also fun to think this would be the view if you were sitting out in geostationary orbit with a laptop :)
 
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