Hello everyone,
I challenge everyone to switch from his/hers comfortable desktop environment and try using standalone window manager.
Challenge 1:
Use openbox for 1 week. Easter egg:
menu.xml
categories/multimedia.xml
Read rc.xml carefully to understand how to use more than one menu file. Hint: menu.xml must be last.
Challenge 2:
Use dynamic window manager, you'll have to rely on the knowledge gained from openbox - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/window_manager#Dynamic_window_managers
You are not allowed to use desktop environment related terminal emulator, neither panel programs. Easter egg - http://dotshare.it
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Create a text file and describe your experience at the end of each day. Include your falls, mistakes and share them here to encourage other people reading this thread and also to take a note when they stubmle upon such snafus and deal with them.
Make snapshots after completing each challenge and include them, so others can see what you've achieved, just an example of my dusty rusty 3 core fellow:
Clean: https://i.imgur.com/3FhOT7c.jpg
Busy: https://i.imgur.com/1cFAeDZ.png
Cheers
I challenge everyone to switch from his/hers comfortable desktop environment and try using standalone window manager.
Challenge 1:
Use openbox for 1 week. Easter egg:
menu.xml
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<openbox_menu>
<!--
Every menu category has it's own `xml' file,
see "categories/*.xml". `rc.xml' is responsible
to load them at system startup, and the skeleton
here is responsible to show their content
when you right click.
-->
<menu id="root-menu" label="OpenBox 3">
<menu id="dev" icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza/categories/22/applications-development.png" />
<menu id="graph" icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza/categories/22/applications-graphics.png" />
<menu id="media" icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza/categories/22/applications-multimedia.png" />
<menu id="net" icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza/categories/22/applications-internet.png" />
<menu id="sys" icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza/categories/22/applications-system.png" />
<menu id="hell" icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza/places/22/distributor-logo-archlinux.png" />
</menu>
</openbox_menu>categories/multimedia.xml
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<openbox_menu>
<menu id="media" label="Multimedia">
<item icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/22/kaffeine.png" label="Winff">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>winff</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/22/xfburn.png" label="Xfburn">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>xfburn</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
</openbox_menu>Read rc.xml carefully to understand how to use more than one menu file. Hint: menu.xml must be last.
Challenge 2:
Use dynamic window manager, you'll have to rely on the knowledge gained from openbox - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/window_manager#Dynamic_window_managers
You are not allowed to use desktop environment related terminal emulator, neither panel programs. Easter egg - http://dotshare.it
---
Create a text file and describe your experience at the end of each day. Include your falls, mistakes and share them here to encourage other people reading this thread and also to take a note when they stubmle upon such snafus and deal with them.
Make snapshots after completing each challenge and include them, so others can see what you've achieved, just an example of my dusty rusty 3 core fellow:
Clean: https://i.imgur.com/3FhOT7c.jpg
Busy: https://i.imgur.com/1cFAeDZ.png
Cheers