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[rufwoof]

I was looking at putting a borderless terminal/console window on the desktop as part of the default 'background' ... so cli commands could be easily entered directly on the desktop. Eterm looked to be a good candidate for supporting transparency and borderless windows and I started with a .jwmrc entry of

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<StartupCommand>Eterm --no-cursor -O --buttonbar 0 -g 80x34+170+120</StartupCommand>

as one of my startup commands.


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But then it struck me jwm caters for groups, such that you can set those sorts of settings within jwm itself i.e. include a .jwmrc entry such as

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<Group>
    <Class>Eterm</Class>
    <Option>nolist</Option>
    <Option>noborder</Option>
    <Option>notitle</Option>
    <Option>sticky</Option>
</Group>

I haven't experimented very far with that yet, but conceptually you might have other borderless choices on the desktop, perhaps htop for instance, that has no menu, no border and that doesn't appear in the tray/tasklist i.e. just sits there as part of the normal desktop background.

[rufwoof]

Bit of tweaking of Eterm font size and screen position/size, along with mc (file manager and mc -e editor), sc (spreadsheet), and using mpv as a radio station player ....


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[tallboy]

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

tallboy

[musher0]

You can do it to any application window.

[tallboy]

That would be a nightmare with 10 open and overlapping windows!

tallboy

[LateAdopter]

Hello rufwoof

Could you explain what "Class" is, please? I use "Name" to set ROX-Filer to "tiled" and gnome-mpv to "centered", but Joe Wing's configuration page does not explain the keywords.

Also, there are some extra options in 2.3.7, that I haven't tried yet. I swapped xenialpup64 to 2.3.7 from Artful. I just copied over the jwm binary after checking the dependencied with ldd first.
It has a new dependency on libpng16, which is the first package I have had from packages.ubuntu.com, that trashes the xenialpup64 707 savefile because it has a symlink across the gap between /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. Fortunately I have plenty of backup savefiles.

[rufwoof]

Hello rufwoof

Could you explain what "Class" is, please? I use "Name" to set ROX-Filer to "tiled" and gnome-mpv to "centered", but Joe Wing's configuration page does not explain the keywords.

They're very similar LateAdopter ... https://joewing.net/projects/jwm/config.shtml#groups. 2nd string in WM_CLASS i.e. if you open a window such as galculator and then in a terminal run xprop | grep WM_CLASS and then use the mouse to click on the galculator window the result is

WM_CLASS(STRING) = "galculator", "Galculator"

and that "Class" is that second value ("Name" is the first value)

[LateAdopter]

Thanks rufwoof. Now I know what it means.