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[MU]

This is a windowmanager, quite old and fast.
Info: http://www.windowmaker.info/

Download (1.8 MB):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManagers/WindowMaker-0.92.0-i486.pet
or:
http://puppyfiles.ca/dotpupsde/dotpups/WindowManagers/WindowMaker-0.92.0-i486.pet

Screenshot:



full size: http://noforum.de/pics/Wmaker.jpg

It has no taskbar, instead it uses small icons.
So you might like to use it with the Gnome-panel.
lxpanel can not display a taskbar in windowmaker.

Start it with
xwin wmaker

Issues:
You can run a config-tool, it is the 3rd icon from top on the right side.
It does not display pictures.
This is a bug you can find often in google, but I found no solution.

Mark

[trapster]

Damn....another one I must try.

No wonder my save files get filled so fast

[geneven]

After touring window managers again, I return to Windowmaker! It's the only one that's easy enough for me.

I haven't tried this Puppy one, but am about to. I run Windowmaker in Debian Linux (Sidux) but learned to love it in Suse Linux.

[geneven]

I found out how to display pictures in the Window Maker Preferences utility.

I noted that Windowmaker seemed to expect the icons in this directory:

/usr/local/GNUstep/Applications/WPrefs.app/

On another computer, I discovered a /tiffs directory that contained the icons needed

In Puppy, I had to create some empty directories to imitate the path that Windowmaker expected.

Then I put the /tiffs directory and the icons in it in

/usr/local/GNUstep/Applications/WPrefs.app/tiffs

And the picures appeared! As a bonus, you get a slider that gives you more options than you have without pictures.

That seems to solve the problem. There is probably a better solution, but I accept working!

By the way, if anyone tries to install the Windowmaker pup above, note that the command you use to start it, after ctrl-alt-backspace to get out of your other window manager, is

xwin wmaker

I first tried xwin windowmaker but it's no big surprise that didn't work.

Windowmaker is great and easy and I don't understand why its popularity ebbed.

[amigo]

I've been using windowmaker for years and it has me so spoiled with its' good beahoviour that I find it hard to use anything else. Sometimes I play around a few minutes with icewm and it would be my second choice.

I've built up a pretty large collection of wmaker related stuff which you might want to have a look at here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/amigolinux/download/DeskTop/WinMgrs/WindowMaker/

In particular, I have most of the patches ever available for wmaker -the best feature to add is the command history for the run box.
I also got the sound server working so you can have desktop sound events.

The patches are here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/amigolinux/download/DeskTop/WinMgrs/WindowMaker/wmaker-0.92.0/Resources/
And the patch order can be seen here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/amigolinux/download/DeskTop/WinMgrs/WindowMaker/wmaker-0.92.0/WindowMaker.src2pkg

Another very intersting thing is that I run wmaker without the dock or the clip. I can still use dockapps, but they are not in the dock. This cuts down on desktop clutter and menory usage.

My< desktop consists of the ROX-Filer-1.2 for the desktop icons, wmaker and a panel -either taskbar or fbpanel. Very nice and intuitive to use.

I have a collection of nearly 60 DockApps here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/amigolinux/download/DockApps/

All of these DockApps are updated to run correctly with wmaker-0.92.

I also have miniwindows disabled so that there is never any extra clutter on the desktop -otherwise each running applixation will show an extra icon -a minimized apps shows two! I let the panel handle minmized windows so I don't need the mini-windows.

Here's a bit of code which makes the above behaviour work:

[geneven]

Thanks, I'll use what I can. With picante sauce!

[playdayz]

I just posted a newly made pet of windowmaker (that seems fully functional) along with some "instructions" based on my own experience with it.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=32036