I publishing video to #lbry again!
Glad to be back! Just uploading video to LBRY for now. No plans to upload again to Youtube. I'm in my new workshop and been working on some retro computer and linux stuff. -- Matthew
@10leej I voted #xmonad... even though I haven't used it. I just know that it is a favorite of @derek. I've used #bspwm before and it was my first real introduction to tiling window managers.
Right now I'm playing around with a relatively unknown wm #nimdow, which is written in the Nim programming language that I am interested in. It's beta software, but works fine for the most part.
@EdBoatConnoisseur I'm not using the xfce part much, as I'm using it as a base to experiment with tiling window managers (#nimdow to be specific).
There's a lot of things I really like about it. Wrote a couple posts and replies about my experience so far. I'll probably be writing some blog posts and maybe a few videos, too.
I won't be using the default mxlinux settings, so I won't make a judgement about that.
As I suspected, it didn't end up working as I initially thought it might... but I think I can get it working by putting #nimdow and a few other things in /opt
It did retain the packages I had installed, including the manually downloaded and installed .deb of alacritty so alacritty was installed and working on the live boot USB I made, even though that program isn't in the mx or debian repositories.
The #AppImage of LibreWolf that I put in /opt also worked invoked with full path from terminal.
I'm trying out the mx-snapshot tool in
The concept is intriguing.
You set up the computer how you want it and then can make an iso of the system. Two options, one that retains personal accounts and data for backup purposes and one that removes accounts so that you can distribute the iso to others.
I'm trying out the "distribute the iso to others" feature... but I think it will break what I was trying to do as I had the binary and config for #nimdow in my own user account.
I installed #mxlinux on my ThinkPad T420s and then proceeded to modify it and experiment.
Installed kitty and alacritty terminals. Had to go searching github for older releases of alacritty that had a .deb file. Found one marked with "ubuntu", which installed fine on
based mx.
git cloned the source for the #nimdow tiling window manager and compiled. Had to install extra packages before nimdow would launch: libxft-dev libxinerama-dev
Created /usr/share/xsessions/nimdow.desktop