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• I use the old school, lightweight Window Maker[1] window manager[2] on Debian
• Unstable.
• Gallery: /home/tilde/Projects/gopherhole_bore/assets/posts/window-maker/
• Since Window Maker is only a "window manager" and not a full environment it may
• feel backwards to use it in 2024, there's a lot of things you may miss, a lot of
• work to do from a fresh install.
• I'm biased toward selecting apps that are more Window Maker-like in some way or
• just fit the feel.
• You may also want to take a look at Window Maker Live[3]. Possibly a good way to
• try (or even install) a Window-Maker-centric Debian setup.
• My Window Maker setup
• ## Reasons you may want to use Window Maker
• * Looks very cool
• * Lots of handy (and just plain cool) dockapps (think built-in system info
• tools)
• ## Things I want to add to this article
• - [ ] key ring manager
• - [ ] custom obj for wmcube (maybe write a script)
• - [ ] my amor buddy--could share.
• - [ ] deja-dup
• - [ ] cursor theme
• - [ ] icon theme
• - [ ] power daemon management (efficient/battery save vs performance)
• - [ ] touchpad
• - [ ] i don't like middle click paste.
• - [ ] xsreensaver lock broken? hotkey... startup problem?
• - [ ] battery performance change (like battery savery mode)
• - [ ] adjust brightness with gui
• - [ ] tap touchpad to click
• ## Window Maker-specific and Appearance
• you should really read the manual...
• ### Preset themes
• This is amazing: https://git.x1b.dev/waterjones/WindowMaker-Themes
• Nokia theme from waterjones
• You can save your own theme using:
• ```
• getstyle -p ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes/MyTheme
• ```
• For more info see: https://www.windowmaker.org/themes/themepacks.html
• ### handy hotkeys
• f11: like alt tab, but a nice list
• ### How does this all work?
• Some general tips:
• try right clicking icons that pop up and goign to attributes. look through all
• the options. you can't just drag *anything* to the dockapp or clip. You can even
• set things to minimize to their icon in the dock.
• Practical Workflow Tip
• Use the Dock for things you want to launch.
• Use the Clip to keep track of things you already have open and minimized.
• If you want something to behave like a taskbar entry, keep its mini-icon in the
• Clip with Keep Icon.
• ### The clip
• The clip icon allows you to manage workspaces (page through them, name them).
• You can drag the clip itself to move a bunch of icons with it. Specifically, you
• can pin apps to the clip permanently, just like the dock--then the app will
• always live there for that workspace. The clip is workspace-aware. Use it as a
• lightweight way to keep different sets of apps organized between worskpaces.
• When you drag an app to the clip it will also auto-start minimized in that
• workspace. Beware, this isn't like, just dragging minimized things to it, but
• like things youc an pin to the dock you can also pin to the clip.
• ### GNUStep .appsm openstep de
• You can install something like a DE with `sudo apt install gnustep`, which is
• kind of just a meta for all the `*.app` windowmaker apps that are kinda nifty,
• but also sometimes too severely dated for me to find them useful. I'm not sure
• how useful you'll find these apps day-to-day, but they're fun to look at.
• Try `sudo apt install textedit.app` and run with `openapp TextEdit`.
• Also try `apt search "\.app"`
• These apps will feel right at home! Note when you use `openapp` you'll want to
• use `PascalCase`.
• Some things I noticed:
• * textedit.app -- rtf editor + more? seems kinda cool
• * fontmanager.app
• * gnumail.app seemed interesting, but I have to do extra work to get it to play
• nice with proton mail bridge i think
• * fortunate.app -- simple fortunes. cute toy.
• * gmastermind.app -- classic board game that I think inspired the fallout
• hacking game. dennis ritchi or the like came up with an algo for this i think?
• * gorm.app: visual interface builder for gnustep!
• * grr.app: RSS reader! It's honestly kind of nice! I wish it had support for
• custom commands to fetch RSS like liferea (?) does (so I can grab gopher URI
• feeds)
• * gshisen.app -- some kind of mahjong tile game?
• * gworkspace: i have no idea what this is but seems awesome. might explore
• later.
• * gmpdcon.app -- perfect since I have an mpd server! Even lets you give ratings!
• kind of strange though, i haven't gotten used to it.
• * pikopixel.app -- pixel art editor!
• * preview.app -- maybe the best choice for previewing an image in WM!
• * talksoup.app -- irc client for gnustep
• * terminal.app -- terminal emulator!
• * viewpdf.app
• * Affiche.app -- sticky note app that I actually really like! has a bunch of
• nice features like saving importing/exporting. reminds me also of the dock app
• that does something similar, but affiche.app i could see using frequently.
• * cynthiune.app -- A really neat music player. I think it has troubles adding my
• entire library at once, though.```
• 2025-09-21 12:20:01.408 Cynthiune[439584:439584] MP3.m: no handle...
• 2025-09-21 12:20:01.408 Cynthiune[439584:439584] MP3.m: no handle...
• 2025-09-21 12:20:01.408 Cynthiune[439584:439584] Failed to create pipe ...
• Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=24 "Too many open files"
• 2025-09-21 12:20:01.563 Cynthiune[439584:439584] NSTask.m:593 Assertion
• failed
• in NSConcreteUnixTask(instance), method setStandardOutput:.
• NSInvalidArgumentException
• [1] 439584 segmentation fault openapp Cynthiune
• ```
• ### Dock apps
• Dock apps for Window Maker. Dock apps are such a cool feature of Window Maker.
• Check out dockapps.net[4]!
• You can `sudo apt-get install wm..` for these dockapps I mention below. The
• dockapps I've tried seem to all have good man pages, I think.
• #### What I'm using
• * `wmclock`: I like this because it shows the time and the date as a tear-away
• date pad graphic.
• * `wmbattery` and `wmacpi`: two different battery-relaed dockapps! A special
• note
• for launch command for `wmbattery`:
• * `wmbattery` lets you execute a command when the battery is below critical.
• Here's a command that will send a notification that the battery is critically
• low):
• ```
• wmbattery -c 10 -l 30 -a /home/tilde/Music/sfx/sosumi.au -x "/usr/bin/espeak
• -v en-us+whisper 'critically low battery' -a 200 -s 130 &&
• /usr/bin/notify-send -w -u critical -i /usr/share/WindowMaker/Icons/timer.tiff
• 'Low Battery' 'Battery at %percent%%, with %minutes% minutes left.'"
• ```
• Note the full/abs/real paths. The audio file is an `.au`, I feel it's kind of
• hard to find `.au` files these days. Also this command seems to do something
• strange to my audio, so maybe don't use `-a`.
• * `wmbubble`, `wmcube`, `wmforkplop`, `wmmon`, `wmtop`: fun and/or informative
• dockapps for system information, a few of which are veyr visually
• interesting/fun to me.
• * `wmbubble`: bubbles and duck--animations get more intense/fills up as the
• system resources get more utilized.
• * `wmcliphist`: keeps (some?) clipboard history
• * `wmsystemtray`: I feel this one is sort of crucial. A system tray for app
• icons
• like `blueman-applet`, `nm-applet`, `redshift-gtk`, or the like.
• * I have some notes about how it can't be ran along side other system trays,
• or
• something?
• * `wmmixer`: I really like the way it looks when I turn the volume up and down
• with this app and the fact that I can twist a graphical knob to do so as well.
• * `wmweather+`: gives me weather data, but it's sort of complicated to use. I
• think you need to find a "metar- station", and define the long+lat, with a
• command like this: `wmweather+ -metar-station SOMEID -location "0.0N 0.0W"`.
• It
• seems to have some neat features if your metar station supports it? You may
• want
• to also get radar image from National Weather Service[5]. Please `man
• wmweather+`.
• * I haven't figured out getting actual forecast working outside of current
• weather
• * `wmweather+ -s SOMEMETARHERE -location "0.0N 0.0W" -radar-uri
• https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/SOMESTATION_loop.gif -radar-crop
• POSXxPOSY+WIDTH+HEIGHT -radar-cross 244x194 -animate`
• * `wmforecast` simple forecast/temperature app. More iconified and simple than
• `wmweather+`. Displays handy info in a hover/tooltip, including forecast. This
• may be the easiest to work with and is perhaps the easiest to work with.
• ##### wmweather+
• This weather dockapp rules. You even get a radar GIF and different weather
• views. The config can be a little confusing though. Here's what I have. I have
• it launch with `wmweather+ -c /home/tilde/.wmweather+/config` and then in that
• config:
• ```
• # METAR station
• -station KSFO
• # Coordinates (Mission, SF)
• -location 37.7599N 122.4148W
• # Bay Area radar loop (KMUX)
• -radar-uri https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/KMUX_loop.gif
• # Crop & animate with crosshair
• -radar-crop 244x134+52+40
• -radar-cross 244x134 animate
• ```
• ##### wmbiff
• wmbiff needs a config i had an example at
• `/usr/share/doc/wmbiff/examples/sample.wmbiffrc`
• ```
• cp /usr/share/doc/wmbiff/examples/sample.wmbiffrc ~/.wmbiffrc
• ```
• supports pop3 and imap i think i was able to configure this to work with
• Protonmail Bridge pretty easily.
• ```
• label.4=IMAP4
• path.4=imap:me@pm.me:password@127.0.0.1:1143
• interval.4=300 # 5 minutes
• action.4=claws-mail
• ```
• I also set this to notify me:
• ```
• globalnotify=aplay /home/tilde/Music/sfx/youvegotmail.wav
• ```
• I don't reall like how this app looks, but its features are great!
• #### Recommendations
• * `wmnut`: Keep track of a Network UPS on the network via NUT
• * `wmitime`: I feel it's a nice, but confusing clock display. I think it
• supports
• Swatch Internet Time[6]
• * `wmfire`: monitor cpu, memory, network, or file with a fiery animation. I
• think
• this is cool, but I think there's maybe a bug where I can't drag it into my
• dock.
• #### Honorable mentions
• These may be handy or neat:
• * `wmoonclock`: shows phase of the moon! can click to view other info. how to i
• configure this?
• * `wmxres`: set the resolution/change between xorg modes!
• * `wmressel`: I think this is basically the same as `wmxres`
• * `wmsun`: displays current day's sun rise and sun set times.
• * `wmshutdown`: button for shutting down
• * `wmstickynotes`: a really great sticky notes dockapp. You click the pad and a
• sticky note pops up you can place anywhere on the screen.
• * `wmpinboard`: notes you can place (and maybe draw in) and have pinned on a
• little corkboard graphic
• * `wmpuzzle`: a sliding puzzle game
• * `wmclockmon`: lcd clock that seems to work well, I just don't like the look.
• Some more:
• * `wmsysmon`: monitors CPU usage, memory, swap, uptime, and interrupts, but I'm
• not very fond of it.
• * `wmgtemp`: system temp dockapp
• * `wmtemp`: system temp app with lcd screen
• * `wmcore`: graph-like display of the usage of each core
• * `wmmon`: monitors realtime CPU load as well as average system load (graph I
• think)
• * `wmcalc`: a little calculator
• * `wmfrog`: I think it's a kind of silly-looking weather app. Launch with
• something like `wmfrog -s METARSTATIONID`.
• * `wmxmms2`: "A dockable XMMS2 client." I don't use xmms2. Seems pretty nice.
• * `wmtv`: I find this interesting and wish I could see it in action! maybe one
• day. video4linux TV player.
• #### I didn't like/didn't work for me
• * `wmbutton`: a grid of buttons which launch apps or whatever
• * `wmail`: email/inbox docklet which wants qmail's Maildir format or mbox.
• * `wmfsm`: disk space avaiable
• * `wmweather`: another weather app. i find it hard to read and I don't like the
• look.
• * `wmrack`: crashes for me. "CD Player and Mixer dock applet."
• * `wmwave`: "statistical information for wireless ethernet."
• * `wmdocker`: I had a note about this working funny. I think it's probably
• better to just use `wmsystemtray` instead.
• * `wmcpuload`: i don't like how it's displayed
• * `wmcpu`: I had a note about it being hard to read, basically.
• #### Not relevant to me, or just other ones I tried
• In this section the DockApps just weren't relevant to me, I didn't care to put
• much time into using them, or they're just here...
• * `wmifs`: I think it's an OK bandwidth usage indicator. I dislike that it
• didn't seem to display the names of the interfaces.
• * `wmmon`: works but its not pretty enough. other apps do same but better.
• * `wmcdplay`: I don't have a CD player on my laptop!
• * `wmget`: maybe a download manager? seems kind of annoying to use.
• * `wmdiskmon`: I get some kind of error. LCD-display-style disk usage monitor?
• * `wmhdplop`: "monitor hard-drive (or partition) activity."
• * `wmnet`: I have a note "broke or too hard configure"
• * `wmdrawer` needs config file. didn't really try. maybe i'm wrong, but I'm
• prety happy with what I think is the built-in drawer thing in Window Maker.
• adding drawers is cool and you can have it autocollect which is super handy.
• #### custom wmcube object
• You can actually use a custom object for the wmcube, but I think it needs a
• weird custom format. Maybe I'll write a conversion script.
• #### Dockapp Archive
• Archive.org archvie of dockapps.windowmaker.org[7]
• #### Making a dock app
• There's a ruby SDK, but I wonder if I could bind haskell to the c++ myself?
• that'd be a great project.
• ruby-dockapp[8]: "Ruby-DockApp is a ruby extention library for making dockapps."
• #### Have a favorite dockapp I haven't mentioned?
• Please email me!
• ### Window doesn't actually focus on click?
• It took me a while to realize, because of my track pad settings, that I would
• think I'm left clicking to swith focus to another window, and it wouldn't bring
• it to the front yet it would focus it. I initially thought it was a bug. Turns
• out I was middle clicking the window instead of left clicking it. Interesting.
• ### Application Menu
• edit `~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu`
• ```
• (
• Debian,
• (
• Applications,
• OPEN_PLMENU,
• "|| wmmenugen -parser:xdg /usr/share/applications/"
• ),
• (Run..., EXEC, "%A(Run,Type command to run)"),
• (
• "Window Maker",
• ("Info Panel ...", INFO_PANEL),
• ("Legal Panel ...", LEGAL_PANEL),
• (Preferences, EXEC, WPrefs),
• ("Refresh screen", REFRESH),
• (Restart, RESTART)
• ),
• (
• WorkSpace,
• (Appearance, OPEN_MENU, appearance.menu),
• ("Arrange Icons", ARRANGE_ICONS),
• ("Clear Session", CLEAR_SESSION),
• ("Hide Others", HIDE_OTHERS),
• ("Save Session", SAVE_SESSION),
• ("Show All", SHOW_ALL),
• (Workspaces, WORKSPACE_MENU)
• ),
• (Exit, EXIT),
• ("Exit session", SHUTDOWN)
• )
• ```
• Just edit the rest through the app editor thing.
• ### Add things to startup
• I add things I want to autostart to the Window Maker autostart script (followed
• by `&`, like below):
• ```
• ➜ ~ cat ~/GNUstep/Library/Window Maker/autostart
• #!/bin/sh
• blueman-applet &
• amor &
• xscreensaver --no-splash &
• xeyes &
• xpenguins -a -b -t "Big Penguins" &
• oneko &
• redshift-gtk -m randr -l 37.8044:122.2712 &
• deja-dup &
• nm-applet &
• ```
• You can actually be more sophisticated than this, because annoyingly, if you
• restart your session or something, everything will get launched AGAIN even if
• it's already running!
• So try something like this:
• ```
• #!/bin/sh
• # runonce CMD [args...]
• # Starts CMD only if no process with the same basename is running.
• runonce() {
• cmd="$1"; shift
• name=$(basename "$cmd")
• pgrep -x "$name" >/dev/null 2>&1 || "$cmd" "$@" &
• }
• # If you want a fresh xsettingsd each login, keep pkill; otherwise just `runonce xsettingsd`
• pkill -x xsettingsd 2>/dev/null
• runonce xsettingsd
• runonce blueman-applet
• runonce amor
• runonce xscreensaver --no-splash
• runonce xeyes
• # runonce virt-manager
• runonce protonmail-bridge
• # For scripts, the process name is the shell (e.g., sh), so use a lock to avoid duplicates
• flock -n /tmp/deadline.lock /home/tilde/scripts/deadline.sh &
• runonce skippy-xd --start-daemon
• runonce xpenguins -a -b -t "Big Penguins"
• # runonce oneko
• runonce redshift-gtk -m randr -l 37.8044:-122.2712
• runonce nm-applet
• runonce deja-dup
• runonce ibus-daemon -drx
• # One-shot tweak (not a daemon; don’t background)
• xset m 20/10 4
• ```
• It's worth mentioning you can just SAVE the wmaker sesssion and load it on
• startup (can be done automatically). But for some reason I prefer this method.
• ### App icons
• I wanted to change the Thunar icon for my launcher (or whatever it's called) so
• I did this and was able to select it through something like *settings > icon
• image*:
• ```
• cp /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.xfce.thunar.png ~/GNUstep/Library/Icons/thunar.png
• ```
• ### GTK theme switch & theme
• Some apps use GTK for their GUI.
• For appearance consistency you may want to install a GTK theme which compliments
• Window Maker and some tool for managing the GTK theme you're using.
• I like to use `lxappearance` to manage my GTK theme (I used `sudo apt-get
• install lxappearance`).
• I installed and use the redmond97 GTK theme[9], specifically the *redmond cde*
• theme, to match the overal purplish thing I have going on. I think it matches
• the *SteelBlueSilk* Window Maker theme.
• For GTK4 there's another project that tries to accomplish this but I just lazily
• used some GTK4 theme called Windows-95 and edited
• `~/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini` and `gtk-theme-name=Windows-95` then logged in
• and out.
• Bonus: https://github.com/mgsander/wmstep/tree/master/WMStep: something I found
• but I didn't get working.
• I went ahead and disabled the GTK window decoration hints or the like in the
• advanced section of WPrefs or something. I think this maybe makes things look
• more consistent.
• #### Icon theme
• There's actually a GNUstep icon theme for GTK I believe:
• https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1239539
• Something like this: `tar -xzf GNUstep.tar.gz -C ~/.local/share/icons`
• Then you can actually use `lxappearance` to change the icon theme, which this
• app is generally pretty useful for tweaking GTK theme stuff, more-or-less.
• I went down a weird path where thunar wasn't picking up on the icon theme and I
• found out I need `sudo apt install xsettingsd`, then create ~/.xsettingsd:
• ```
• Gtk/IconThemeName "GNUstep"
• Gtk/ThemeName "Redmond97 CDE"
• Gtk/FontName "Noto Sans 10"
• Net/IconThemeName "GNUstep"
• ```
• and make sure xsettingsd autostarts with gnustep by adding it to
• ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart and add:
• ```
• killall -q xsettingsd
• xsettingsd &
• ```
• or the like.
• You may also wanna try the Chicago95 theme.
• ```
• git clone https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95.git
• cd Chicago95
• ./installer.py
• ```
• You get cursors, sounds, fonts... i actually updated my ~/.xsettingsd to look
• like this:
• ```
• #Gtk/IconThemeName "Chicago95"
• Gtk/ThemeName "Redmond97 CDE"
• #Gtk/FontName "Noto Sans 10"
• #Net/IconThemeName "GNUstep"
• # Icon Theme
• Gtk/IconThemeName "Chicago95"
• # Cursor Theme (The correct name for the large, animated version)
• Gtk/CursorThemeName "Chicago95_Animated_Hourglass_Cursors_HiDPI"
• # Font
• Gtk/FontName "Plus! 8"
• # Compatibility settings
• Net/IconThemeName "Chicago95"
• Net/ThemeName "Redmond97 CDE"
• ```
• I feel like Chicago95 is fine until I find something that more suits my late 90s
• linux vibes.
• I actually installed my own cursors, you can check this place out for more:
• * https://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-library/set-40
• Although the cursor I'm using is Golden-XCursors-3D-0.8 from Gnome-Look[10] and
• setting this in my `.xsettingsd`:
• ```
• Gtk/CursorThemeName "Gamma.Gold"
• Gtk/CursorThemeSize 48
• ```
• ### Adding hotkeys
• You can add hotkeys by editing the Window Maker menu through WPrefs, under
• *Applications Menu Definition*. I like to create a special *submenu* that holds
• all the *run program* entries which have hotkeys associated to them.
• For example, I set lock (`xscreensaver-command -lock`) to my super key + l.
• I think sometimes (?) you may need to restart the session for hotkeys to come
• into effect.
• #### Control Screen Brightness
• Use `brightnessctl set 10%-` and `brightnessctl set 10%+` then add to menu and
• assign hotkeys.
• ## Laptop: power management
• I use `powerprofilesctl`, you can use commands like:
• ```
• powerprofilesctl set power-saver
• powerprofilesctl list
• powerprofilesctl get
• ```
• I'd like to have a GUI solution.
• ## Essential programs
• ### Other/quick mentions
• * RSS: Liferea
• ### Login manager
• I recommend using LightDM as your login manager. One thing I like about it is I
• can switch the environment/WM I log into. This can be handy because sometimes
• you come across something like how Waydroid only runs in Wayland.
• ### Archivers
• xarchiver
• ### Browsers
• `firefox-esr`My main web browser is just the Debian-provided Firefox. You may
• want to tweak the scrollbar size (that's a thing you can do).
• https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo -- you actually may not want to use the
• repo version and build it from there, because of the time of writing this i'm
• told the repo verison is ten years old.
• https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/blob/master/doc/install.md gopher plugin:
• https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo-plugin-gopher
• ### KeepassXC: Password manager, keyring manager!
• Password manager. In my opinion this is crucial and fantastic for Window Maker,
• because Window Maker doesn't just include an SSH Agent and Secret Service
• integration. I wrote an article about this: using KeepassXC as keyring
• manager[11].
• ### deja-dup
• I just find it's very reliable for backups and easy to use.
• ### audacious
• Audio player.
• The gtk audacious is great! the hotkeys seem to mostly work out-of-the-box for
• what I've used, I think? You can use Winamp skins if you want to go the extra
• mile. If you want to go even further, milkdrop is available for linux.
• Don't forget, if you use the Winamp skins, you can right click the titlebars in
• audacious and then select attributes--disable the titlebars! A good thing to
• know in general. I also like making it 2x scale (but that's by right clicking
• the actual Winamp content/pane).
• Please see my phlog article on projectM (old winamp/milkdrop) visualizations.
• ### Language switcher
• I'm using IBUS.
• IBus is an intelligent input bus for Linux/Unix.
• it shows up as a language switcher in the system tray. i don't know how or why.
• i can switch with super + space.
• ### Thunar
• I feel like Thunar is a wonderful file manager with a great amount of features
• and fits the Window Maker feel and lightness and kidn of retro look.
• ```
• sudo apt-get install thunar
• ```
• For thumbnails you may also want to install `tumbler`.
• ### Bluetooth and Wifi GUI
• These two apps will enable a GUI through the system tray (dockapp).
• I use `nm-applet` for all my needs. I add it to `autostart`.
• i also use `blueman-applet` (you can just install through `blueman` package),
• add it to `autostart` for Window Maker.
• ### xfce4-terminal
• I find that this is a nice terminal to use in Window Maker.
• ### Screenshots
• Windowmaker has its own built-in screen capture you can configure undder
• keyboard shortcut preferences in wprefs.
• Scrot and Maim didn't seem to work well with WindowMaker hotkey or the like. So
• I'm using `xfce4-screenshooter`, which seems to segfault if I capture window
• border when capturing the active window.
• I made two entries:
• * Active window (alt + prt scr): `xfce4-screenshooter -w --no-border`
• * Default (prt scr): `xfce4-screenshooter`
• ### xscreensaver
• The power management features are also nice and it provides the ability to lock
• the screen.
• don't forget to add to autostart
• For images you may be able to set both the text manipulation and the random
• image to atom/rss feeds:
• * https://planet.debian.org/rss20.xml - debian news
• * You can search a "booru" like Konachan which has wallpapers and provides
• RSS/ATOM feeds for search results, and you can specifically filter by "safe"*
• Some early 2000s, late 90s vibes:
• https://konachan.net/post/atom?tags=SOMETAG+rating%3Asafe
• * https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/rss/index.html
• ### redshift
• I like using redshift to change the color temperature. I installed
• `redshift-gtk` to get the system tray:
• ```
• sudo apt-get install redshift redshift-gtk
• ```
• You can run with a command like `redshift-gtk -m randr -l long:lat`.
• Beware as north is represented as a positive number and west is represented as a
• negative number. This messed me up for a bit.
• Don't forget to add to Window Maker's startup.
• Example `~/.config/redshift.conf` config:
• ```
• [redshift]
• ; Set the day and night screen temperatures
• temp-day=5700
• temp-night=3500
• ; Enable/Disable fade effect (0 or 1)
• fade=1
• ; Set the location provider: 'manual' (for manual geolocation) or 'geoclue2' (for automatic geolocation)
• ;location-provider=geoclue2
• location-provider=manual
• ; Set your location if you're using manual geolocation
• [manual]
• lat=...
• lon=...
• ```
• This is the command that worked for me:
• ```
• redshift-gtk -m vidmode -l 37.7749:-122.4194
• ```
• ### Claws/claws-mail
• I use this email client with Protonmail Bridge[12] and `wmbiff` (mentioned in
• this document).
• Really feels like it fits the spirit of Window Maker, to me.
• I also recommend installing `claws-mail-plugins` and `laws-mail-extra-plugins`.
• #### Configuration
• I think I did create `~/.claws-mail/queue` and set it as the *Preferences for
• current account* then *advanced* tand *put queued messages in* and I used the
• absolute path/realpath, because it complained about the queue directory or
• something. even then it didn't work
• I finally set the queue folder to the IMAP *Drafts* folder or whatever and now
• it works!
• It may also complain about not being able to open signature.
• #### "Fix:" selected item is black-on-black
• You may have an issue where your theme, with Claws, causes the selected item to
• be illegible due to the text vs. background color of a selected item. I found
• this took me a while to figure out, so here I'm going to save you the pain.
• You can edit `~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css` and add these lines:
• ```
• /* Only Claws: its main window has id #mainwindow */
• window#mainwindow *:selected {
• background-color: #3584E4;
• color: #FBF6F0;
• }
• ```
• #### Start reply above the quote
• I think it's a bit dated/annoying for others to have the email you're replying
• to quoted *above* your actual reply message. So you can go into preferences and
• then under "compose" is *templates." There's a "reply" tab and you can do
• something like this:
• ```
• %cursor
• On %d
• %f wrote:
• %q
• ```
• For the above to work you need to disable *compose > writing > replyling >
• replyl with quote by default.*
• ### Bonus software+ apps i like using with
• shotwell for viewing photos
• deja-dup has been good to me. but does it need something to actually launch
• backups in gui more than just running in bg or whatever?
• For torrents I tried using `transmission-qt` for a while, but actually that
• doesn't look right and I experienced some problems with it. I highly recommend
• just using Deluge for torrents. I do think `transmission-daemon` is great for
• servers, though.
• ted https://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/#How_to_install_Ted
• I recommend installing libreoffice-gtk3 for office. lyx seems interesting but I
• haven't used it much yet. also sudo apt install texlive-full
• XMPP client: gajim (seen below, connected to my XMPP server which is also
• connected to my IRC server, edited to respect privacy):
• Gajim XMPP client connected to my XMPP server which is also connected to my IRC server
• ## Set default apps
• sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
• xdg-mime default Thunar.desktop inode/directory
• ```
• ➜ ~ vim .config/mimeapps.list
• ➜ ~ xdg-mime default Thunar.desktop inode/directory
• ➜ ~ update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime
• ➜ ~ mimeopen -d Downloads
• Please choose a default application for files of type inode/directory