May 2022 Screenshots

Nili · 2022-05-13 07:52:30

I don't use rounded, picom corner radius only for the screenshot.

hhh · 2022-05-14 04:03:17

I always have liked rounded corners, though. That looks slick, even without compositing to soften the aliasing.

PackRat · 2022-05-14 13:54:54

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Nili · 2022-05-15 12:37:18

hhh wrote:

I always have liked rounded corners, though. That looks slick, even without compositing to soften the aliasing.

They sure do, but when a maximized window is set in my opinion loses it's value. I am a type that like window(S) full open despite not showing on my scrots.

johnraff · 2022-05-15 23:13:09

^Those rounded corners do look good! Can that be done with picom only?
But you make a good point about maximized windows - I imagine they would look kind of messy.
Maybe there's some way to disable round corners when maximized...

hhh · 2022-05-16 04:13:32

^ There is in most WMs, but that's cwm, it's pretty early and basic. Probably doable, though, I'd think.

Nili · 2022-05-16 07:14:41

johnraff wrote:

^Those rounded corners do look good! Can that be done with picom only?
But you make a good point about maximized windows - I imagine they would look kind of messy.
Maybe there's some way to disable round corners when maximized...

Picom or patch the code, I see no other inconvenience using CWM with picom, it works just fine. No slowdowns or any misbehavior.

I read that Awesome, i3-gaps and as hhh said pointed other WM do it autohide round when maximized, would be great feature if picom implement it.

Regarding CWM as is having very plain code, i don't think author will add it as feature. Infact hope they don't do it, i quite like as it is. Just hope the updated version reach sid very soon as i want to test a few more mouse apps bind features they've added. I asked about some stuff on their IRC room formerly.

Edit: without rounded, bar, borders, plain as **** 90MB.

This WM is the most badass. Only takes 6MB from memory.

Interesting

Those two mousebinds do work wonders with apps switcher:

Wheel-Up navigate to all opened applications one by one
Wheel-Down toggle all apps opened to minimized status.

bind-mouse 5-4           group-cycle
bind-mouse 5-5           group-toggle-all

As a maximized type that i am, i leave 1px gap on wm, so i can use mouse wheel navigating apps on every corner of the screen.

gap                      1 1 1 1

For these and similar mouse features i have been talked with CWM makers.
To me this wm is like google homepage, it start with very plain but once one put his hands and heart into it will turn into awesome.

Credits:
Nordic GTK+
firefox-nordic-theme
Tela Icons or get from pling
Nordic backgrounds
The great yad hacking thread about yad exit
DeaDBeeF + GTK3 headbar
Nautilus/Files.

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Jimbo_G · 2022-05-16 09:18:51

johnraff wrote:

^Those rounded corners do look good!

You should install Windows 11, the corners are even rounder than that (it's the only change that I don't actively dislike)

johnraff · 2022-05-17 01:47:30

^Ha Ha.

This machine came with Win 10 preinstalled and when I revised the partitioning I put W10 in a corner of the HDD just in case I should ever need it for a BIOS update or the like. Every time I boot into it (about once a year?) I'm reminded how much I hate it. Not too fired up about trying Windows 11 to be honest.

I can live without round corners, but they are pretty. There's a Wayland compositor, "inspired" by CWM apparently, called Hikari: https://hikari.acmelabs.space/

Some day I suppose we'll have to think more seriously about Wayland, though I'm inclined to wait and let others iron out the bugs first...

Jimbo_G · 2022-05-17 09:42:23

I actually don't know how we're meant to post images on here. Just so you can see what you're missing, here's my Win10 setup. I left the taskbar icons in the middle, as is now the default. The wasted space is huge - in this screenshot I have 4 Excel files open, but there's no way of knowing without mousing over the icon (or using alt-tab). In comparison I actually quite liked Win10, with 11 there are many more annoyances and it's even less customisable. But the round corners are okay

https://imgur.com/a/gQs9lrR

Bearded_Blunder · 2022-05-17 12:30:23

johnraff wrote:

^Ha Ha.
This machine came with Win 10 preinstalled and when I revised the partitioning I put W10 in a corner of the HDD just in case I should ever need it for a BIOS update or the like. Every time I boot into it (about once a year?) I'm reminded how much I hate it. Not too fired up about trying Windows 11 to be honest.

With Classic Shell (Now Open Shell) & some registry tweaks or group policy settings to tame updates so it installs them & reboots each only when you say so, some de-crufting, & something like O&O Shut Up 10, 10 at least can be made liveable with. It's probably as much work to tame it as shrink it & put Bunsen alongside, and even after taming it's still Windows.
I'm not exactly inspired by 11 either only one family member has the hardware for it & i wasn't greatly impressed by the alleged upgrade.

Re firmware updates, it's worth checking a LOT of UEFI based machines allow doing that booted to firmware only & it's becoming an expected feature, some will even fetch the firmware image for doing so, In such cases you can of course reclaim the space rather than keeping Windows around, always worth a good poke round in setup.

Plus once the mainboard hits about it's 3rd birthday, you're usually safe from anymore firmware updates if you're on whatever firmware is current then.

Some day I suppose we'll have to think more seriously about Wayland, though I'm inclined to wait and let others iron out the bugs first...

I second waiting on that one, if the likes of Xfce, LXDE, & LXQt switch (ironing out the pitfalls in the process) then maybe take a serious look.

Nili · 2022-05-18 07:22:53

johnraff wrote:

I can live without round corners, but they are pretty. There's a Wayland compositor, "inspired" by CWM apparently, called Hikari: https://hikari.acmelabs.space/
Some day I suppose we'll have to think more seriously about Wayland, though I'm inclined to wait and let others iron out the bugs first...

That's awesome, Me too it is too early to jump on Wayland due to apps adaptation or bugs. I do not want to install other apps never used just for the purpose of using Wayland. I last tried for about a month Mutter with tint2 helped by dconf-editor. Generally satisfied with Wayland performance with sporadic graphic glitchs when scrolling pages up and down.

As a CWM user i am glad there is a similar like Hikari for Wayland. In my opinion Wayland would have given more attention if Openbox code would transitioned to wayland-protocols instead of i3. i3 is a good WM, but Openbox has more users. For this reason it would attract more attention to Wayland from its users.

PackRat · 2022-05-18 18:59:27

johnraff wrote:

Some day I suppose we'll have to think more seriously about Wayland, though I'm inclined to wait and let others iron out the bugs first...

Do you know if malm is still working on an openbox type window manager for wayland?

malm · 2022-05-18 19:39:35

@PackRat - yes, it's progressing steadily

https://github.com/labwc/labwc#readme

PackRat · 2022-05-18 20:12:25

malm wrote:

@PackRat - yes, it's progressing steadily
https://github.com/labwc/labwc#readme

I went to your git page and saw that. If I get some time. I'll install the AUR package.

malm · 2022-05-18 20:31:25

It's easy to build on Arch. Let me know if you get any trouble. Apart from it being different technology/eco-system, it's very similar to openbox.

Scrot below using BL-Lithium theme.

https://github.com/labwc/labwc

PackRat · 2022-05-19 01:46:30

malm wrote:

It's easy to build on Arch. Let me know if you get any trouble. Apart from it being different technology/eco-system, it's very similar to openbox.

The AUR package failed to build, but building from source was no problem:

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Nice and smooth.

jeffreyC · 2022-05-19 02:19:50

johnraff wrote:

^Ha Ha.
This machine came with Win 10 preinstalled and when I revised the partitioning I put W10 in a corner of the HDD just in case I should ever need it for a BIOS update or the like. Every time I boot into it (about once a year?) I'm reminded how much I hate it. Not too fired up about trying Windows 11 to be honest.

You should check here to see if your hardware is supported:

https://fwupd.org/

If it is you could probably do away with Windows on it.

DeepDayze · 2022-05-19 02:53:15

With all the kerfuffle about Wayland I may try it out as it's the display manager of the future. Until then X11 will still rule the roost in the meantime.

emevillasenor · 2022-05-20 23:20:24

Cheers from Colima, México! 8o

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