NEUROWM: Gulai Otak (686) Release Notes

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NEUROWM: Gulai Otak (686) Release Notes

Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:51 am

NeuroWM is a brand-new window manager and promises to be something like xmonad for C. It is under heavy development, but I thought I give it an own spin because it actually works quite well for me (I had it run 24 hours non-stop without hickups).

The configuration is for the advanced user, because you need to write your neurowm configuration file yourself. There are two examples added, the Gulai Otak release starts with a simple (minimal) default and relies on xbindkeys (F1: 9menu, F2/F3: dmenu)

To prevent conflicts with the default keybinds, I mapped x-terminal-emulator to Shift + Return. You can of course change this by editing .xbindkeysrc.

Optically (and in its behavior) neurowm indeed feels like xmonad (or sscrotwm) and works very well with trayer/stalonetray. The developer (apparently a fan of dzen2) added his neurowm.c (also see ~/neurowm/conf) so you can copy stuff from there.

I shall mention it again, this release is not for beginners.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... o/download

291MB, username: user, password: bbq, installable with "sudo bbqinstaller".

References:
https://github.com/nnoell/neurowm
https://github.com/nnoell/neurowm/wiki
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Re: NEUROWM: Gulai Otak (686) Release Notes

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:11 am

Wow. Xmonad on C.

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Re: NEUROWM: Gulai Otak (686) Release Notes

Unread post by franksinistra » Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:09 pm

Gulai Otak, the Malayan/ Indonesian for Brain Gulai
nice name bacon!

downloading now
rice no more.

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Re: NEUROWM: Gulai Otak (686) Release Notes

Unread post by bones » Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:07 pm

Looks like a good one, I will check it out.

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Re: NEUROWM: Gulai Otak (686) Release Notes

Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Jul 15, 2014 5:31 pm

^ It's literally brand new, I found it yesterday and it was released that day :)
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Re: NEUROWM: Gulai Otak (686) Release Notes

Unread post by archvortex » Sat Jul 19, 2014 2:54 pm

Gulai otak? Hahaha!! @franksinistra, is that like curried brains? Maybe Padang food? It's made me hungry and it's a new and shiny wm so I better download it. Thanks MB!!
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