Dragging window borders

[nassausky]

Hi again,

This is a unique question which may seem easy but might not be easy to solve. I have noticed in different versions of linux that dragging the window vertical and horizontal edges isn't as easy as a Windows client. Is there some way to make the border edges thicker so that it gives me more leeway to easily stretch the window? In this case I'm once again using chickenwings which is using Jwm.

I can't get over how fast the boot speed is. My only close contender in the ubuntu/debian area is Antix.

:)

[pidsley]

The jwm documentation is very good.

http://www.joewing.net/projects/jwm/config.shtml

Check out the "window style" section.

http://www.joewing.net/projects/jwm/config.shtml#window

jwm with WindowStyle "Width" set to 6.



This is also covered in the man page ("man jwm")

[nassausky]

Wow I think chickenwings defaults to openbox. I can't find a jwm process running and I see in settings there is an openbox config setting. I like the version you left in your scrot. Which linuxbbq is that the default?

I will look for screen border size (window style width) for openbox and see if can find the config file to edit it.

Thanks for the direction.

[nassausky]

Thanks again @pidsley I found it. I thought I was on JWM since I'm can't tell the difference between jwm and openbox but more importantly the linuxbbq main page says chickenwings uses JWM.

To change the border width I found it was just edit the file /usr/share/themes/<theme name here>/openbox-3/themerc, and set the following:

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border.Width: 1
window.handle.width: 0

then type in the below into terminal to restart the window manager

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openbox --restart

Even more interesting is I learned something else too that I didn't have to change the border size since there is a keyboard trick which is holding down the ALT button and dragging the RIGHT mouse button inside near the edge of the window and it will resize the window without needing to get the mouse exactly on the edge.

Should I note somewhere in another post that the homepage says JWM when it seems it boots to openbox instead or did I miss something after downloading the ISO image.

Thanks very much for the info.

[machinebacon]

Simply do it like this:

- sudo apt-get install jwm
- change the last line in ~/.xinitrc to "exec jwm"
- there must be a ~/.jwmrc file in your ~/ folder (if not, then ... it's not chickenwings you're using - maybe BORK! ?)
- if not, visit https://github.com/linuxbbq/wm-configs/tree/master/jwm

[machinebacon]

Okay back from checking the chicken.

Nassausky, I booted into the Live session of chickenwings and checked - everything is OK, there is no Openbox installed on the uploaded ISO, it does not link to another ISO, and so far other users have not experienced what you described. No idea where the problem is, but the problem is definitely not the ISO that we put on the server. I took a screenshot:

So you have two choices:

1) get the ISO http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... o/download
2) ask me nicely for the config file ;)

or simply check your home folder for a file named .jwmrc (if it IS chickenwings, there is this file), in this case you only need to edit ~/.xinitrc as I wrote above. Whatever the fuck happened there.

[nassausky]

Goodmorn,

I think I need some smelling salt to wake myself up. I originally installed chickenwings but wound up using bork. I wound up remastering (taking a snapshot of it with my new background) and was playing with it so much that I forgot it was bork.

Thanks for clarifyijng my confusion.

[rhowaldt]

aha! glad that got sorted :D

[machinebacon]

lol - thanks.