Distros of interest

Unread post by **arnold** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 2:03 am

^ I thought that looked pretty 'raw'. It's easy to install from git, add patches, recompile and generally pimp out. Give it a shot if you get time. Alternatively there are old bbq spins that use recompilable dwm (decomposed dromedary and chili(?)). DWM is very nice and worth the time (if you have it).

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:11 am

Or save time and use spectrwm :D

Unread post by **arnold** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:53 am

I've never tried spectrwm. I'd better download Ceramic

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:16 am

It's quite a good tiler, easy to customize. Editing .spectrwm.conf should be enough, but if you want to hack into the keybinds add

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keyboard_mapping = ~/.spectrwm_us.conf

into ~/.spectrwm.conf
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cp /usr/share/doc/spectrwm/examples/spectrwm_us.conf ~/.spectrwm_us.conf

depending on your keyboard layout, of course.

But as said, it actually comes with very sane defaults. Emacs users want to change MOD-x (which deletes the active window in spectrwm) to MOD-Shift-x for example ;) I learned it the hard way ;D

Unread post by **arnold** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 10:06 am

Thank you for that

Unread post by **maso** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 12:34 am

^^ yes, indeed thanks mb. Just started playing with spectrwm and I like it a lot. "Sane defaults" is right. it's got a very clear and comprehensive man page, too.

dwm was the first tiler I ever learned about (all of six months ago) and got comfortable using, so it's been my default. time to think about maybe changing that.

Unread post by **maso** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 12:59 am

oh, and spectrwm's sample config file is practically an instant tutorial on how to customize it. this is awesome.

Unread post by **dkeg** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 1:44 am

Yes, spectrwm is a nice wm. Flexible too, which is nice.

Unread post by **darry1966** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:09 am

Latest slackware based Austrumi 3.3.3 Has Palemoon Browser, MPV, Libreoffice, SpaceFM, Emelfm amongst others and has FVWM as window manager.

ftp://austrumi.ru.lv/

Unread post by **Theo** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:58 pm

I love the FvwM themes from Austrumi, but there is one thing that I don't like.. Austrumi is loading everything in RAM, which is faster. I know. But after closing some programs it doesn't seems to release everything.. So it grows and grows in memory usage. But I get your point, a linuxbbq edition with the looks of Autrumi would be a hell of distro :)

Unread post by **pidsley** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:28 am

^ you could build one -- it's not that difficult :)

But seriously, building a spin with all that might be a bit of work; not to mention much bigger than we like to build right now.

And I can't speak for bacon, but after all the recent upgrade issues, I am done with sid.

Unread post by **Theo** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:41 am

Pidsley I volunteer right now :) It seems to be stupid, and I can build almost everything.. besides a distro on cd or whatsoever :)
Just the last steps are abracadra to me :)

Unread post by **pidsley** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:50 am

^ Great! A properly-configured fvwm spin would be an interesting addition. bacon has a post here somewhere about roasting a spin. I will look for it.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:32 am

pidsley wrote:And I can't speak for bacon, but after all the recent upgrade issues, I am done with sid.

uhum, there'll be an upgrade of Adipositas around New Year, maybe. fvwm, might be interesting to make such a spin (without the GTK bloat), but on the other hand: apt is everybody's friend ;)

Unread post by **darry1966** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 8:39 am

Apt is indeed a very good package manager. the Sid issues can be "interesting" but I still run my Roasted Roach install as Sid. Thank you though for the solutions to issues that crop up eg. Xorg. Also running Academy with Jessie Repos (as per Bacon's post on tracking Debian Jessie) and its very stable with JWM as the desktop with XFE goodness.

Wouldn't mind a Slackware spin to play with sometime but would ceni work with it?

Yes FVWM would be interesting:)

Unread post by **darry1966** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:58 am

http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php/Bbqsnapshot
http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php/Change-user

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 3:00 pm

^ Ceni will not work with Slackware (Ceni stands for "configure /etc/network/interfaces", a file that is not existing in Slack), but it's super easy to set up the network, just needs an edit in the /etc/rc.inet*, or even easier: netconfig. That's why many of us love Slackware: you basically only need a text editor to make your system work as you want it.

Unread post by **darry1966** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:38 pm

That's why many of us love Slackware: you basically only need a text editor to make your system work as you want it.

Thanks fo the info and yes that has been my experience.

Unread post by **GekkoP** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:39 pm

http://ulixos.org/ - The Literate OS

Unread post by **simgin** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 2:32 pm

Have any of you guys tried this distro https://www.plop.at/en/home.html
He is quite a busy guy tbh, his projects look good too.

Cheers
Simon

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