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I've been an #fvwm user for a long time (early 2000's) and I've always appreciated it being more configurable than any other window manager out there.

But lately, there's been a few excellent scriptable window managers popping up that have it beat. After many random attempts, I've finally switched the main desktop to #awesomewm

The biggest challenge has been how to make it not look so darn flat. I like my #cde / #motif / #4dwm / whatever style borders, so getting that implemented in awesomewm took me an embarrassingly long time, but the fact that I was able to do it, is certainly a testament to it's customizability.

Video of what it looks like:

https://toobnix.org/w/a2fuZ7zcdWfESMvfbigN3U

#gopher post with details: gopher://gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2026/20260520

git repo: https://linkerror.com/git/jns/awesomewm_config/src/branch/main/

I've been an #fvwm user for a long time (early 2000's) and I've always appreciated it being more configurable than any other window manager out there.

But lately, there's been a few excellent scriptable window managers popping up that have it beat. After many random attempts, I've finally switched the main desktop to #awesomewm

The biggest challenge has been how to make it not look so darn flat. I like my #cde / #motif / #4dwm / whatever style borders, so getting that implemented in awesomewm took me an embarrassingly long time, but the fact that I was able to do it, is certainly a testament to it's customizability.

Video of what it looks like:

https://toobnix.org/w/a2fuZ7zcdWfESMvfbigN3U

#gopher post with details: gopher://gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2026/20260520

git repo: https://linkerror.com/git/jns/awesomewm_config/src/branch/main/

I've been an #fvwm user for a long time (early 2000's) and I've always appreciated it being more configurable than any other window manager out there.

But lately, there's been a few excellent scriptable window managers popping up that have it beat. After many random attempts, I've finally switched the main desktop to #awesomewm

The biggest challenge has been how to make it not look so darn flat. I like my #cde / #motif / #4dwm / whatever style borders, so getting that implemented in awesomewm took me an embarrassingly long time, but the fact that I was able to do it, is certainly a testament to it's customizability.

Video of what it looks like:

https://toobnix.org/w/a2fuZ7zcdWfESMvfbigN3U

#gopher post with details: gopher://gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2026/20260520

git repo: https://linkerror.com/git/jns/awesomewm_config/src/branch/main/

I've been an #fvwm user for a long time (early 2000's) and I've always appreciated it being more configurable than any other window manager out there.

But lately, there's been a few excellent scriptable window managers popping up that have it beat. After many random attempts, I've finally switched the main desktop to #awesomewm

The biggest challenge has been how to make it not look so darn flat. I like my #cde / #motif / #4dwm / whatever style borders, so getting that implemented in awesomewm took me an embarrassingly long time, but the fact that I was able to do it, is certainly a testament to it's customizability.

Video of what it looks like:

https://toobnix.org/w/a2fuZ7zcdWfESMvfbigN3U

#gopher post with details: gopher://gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2026/20260520

git repo: https://linkerror.com/git/jns/awesomewm_config/src/branch/main/

I've been an #fvwm user for a long time (early 2000's) and I've always appreciated it being more configurable than any other window manager out there.

But lately, there's been a few excellent scriptable window managers popping up that have it beat. After many random attempts, I've finally switched the main desktop to #awesomewm

The biggest challenge has been how to make it not look so darn flat. I like my #cde / #motif / #4dwm / whatever style borders, so getting that implemented in awesomewm took me an embarrassingly long time, but the fact that I was able to do it, is certainly a testament to it's customizability.

Video of what it looks like:

https://toobnix.org/w/a2fuZ7zcdWfESMvfbigN3U

#gopher post with details: gopher://gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2026/20260520

git repo: https://linkerror.com/git/jns/awesomewm_config/src/branch/main/

Kinda frustrated with the state of #desktops in #Linux / #BSD / #Unix

You can either have a fully functional, but kind of frustrating-to-use (too mouse-centric) desktop with Gnome or KDE Plasma, or you can have a lean, efficient, and fast wm/compositor like #i3, #sway #awesomewm #evilwm, #cwm, #bspwm, or whatever you like, BUT you will constantly be scratching your head when #Gnome and #GTK programs either start very slowly or refuse to run at all, and are constantly trying to figure out what combination of configuration, daemon, and small animal sacrifices are necessary to do what the big, bloated desktops do automatically.

It's freaking exhausting, and I want to go back to the days that every one just ran #IceWM, #Enlightenment, or #WindowMaker.

P.S., Just for clarity, I really do love #KDE #Plasma. I think it's a wonderful, easy-to-use, and extremely flexible desktop. But sometimes I really don't want a desktop, I just want a lean-and-basic UI that stays out of my way (for home stuff vs. work stuff, generally).

Kinda frustrated with the state of #desktops in #Linux / #BSD / #Unix

You can either have a fully functional, but kind of frustrating-to-use (too mouse-centric) desktop with Gnome or KDE Plasma, or you can have a lean, efficient, and fast wm/compositor like #i3, #sway #awesomewm #evilwm, #cwm, #bspwm, or whatever you like, BUT you will constantly be scratching your head when #Gnome and #GTK programs either start very slowly or refuse to run at all, and are constantly trying to figure out what combination of configuration, daemon, and small animal sacrifices are necessary to do what the big, bloated desktops do automatically.

It's freaking exhausting, and I want to go back to the days that every one just ran #IceWM, #Enlightenment, or #WindowMaker.

P.S., Just for clarity, I really do love #KDE #Plasma. I think it's a wonderful, easy-to-use, and extremely flexible desktop. But sometimes I really don't want a desktop, I just want a lean-and-basic UI that stays out of my way (for home stuff vs. work stuff, generally).

#ViernesDeEscritorio #AwesomeWM #cava #Debian #mocp #MrRobot #ncurses #neofetch #opencubicplayer #pulsemixer #terminator #tmux #tty #yewtube

- https://github.com/jonsafari/mocp
- https://github.com/GeorgeFilipkin/pulsemixer
- https://github.com/karlstav/cava
- https://github.com/iamtalhaasghar/yewtube
- https://github.com/mywave82/opencubicplayer
- https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

#ViernesDeEscritorio #AwesomeWM #cava #Debian #mocp #MrRobot #ncurses #neofetch #opencubicplayer #pulsemixer #terminator #tmux #tty #yewtube

- https://github.com/jonsafari/mocp
- https://github.com/GeorgeFilipkin/pulsemixer
- https://github.com/karlstav/cava
- https://github.com/iamtalhaasghar/yewtube
- https://github.com/mywave82/opencubicplayer
- https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

Je pose ça la c'est franchement sympa et y a pas mal de chose ​:nkoWhoaa:​

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