Wednesday, April 15. 2009Found my desktop for live
After some experiments I finally found a desktop configuration I can life with. My first experiment with a somewhat stranger window manager was with Ratpoison. The nicest properties of it are:
Ratpoison is somewhat undermaintained and complicate, but there is awesome. This window manager is new, has a big community and all the good properties mentioned above. But awesome is only a window manager, not a full blown desktop environment like KDE or GNOME. It lacks features like auto mounting, application autostart, session management, etc. So I was very enthusiastic, when I found out about the KDEWM environment variable. This variable tells KDE to use an alternative window manager instead of the standard "kde window manager". The result is here: The KDE symbol in the lower right is not part of the background image, but a KDE widget that gives me the start menu with all applications and session management features (logout, switch user, suspend...): And while working I see only the applications I need, nothing more. Trackbacks
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Den werde ich gleich auch mal ausprobieren. Ich suche schon lange noch etwas bei dem ich die Maus gar nicht mehr oder nur noch sehr wenig nutzen muss.
Könntest du deine Configs irgendwie veröffentlichen?
Es sieht so aus als ob Plasma wirklich überall Hintergrund ist und dass das Systemtray dort oben rechts platziert ist. Danke!!
There's no magic involved in this configuration. Just make sure that the KDEWM environment variable is set before KDE starts.
I made a page in the Awesome-Wiki describing more details.
How did you add those KDE widgets? And how did you setup the system tray?
Thanks!
At that time I simply ran a normal KDE session with the only difference that I set the environment variable "KDEWM" to the value "awesome". You have to put this somewhere that it's executed before KDE starts:
export KDEWM=awesome However I don't run this configuration anymore. Nowadays I run just awesome. I encountered to many issues with KDE, but don't remember the details anymore.
Is there also a way to do that with KDE 3.5.12 (trinity) ? i tried your version mentioned in the awesome wiki but they wont work.
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