Nothing To Lose

The X File Explorer

If you are one of those, like me, slowly getting frustrated of too much of eye candy or unnecessary graphics, zip

zap zoom effects and want to get aways from it, window maker can be for you.
Window make will give four desktops, and very less icons on your desktop.

Now if you have become use to KDE you might want certain stuff to get you tuned to get started with window maker.

aterm

First thing that you need to do is get window makers menu. This is available on right click of screen. Please note that the menu will not just disappear off the screen, click on the upper right corner a cross will appear, click on it again.

Usually this menu is not very useful right now, we will see how to modify and get it according to your need later on in some other post.

But the first thing we need to do is get the “Run command dialog” box to get it working with alt+f2 key. So that we can run what ever commands from the dialog box easily.

xchat IRC client

Download/install few other things which you may want for daily work.

1) xfe –  the X file explore. A very light weight file manager, good for the CCP, ie cut copy paste.

2) aterm — a nice terminal — yes we have to leave ‘konsole’ behind. Suggested by Zoyd –
here is a nice combination for:- aterm command “aterm -tr +sb -sh 80 -fg cyan -font -*-fixed-*-14-*-*-iso8859-1″

3) gkrellm with loads of plug-ins.
4) Wvdial to get on to net

gkrellm

5) few text editor.  (vi on aterm is nice)
6) pidgin for all in one messenger
7) xchat for irc.. for more adventurous ones irssi
Was wondering how to take screen-shots, found out that GIMP can do the same. Nice found, in any case used to open the screen-shots to do the same. (start gimp –> file –> create –> new screenshot )

One issue is to get the resolution changing on the fly. use the following command on aterm:
to query modes that are applicable.
xrandr -q
1280×800       60.0*    50.0
1024×768       60.0
800×600        60.0     56.0

the first one or the marked is the current running mode
to change to any other use
xrandr -s 1
will change to 1024×768
to revert back
xrandr -s 0
where
0 is first mode
1 is second mode
2 is the last mode

More later….