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WM means "Windows Manager".
'Windows Manager' + 'File Manager' = 'Explorer' in Win XP
The windows Manager that comes with Puppy 1.0.5 is called JWM. Personally I prefer another WM called IceWM (available as a DotPup), which is very easy to use. FVWM95, the default WM prior to version 1.0.5, is now available as a PupGet package. The behaviour of WM is steered by configuration files, e.g. for jwm this is /root/.jwmrc. They are loaded once the graphical desktop boots up. So if you make changes to these files, you may need to restart the WM (e.g. by Start -> Shutdown -> Restart...)
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Install:
All modifying can be done by editing the config files
in /root/.icewm (hidden).
Define Hotkeys:
- Edit /root/.icewm/keys (backup first!). It's in a hidden
directory. To see the directory, right-click in Rox, choose
'Display -> Show Hidden'. See a sample file here.
Set Preference:
- Edit /root/.icewm/preferences. Use the search function
of any text editor to find the item you want to change.
- Example:
# ShowTaskBar=1 # 0/1
this entry means that task bar is shown by default,
to hide the task bar, change the line to:
ShowTaskBar=0 # 0/1
symbol '#' is used to comment out the line,
you need to remove it after making any changes.
- More
Window Options:
- Edit /root/.icewm/winoptions
- Example:
mozilla-bin.dTitleBar: 0 = don't show Mozilla's title bar
- More
Start Menu:
- Edit /root/.icewm/menu
- Example:
prog Bubbles ballorange16 bubbles.tcl
below the line menu Games face-win24 {
will add a program called "Bubbles" in the Games
sub-menu, with the icon "ballorange16" (located in
/usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons). Click on the entry will
execute "/usr/local/bin/bubbles.tcl"
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Usage:
- Press 'Ctrl+Esc' to bring up the Start Menu.
Move the menu and sub-menus up and down by rolling
the mouse wheel.
- Press 'Ctrl+Alt+Space' to get a quick command line in
task bar
- To put an icon on the right side of the task bar: right-click
a window's title bar and select Tray Icon.
- If you don't want IceWM set the background, exit to the
prompt (Ctrl+backspace) and restart X by typing "startX
icewm"
Themes:
- If the theme is available as a DotPup, install it like
you would with any DotPup. If you downloaded a
theme.tar.gz file from somewhere else:
1. From the start menu select
"Utilities --> guiTAR archiver" (or TkZip)
2. Open the downloaded file
3. Extract the file. It extracts to a new folder.
4. Move the whole folder to: /root/.icewm/themes
5. Your new theme will appear in the 'Themes' menu of
the start menu.
- Create your own theme
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Define Hotkeys:
- Edit /root/.jwmrc (backup first!). It's in a hidden
directory. To see the directory, right-click in Rox, choose
'Display -> Show Hidden'.
- For example, adding this line:
exec:dillo /usr/share/doc/index.html
to root/.jwmrc, Puppy help pages will popup when you
press F1.
- To run rxvt by pressing Ctrl+F2 you can use
exec:rxvt
- C is the modifier to use Ctrl+ key combinations. Other
alternatives would be: "S" shift+key,
"M" alt+, "SC" shift+control+key
- More explanation
- Since Puppy 1.0.5 we now has a GUI configuration tool,
jwmConfig. Launch from the menu: Start -> Control Panel ->
JWM configuration.
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Define Hotkeys:
- Edit root/.fvwm95rc (backup first!). It's in a hidden
directory. To see the directory, right-click in Rox, choose
'Display -> Show Hidden'.
- For example, adding this line:
Key F1 A A Exec dillo /usr/share/doc/index.html
to root/.fvwm95rc, Puppy help pages will popup when you
press F1.
- If you configure your keys here, they can not be used in
applications. So you might want to setup more rarely used
keys. To run rxvt by pressing Ctrl+F2 you can use
Key F2 A C Exec rxvt
- See the difference to the example above ?
C is the modifier to use Ctrl+ key combinations. Other
alternatives would be: "A" single key, "S" shift+key,
"M" alt+, "SC" shift+control+key, ... see the .fvwmrc95rc for
other examples.
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Install:
- Download it from this page. Click to install. See the page
for more information.
- You also need to download the xinitrc.pup from the same
page. This will ask you to overwrite .xinitrc, click on ok.
- Please reboot before and immediately after installation.
- To start XFCE:
- kill X (press ctrl+alt+backspace)
- type: xwin xfce4
- to start XFCE with ROX as the icon manager type
xwin xfce-rox instead
- To start JWM:
- kill X (press ctrl+alt+backspace)
- type: startx jwm
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Using a WM other than the default one can be risky.
Use at your own discretion. If encounters problem,
press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill X and type startx jwm
to switch back to the default WM.
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PuppianL
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