Occasionally, I have a good idea, and occasionally, I can make it work. Case in point. Sometimes I will use an old and obscure window manager for Linux called WMX. It’s minimalist and spartan. No panels, no background, barely a menu. It can launch a terminal and scroll through workspaces. You can set up aContinue reading “Occasionally Clever”
Category Archives: Linux
Customizing XScreenSaver
Who doesn’t love a good screensaver? I’ve been a fan of 3D Pipes going all the back to Windows 95, and I hypothetically might possibly have hacked my computer at Diamond using a Linux live USB to put 3D Pipes onto that Windows 10 machine. Possibly. I can neither confirm or deny. On Linux Mint,Continue reading “Customizing XScreenSaver”
Five Below’s Peanuts Snow Water Speaker
I needed to go to the grocery store this afternoon, and after I went next door to Five Below to have a look around. Today being Halloween, they had their Christmas sections set up, and as I was on my way out the door, something caught my attention. The Peanuts Snow Water Speaker. Snoopy inContinue reading “Five Below’s Peanuts Snow Water Speaker”
Fun with Virtual Machines
Normal people do not run Emacs or build XMMS, a multimedia player, from source in a Linux Mint 5 virtual machine, but, my friends, I am not normal people. FWIW, I’m listening to WFMT’s “Vince Guaraldi’s Christmas Gift to Jazz,” an hour-long program with some Guaraldi music and covers of his music for A CharlieContinue reading “Fun with Virtual Machines”
Gentle Waves
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 released this week, and I upgraded my two machines on Friday. I’ve still been toying with the WMX window manager, and as I did with EndeavourOS, I integrated Rofi menus into the workflow, using the scripts created by Aditya Shakya (and available on GitHub here. I made a custom colorContinue reading “Gentle Waves”
The Dying Days of Windows 10
These are the dying days of Windows 10. It doesn’t really bother me; I made my transition to the land of Tux (the penguin) and Xenia (the transfem fox), in other words, Linux, several years ago, in fits and starts, then much more firmly after the ransonware attack on Diamond. Oh, my computer has WindowsContinue reading “The Dying Days of Windows 10”
And Now, EndeavourOS
It took a little elbow grease to get the WMX window manager working on EndeavourOS, but after the experimentation to make the window frames dark instead of light it wasn’t anything difficult at all. And since my EndeavourOS setup runs the i3 window manager, I had rofi already installed, so I set up a launcherContinue reading “And Now, EndeavourOS”
Desktop Minimalism at Its Finest
I don’t know when I discovered the WMX window manager. Probably about the time I discovered CTWM, when I was exploring the weird, old avenues that Linux had once traveled down. I was struck immediately by how different it looked. Instead of the title at the top of the window, it runs down the side!Continue reading “Desktop Minimalism at Its Finest”
Coverflow!
Things I learned today. The Coverflow alt-tab behavior in Linux Mint even works when you’re playing a Windows game through WINE. I realize that is absolutely cryptic as mud, but I thought it was cool. By “alt-tab,” I mean using Alt-Tab on the keyboard to switch between open applications on your computer. I used toContinue reading “Coverflow!”
Installing LMDE7
The Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 beta, based on Debian 13 Trixie, was released last week. I had been planning to do a clean install, replacing my LMDE6 install and reinstalling the apps I needed, for a lot of reasons — putting the install on my system’s NVMe, LMDE6 was originally installed on an IntelContinue reading “Installing LMDE7”