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.

Screenshot of EndeavourOS with the WMX window manager with two windows open (files and a terminal). The Enterprise-D is the desktop wallpaper.

And since my EndeavourOS setup runs the i3 window manager, I had rofi already installed, so I set up a launcher that would bring up a rofi menu like I was thinking I could do with LMDE.

Screenshot of the rofi application menu in EndeavourOS

The biggest issue was in getting the terminal to launch, since that’s the only application in the left-click menu.

WMX is coded to launch x-terminal-emulator which is a symbolic link to a terminal on Debian-based systems. An Arch-based system, like EndeavourOS, would have no idea what to do with it, so attempting to run that would produce nothing.

I made a symbolic link to xfce4-terminal for x-terminal-emulator and all was good. A terminal now opens when I want a new terminal. 🙂

I don’t know if I’ll use this setup, but it’s there. On EndeavourOS, I’m quite happy with my i3 tiling window manager set-up.

Why I have multiple Linux distros running, besides generally being weird and nerdy, is a story for another time.

Published by Allyn Gibson

A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over fifteen years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.

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