{"id":34754,"date":"2025-09-28T07:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34754"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:22:35","slug":"and-now-endeavouros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34754","title":{"rendered":"And Now, EndeavourOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took a little elbow grease to get the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.all-day-breakfast.com\/wmx\/\">WMX window manager<\/a> working on EndeavourOS, but after the experimentation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34750\">to make the window frames dark instead of light<\/a> it wasn&#8217;t anything difficult at all.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_20250927_205815.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of EndeavourOS with the WMX window manager with two windows open (files and a terminal). The Enterprise-D is the desktop wallpaper.\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34752\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_20250928_080335.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of the rofi application menu in EndeavourOS\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34753\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The biggest issue was in getting the terminal to launch, since that&#8217;s the only application in the left-click menu.<\/p>\n<p>WMX is coded to launch <code>x-terminal-emulator<\/code> 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.<\/p>\n<p>I made a symbolic link to <code>xfce4-terminal<\/code> for <code>x-terminal-emulator<\/code> and all was good.  A terminal now opens when I want a new terminal. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll use this setup, but it&#8217;s there.  On EndeavourOS, I&#8217;m quite happy with my i3 tiling window manager set-up.<\/p>\n<p>Why I have multiple Linux distros running, besides generally being weird and nerdy, is a story for another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 launcher<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34754\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;And Now, EndeavourOS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[763],"tags":[5305,5291,5140],"class_list":["post-34754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-endeavouros","tag-linux","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}