Hi, I tried icewm, jwm, wmaker and now I am trying fluxbox which looks like a promising candidate. However, fonsts are painfully small on my 17.3 inch laptop screen.
With fluxbox can I configure: a) font sizes, types and styles b) use a wallpaper c) increase the height of the taskbar and the font sizes it uses d) make the general look more esthetically appealing Edward On 01/03/2016, KatolaZ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:41:22PM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Like, I assume many, on this mailing list, know what to do when they >> opt not to install the default window manager or desktop. However, I >> think, XFCE is a good choice, although on my T4400 2GB computer it >> tends to be rather heavy. Window managers are attractive with respect >> to low resource use, but they are unattractive with respect to user >> configuration unless somebody in Devuan decides to write a script or >> an executable to automate user configuration of the most popular >> window managers. The latter is a job I don't know as I have never >> configured a window manager. My eyes, although perfectly healthy, are >> quite dictatorial to me. I need good readability and small fonts are >> out of question to me as they cause too much eye fatigue. I also need >> to have control of display brightness as average brightness is too >> insense for me. >> >> I think, window manager user configuration more or less rests on these >> tasks: >> a) configure some menu structure to access user programs >> b) configure a keyboard structure to access user programs >> c) configure wallpaper and screen saver >> d) adjust font sizes and screen brightness >> > > Hi Edward, > > some of the most widely used window managers ship with a configuration > tool which allows to do tune those things with a few clicks. This is > true for instance in WindowMaker, where WPrefs can configure almost > all the configurable options. This is however not true for other > window managers, especially tiling ones, which usually have just a > configuration file for that, and assume that vi is the best way to > configure your environment (which is not totally bullshit, indeed). > > Unfortunately, the screensaver is another story, mainly for historical > reasons, and brightness adjustment often depends quite heavily on > your hardware... > > HND > > KatolaZ > > -- > [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] > [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] > [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] > [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
