Hallo Graeme,

Du schriebst am Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:47:18 +0100:

> I never have "effects" enabled - I don't see the need for them.
> 'top' shows things as they are (well, so I believe).

At least, it's comparable if used on different setups. And as it's kind of
a left-over from text console times, there's no suspicion that it might
hide a certain base load of its host desktop.

> JWM doesn't display desktop icons either. It has a "click anywhere on
> the desktop to show the menu", which I find much better. I also have
> custom sub menus with my most-used items.

Reads a lot like what openbox does. Although openbox also has a
configuration program and a menu editor, though everything can be modified
directly in its configuration files also.

> It's JWM not JVM. ;-)  OpenSUSE, FreeBSD any many others don't have

Oops - misread this... And lo', Arch _does_ bring a jwm package, albeit in
its "community" section (which is managed by the maintainer also). Already
requested.

> JWM as a package option either. I always install JWM directly from the
> source. It has very little dependencies (pretty much uses Xlib and
> libPNG only). It is very simple to compile, and compilation takes just
> a few seconds.

Interesting. I'll definitely check it out.

> JWM uses it's own config/menu file (XML based), but very easy to edit

Very similar to openbox, then.

> by hand. I also recommend you Google for a binary file 'jwm-xdgmenu'

Well, since google's recent anti-privacy statement I don't consider them
eligible for recommendation any more. (Short form: We will gahter any data
we can about your doings, and we will do anything to make money from it.)

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