JWM?

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Good Day Community,

Was wondering if there are any JWM fans here? Would love to try it on top of Solus. I see openbox is in the repos, which is amazing, gonna give that a go soon.

Cheers,
fatboy

JoshStrobl

[deleted] Would love to try it on top of Solus.

Well we have everything that it needs for compilation, so it should be pretty straight-forward to compile it yourself if you desire. That said, don't really know its value-add over openbox, i3, or xmonad (all of which we have in the repo).

Justin

[deleted] I got bored and had a look, as Josh said, all the dependencies are there. Package.yml if you wanted to build it for your own use locally, let me know how it goes:

name       : jwm
version    : 2.3.7
release    : 1
source     :
    - http://joewing.net/projects/jwm/releases/jwm-2.3.7.tar.xz : 745d2f5df3a4ce9ecc8e75445edb3fbe31dd46c0c26d129cc14de7ad8b665326
license    : MIT
component  : desktop.jwm
summary    : Joe's Window Manager
description: |
    JWM is a light-weight window manager for the X11 Window System.
builddeps  :
    - pkgconfig(libjpeg)
    - pkgconfig(librsvg-2.0)
    - pkgconfig(x11)
    - pkgconfig(xft)
    - pkgconfig(xinerama)
    - pkgconfig(xmu)
    - pkgconfig(xpm)
setup      : |
    %configure --disable-fribidi
build      : |
    %make
install    : |
    %make_install

Desktop file to be placed in /usr/share/xsessions/jwm.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=JWM
Comment=A lightweight window manger for the X11 Window System
Exec=/usr/bin/jwm
TryExec=/usr/bin/jwm
Type=XSession

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Justin Hey Justin, could you point me to documentation that shows me how to build something locally? I have no idea how to do this

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Hey @JoshStrobl and @Justin,

Fair enough, like you said, don't think it will add that much value, but it's a fun little WM to play with. I'll build it locally and see how it goes, thank you!

kyrios

[deleted] https://getsol.us/articles/packaging/building-a-package/en/ (tip: the Docs link on the top navigation bar is clickable) 😛