| > App discovery- Unlike the nicety of Gnome, which seems to autodiscover any newly installed apps, I seem to have to manually add icons for things or to put things in the right click menu. Is there any way to facilitate this? You can have scripts that generate menu entries dynamically which can be useful for that. If you have xdg_menu installed (check your distro) you can use it to make a menu for all available .desktop files. To do that open preferences, go to the menu editor, drag and drop a "Generated Submenu" entry, for the Command use "xdg_menu --format WindowMaker" and then click Save. You may need to restart Window Maker to work (should be a command in the right click menu). > Mini-applications These are "dockapps" and they're basically just tiny X windows. You can find a bunch of them at https://www.dockapps.net/ Note that most of them need to be compiled from source code. Also some are quite old (there are even some from the late 90s) and use old APIs, though most stuff that mention you can get from "repo.or.cz/dockapps.git" should work. > Minimization Minimization (actually called "miniaturization" for some reason :-P) should put windows in the bottom left corner, though i think this is configurable. Running applications can be hidden and hidden applications have a single "dot" at the bottom left corner of their tile - doubleclicking the tile will show them. Tiles with three dots at the bottom left corner are applications you haven't launched and double clicking them will launch them - in which case the dots are removed (double clicking the tile will focus the application) unless you hide it (in which case there will be one dot). > I like that all the config files are text files > Nitrogen will let me set the desktop background but it won't stick... Window Maker has a GUI configuration editor (called WMPrefs) that should cover pretty much all options in the config file so you don't have to edit it by hand. > Default sound input/output devices- Is there a nice GUI to set these?? I tried using "pacmd" to set the default sink but it didn't "take" (apparently, I may have to reboot?) I'm using the alsamixer dockapp, though it is really only for volume. There might be a better dockapp but personally i've been calling pavucontrol via the Run dialog to switch audio devices. |
Notifications- currently they show up in a floaty window in the top right of the screen briefly, is this configurable?
re: alsamixer- i used the TUI to change input/output but it required a reboot to take effect, I'm sure there's some way to not have to do that which I simply haven't figured out yet. Would prefer something a little more GUI for this use case though, like the UI in Gnome > Settings > Sound.