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From: lee <lee@××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] urxvt on i3wm as wallpaper
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 23:18:46
Message-Id: 874mt7vynh.fsf@gulltop.yagibdah.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] urxvt on i3wm as wallpaper by behrouz khosravi
1 behrouz khosravi <bz.khosravi@×××××.com> writes:
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3 > On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:44 AM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
4 >
5 >>
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7 >> Omit the window decorations?
8 >>
9 >
10 > I liked the picture, but actually I am not sure if that's what I want.
11 > I want a terminal that is on the background (wallpaper) of the screen, not
12 > in the floating mode or something like that.
13 > For example like the conky behaves when it is on the walpaper.
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15 I guess you'd have to build the terminal into the WM to achieve this.
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17 Other than that, you can always make the terminal fullscreen, and then
18 there's no significant difference between the terminal and the
19 background anymore --- or is there?
20
21 > However how did you remove the window decorations?!
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23 I have
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26 Style * !Title, BorderWidth 2
27 Style XTerm !Borders
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30 in my fvwm configuration. You can check it out at [1] and modify it to
31 your liking. Unless you have an AltGr key on your keyboard, you
32 probably *do* want to adjust the key bindings before starting fvwm, or
33 you may find yourself unable to move windows.
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35 Once you got used to fvwm, you don't want to put up with anything less
36 anymore :) However, i3 is really good, too, if you like tiling WMs and
37 don't (yet) need sticky floating windows (which stay on top)[2]. I've
38 tried many WMs over the years and can recommend only those two. And I
39 got fvwm to do tiling the way I need it --- which I rarely do ---
40 basically just as well as i3 does.
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43 [1]: https://github.com/lee-/fvwm
44 [2]: http://i3wm.org/
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46
47 --
48 Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons
49 might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.

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Re: [gentoo-user] urxvt on i3wm as wallpaper behrouz khosravi <bz.khosravi@×××××.com>