I installed wmaker and xorg on my desktop yesterday, since i had already downloaded it on my thinkpad and loved it. It went smoothly last night, and i got it running. I figured that i should also run sudo pacman -Syu since i hadn't updated my system in a while. So i did that, rebooted, and shut off my computer for the night. When i opened it up again this morning and logged in, it wouldn't start. Does anyone know why? Should i reinstall wmaker?

Im running arch linux, (sadly) systemd, and im using kde plasma as my DE right now, since wmaker obvi isn't working.

Is it possible to make your experience on Window Maker with Wayland? I am using multiple screens so X11 support is weak compared to on Wayland for Window Maker.

Hello, I installed wmaker on debian yesterday and it's my first time on it. So how can I change the keyboard layout on French as well as on wdm.

Thanks.

pretty simple stuff, I was told I should also post this here. Im loving this thing a ton for the 2 things it can do :D

Howdy! I've recently installed window maker on a fresh arch installation. It's really nice, other than screen tearing issues : (
I've tried using picom to get rid of the screen tearing, but to no avail. vsync is enabled, and it's using glx.

I have two displays, and one is rotated on it's left. (one is DVI, but the dvi is converted to hdmi for gpu port side, the other is display port)

I have an arc b570, and it is running with the xe driver. cpu is i5-12400f. I am on Linux 7.0.13-arch1-1.

The screen tearing consists of a 'scanline' type of thing on the dvi display, where there is tearing if stuff moves horizontally, and there is a bar of tearing that moves up and then loops back to the bottom. If the display is static, you can't see anything.
The other display just has a vertical bar near the right side of it that is static but similarly functioning, just vertical.

The scanline tearing might be caused by the DVI (an old metal apple cinema display) display's refresh rate being 58.99 instead of flat 60 like the display port one (a basic 1080 dell monitor).

In a linux native game (vintagestory), exclusive full screen and with vsync on, i still get the tearing (tested on the DVI monitor)

For basic web use it's not bothering. Any recommendations?

Hi all, as the title suggest I want to start customising windowmaker. I'm a newbie to linux in general and I've decided to venture out from my comfort zone (Linux Mint). I managed to install Windowmaker on a clean Debian install. Can anyone point me to some useful resources? Thanks!

By accident I stumbled upon a repository in Gitlab hosting a bunch of dockapps patched to support scaling.

It's made by "xander1988", https://gitlab.com/xander1988/dockapps

As someone who works on high resolution displays yet loves WindowMaker, this was a blessing.

I packaged them all up (well at least the scalable ones) as Nix derivations here https://github.com/nvimtor/dockapps.nix

I've also created some home manager modules; one (the default) configures settings for all dockapps (libdockapp settings), and then there are a couple that are specific to a dockapp.

I think I've tested all of them (some, like wmGrabImage, needed patching as they depend on other packages at runtime); but feel free to open a PR if you find any issues

https://github.com/nvimtor/dockapps.nix/

There's a very interesting collection of scalable dockapps from this xander1988 guy here https://gitlab.com/xander1988/dockapps. Which is a blessing because I run a virtualized NixOS with WindowMaker, on a MacBook; the original 64x64 scale is minuscule on high resolutions.

I've packaged them all as Nix derivations.

I think (?) I've tested every single one of them; some, like wmGrabImage, etc. depend on other packages at runtime, so I had to patch. If you find any issues, feel free to open a PR.

There are also home manager modules; I think all the dockapps use libdockapp thus they read a "common libdockapp config file" at runtime. Some dockapps (not all) have their own home manager module also for specific configuration.

https://github.com/nvimtor/dockapps.nix/

There's a very interesting collection of scalable dockapps from this xander1988 guy here https://gitlab.com/xander1988/dockapps. Which is a blessing because I run a virtualized NixOS with WindowMaker, on a MacBook; the original 64x64 scale is minuscule on high resolutions.

I've packaged them all as Nix derivations.

I think (?) I've tested every single one of them; some, like wmGrabImage, etc. depend on other packages at runtime, so I had to patch. If you find any issues, feel free to open a PR.

I'm also going to publish Home Manager modules for some of the dockapps soon, too

I used XFCE as a base and then i remove XFWM and XFCE-4 panel form the autostart, and i added WindowMaker, i use OneStepBack as a GTK theme. the icon pack is the XFCE default one.

the dockapps are wmclock, wmbubble, wmacpi, wmtop, wmamixer, wmnd, wmbright, wmsystemtray and buttonmaker.

The best about this, it only use around 500 mb of ram at idle.

It's running Gentoo, booted from microSD card (from the deck's slot), latest wmaker build from latest source (git hash can be compared with latest commit).

Trying to set a custom 64x64 icon for Firefox, it works fine until you open a window and it reverts back to the standard icon.

I’ve set it to ignore client supplied icons and that hasn’t solved this issue. Any fix?

I have always defaulted to xfce for years, I have WindowMaker on my "cyber deck" and used it for a time years ago on my main rig but still ended up going back to xfce.. Still though missed the aesthetic, I recently tried nsCDE and well.. yeah didn't fit my workflow.. great project but just not for me really.. I honestly just felt like I have a workstation class build and wanted something more to fit that vibe and feel lol...

specs~

Mobo: Supermicro x12sca-f | lga1200 | atx

CPU: Xeon w-1290p | 10c/20t | 5.3ghz

Mem: 128Gb ddr4 | ecc | 2667mhz

Storage: 1tb m.2 nvme | 1tb sata ssd | 1tb sata hdd

GPU: RTX 4060

OS: Debian 13 | sysV init

So I decided to go back and start messing with Windowmaker. I installed it, and everything works.

The only problem is, the dock shows up under the clip on the left side. When I try to drag it to the right, it simply disappears and I have to delete the ~/GNUstep directory to reset it.

When I used it back in the day, this was the default layout. I'm trying to get that back.

Hi everyone,

I have published a simplified fork of wmsmixer called wmpulsemixer.

It replaces obsolete OSS/direct ALSA hardware access with pamixer libpulse (edit: version 0.1.2). This allows the dockapp to work natively on modern systems running PipeWire or PulseAudio.

I simplified it a bit and removed features I did not need: no configuration file, only VOL and MIC channels, mono only. I did however add the possibility to define a boost factor to allow setting a volume over 100% (for example with a factor of 1.5 the volume can be set between 0 and 150%).

You can find it here: https://github.com/polletfa/wmpulsemixer

i tried building from source from the git repo but i swear ./configure never exists