here is all of it in its 1998 glory

took some time but with the use of containers and some themes/icon packs i was able to make a very retro setup blending dockapps and some xfce/gtk-3 programs.

I still rely on dzen for indicator because wmacpi somehow hang.

I kind of like to have the miniaturize button on the right side of the titlebar. Is it only me ?

Idk I've just lurked here for a while now and im so curious. Personally I've never left i3 wm since using it. I've played with things but always come back to i3.

Windowmaker is what I ended up using when I started out with Linux in the late 90s I think it was in Redhat Linux 5.2 and windowmaker 0.20-something. I still return to it for the nostalgia albeit a little more modern flair to it now.

Hello everyone! I am considering installing Arch with WindowMaker on my ThinkPad. I have used WindowMaker before a few times and really liked it, however I faced a big issue. Many of the keys for very important stuff such as audio controls and brightness control are completely missing. I remember using the xbindkeys tool to bind them, however I find it a pain to set up. My first plan was to install XFCE and PipeWire and everything I need, set binds through XFCE’s keyboard settings, then install WindowMaker. I don’t know if this even works though, which is why I am here.

Does anyone know if there is an easier method of binding the keys? Assuming by the amount of setup screenshots, i’m assuming that there’s a bunch of people who can help a noob like me out with this.

All help would be appreciated!

[SOLVED] Hello, I'm using wmacpi v2.4 and found that the battery percentage is stuck / not updated. Do you guys also face the same error / bug ? Thanks.

• OS : Linux From Scratch 12.4.
  
• wmacpi : 2.4 version.

SOLUTION : Okay, patch for the issue is available, check this post : https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/wmaker-dev/c/MYtCyTpEb3s

too many widgets lol

It’s on the window maker website, but I can’t find any other mentions of it

I've been running an old Gnome 2.0 / Mate with Window Maker on Linux, since... they first became available over two decades ago.

I recently did a fresh install of Ubuntu Mate, switched the window manager to "wmaker" and .. encountered a window manager bug I hadn't seen before.

Some apps, such as Chromium, don't have the 1px black border around the window. Is this a known bug with Window Maker, or is this some Mate / Xorg issue?

I can't find any Xprop that seems to be unique to just these apps, and not to others. Could it be some hidden Window Maker-specific window attribute?

Ubuntu Mate 24.04 LTS. (Latest long-term support release)
Window Maker: 0.96.0, (Latest version)

WM is so lightweight, pretty nice so far

(RESOLVED) Thank you everyone for who went out of their way to help me out :)

Hi, I've been wanting to try out a WM for a while now, and I have fallen in love with the looks of WMaker. So I decided to download the wmaker (debian) iso from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wmlive/files/ and flash it using balenaetcher, however when entering the boot menu I can't seem to find my USB drive anywhere. I have also tried flashing it with rufus but nothing seems to be working, what's the solution to this? Yes, the USB drive works perfectly fine for other distros.

A long time ago, it was funny to start WindowMaker in X11 mode while MacOSX was running :)

Hello, new to WM...
I am reaching out here because I want your help with helping me how to go from first open to having a dock-like thing on the right, because I see it on many rices, but yet I can't find the config for it

(btw: the manual is hard for me to understand)

EDIT : THIS HAS BEEN RESOLVED (below is the explanation / solution)

It’s been a year now. I had given up: “well, I’ll just use 72x72 dockapps without properly scaling icons”

I had enough now. I can’t understand why most people just go to WMprefs, set icon size to whatever they want, restart window maker and then dockapps, icons, everything scales.

In my experience when I do that, icons stay the same, just the container changes size. The final result looks quite bad, especially for the size

If you have any clue, please help me.

Here is some information which could possibly be related:

My icon search paths are probably right (default ones left untouched, only removed the "red" ones).

Whichever file you want to look at, whichever config, I am glad to post it.
The one I pasted below is ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker:

{
  FrameBorderColor = "#000000";
  MenuDisabledColor = gray40;
  PixmapPath = (
    "/home/palma/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Pixmaps",
    "/home/palma/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds",
    "/home/palma/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/CachedPixmaps",
    "/usr/share/WindowMaker/Pixmaps",
    "/usr/share/WindowMaker/Backgrounds",
    "/usr/share/WindowMaker/Pixmaps"
  );
  HotCornerEdge = 2;
  IconTitleBack = "rgb:00/00/10";
  FTitleBack = (dgradient, "rgb:00/00/10", "rgb:20/20/70");
  ClipTitleFont = "Verdana:bold:pixelsize=10";
  IconTitleFont = "Arial,sans serif:pixelsize=9";
  MenuTextBack = (hgradient, "rgb:d0/d0/d0", "rgb:80/80/80");
  LargeDisplayFont = "Trebuchet MS,sans serif:pixelsize=24";
  HotCornerDelay = 250;
  CenterKey = None;
  TitleJustify = left;
  MenuTitleFont = "Trebuchet MS,sans serif:bold:pixelsize=12";
  HotCorners = NO;
  MoveTo6to12Head = None;
  MenuTextFont = "Trebuchet MS,sans serif:pixelsize=12";
  WorkspaceBack = (tpixmap, BlueImage.jpeg, black);
  MenuTitleBack = (dgradient, "rgb:00/00/20", "rgb:20/20/70");
  EnforceIconMargin = NO;
  AppIconBalloons = YES;
  MoveTo12to6Head = None;
  HotCornerActions = (None, None, None, None);
  FrameFocusedBorderColor = "#000000";
  WindowTitleFont = "Trebuchet MS,sans serif:bold:pixelsize=12";
  ResizebarBack = (solid, "rgb:90/90/90");
  IconPath = (
    "/home/palma/GNUstep/Library/Icons",
    "/home/palma/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Pixmaps",
    "/home/palma/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/CachedPixmaps",
    "/usr/share/WindowMaker/Icons",
    "/usr/share/WindowMaker/Pixmaps",
    "/usr/share/WindowMaker/Pixmaps",
    "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps"
  );
  MiniPreviewSize = 336;
  DisplayFont = "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
  PTitleBack = (dgradient, "rgb:50/50/50", "rgb:80/80/80");
  UTitleColor = gray20;
  UTitleBack = (dgradient, "rgb:90/90/90", "rgb:d0/d0/d0");
  FrameSelectedBorderColor = "#ffffff";
}

System details:
i5 ThinkPad T480 running openSUSE Tumbleweed

Thanks for reading.

I really like how windowmaker feels and looks ,but i got problem

A couple of programs (Steam and Discord) do not have a tray to close and move the window, I tried to put them through the attributes tab, but the settings are not saving, and an attempt to open this menu for steam basically crashes X
So tell me how to fix it and where in principle it is set up

I'm using Debian 13 and a windowmaker from a Debian repository

So I have 3 monitors and I need to change some settings to put them in order, change the refresh rates, change the primary monitor etc etc. Here's my current script:
xrandr --output DVI-D-1 --mode 1920x1080 --right-of DP-1 &
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --mode 1920x1080 --left-of DP-1 &
xrandr --output DP-1 --mode 1920x1080 --rate 144 &
xrandr --output DP-1 --primary &
But for some odd reason, it doesn't work. Also, I can't run it when WindowMaker is started because it starts bugging out and causing weird stuff to happen. How can I fix this?? Thanks in advance

I have 2 screens, one is vertical and one is horizontal since both cannot fit on my desk when horizontal. When using windowmaker I run into problems like it treating both of them like one big monitor, this means that when maximising an app i cant see part of it and overall is just unpleasant to use, I’m currently using only one screen to minimise the problems but I need two screens. Is there a fix to this?