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Old 02-17-2005, 11:04 PM   #16
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I haven't found it, yet. If you could provide me a link I'd appreciate it - I don't have time right now to search.
Well, pekwm.org is down, so I don't know where you'd find the source for it. You can get an RPM here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/...3mdk.i586.html and use rpm2tgz to convert it.
 
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Well, pekwm.org is down, so I don't know where you'd find the source for it. You can get an RPM here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/...3mdk.i586.html and use rpm2tgz to convert it.
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I found some screenshots of it - a lot of screenies have shadows around objects - is that built into PekWM? It looks cool, and since this is for my desktop (2ghz Athlon XP, 768MB RAM), I can afford a few nice features. I just like the low RAM usage of minimalistic GUIs, and the quick load times.
 
Old 02-18-2005, 11:41 AM   #18
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Let me add my two bits for Icewm. Light, and functional, yet quite configurable.
 
Old 02-18-2005, 11:42 AM   #19
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Hmm....can't find what you're talking about. Maybe you can give me a link to one of the screenshots? I've never heard of these "shadows".
 
Old 02-18-2005, 12:37 PM   #20
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The shadows are a feature of Xorg, not PekWM. If you're using XFree, then you won't get shadows.

I like PekWM, because it gives you tabbed windows without the tabs consuming screen space--it just splits up the title bar. If only other window managers adopted this elegant window grouping method...
 
Old 02-18-2005, 02:37 PM   #21
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Yeah, I run Xorg. I knew it was implemented, I just didn't know if it was PekWM using the feature or not.

I don't like IceWM, personally. It's nice, but I don't need half the features it has, and that's just more for me to sift through.

PekWM screenies: http://www.lynucs.org/?pekwm
 
Old 02-18-2005, 02:56 PM   #22
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Ah, I see the shadows now, they look pretty cool. How would I go about setting that up?
 
Old 02-18-2005, 04:34 PM   #23
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http://www.kde.me.uk/index.php?page=...omposite-howto

Info on shadows and transparency can be found there.
 
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Thanks for the link. As soon as I read "will make your computer unusably slow", I knew I didn't even want to try it.
 
  


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