Thanks Trinity

Ill I ever see is a load of apps ! just showing my working desktop

eh ok redgore and synaptical i was talking about http://www.enigmae.org/obsic-2.jpg

anyway in that picture : http://windowmaker.org/imageview.php?cat=big&id=44 there in right left button says the CPU stats and the nocd thing how that app called?

*trying* to configure httpd and postfix over ssh!

http://www.orderinchaos.org/desktop.png

this should please Hexx, as the transparent terms allow you to see more of the desktop!

joehill that looks awsome! what is that thing called in the right top with the cpu monitor and other staff?

Thanks man!

That's Gkrellm with the transparent skin, I love it to death...

Thanks! but what is the cd player thing? With the 67 number on top..

oh, sorry, that's a seperate dockapp called wmsmixer, controls volume for all mixer devices from one interface, it's bad ass.

avail here:

http://www.bensinclair.com/dockapp/

or here:

http://dockapps.org/

you have to be running a WM that supports dockable apps tho, not KDE or Gnome AFAIK.

oh okay. not the best messageboard technique, so kind of hard to tell what you were referring to (mindreading skillz have declined with age ) .

Thanks Joehill! i really liked you're desktop so i wanted to try perkwm the installation went fine but when i try to start pekwm it says: pekwm: root window unavailable, can't start

i checked my home folder .pekwm and menu was there.. any ideas?

How exactly are you trying to start it?

I start X from text mode with an .xinitrc in my home dir which looks like this:

#Pekwm
xset m 50/10 3 &
xset b off
xset +fp $HOME/.fonts &
idesk &
gkrellm -w &
xscreensaver &
wmsmixer -w &
wmclockmon &
Esetroot -f ~/wallpapers/beewpekwm.png &
pekwm

I don't think you can start it right from the command line *within* X, unless maybe you start a new X session like this:

pekwm -- :1

but I would really recommend starting it from text mode, ie. runlevel 3.

err i dont think i have .xinitrc in my home folder..i only found in:

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc


is that the right one?

edit the file you have in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and remove the bottom
line and add thisand then startx

cheers erling

no. in your home dir, open yer fav text editor and just edit and save as .xinitrc

for example, vi should be installed on your system by default, so in your home dir:

type: vi .xinitrc

then in vi type "i" for insert

enter "pekwm" on the first line, just as a start, to get it going.

then hit escape to exit insert mode, and type ":wq" and hit enter to save.

now you should have ~/.xinitrc.

now from text mode type:

startx

and pek should start.

be warned, pekwm is configured *totally* using text config files, but it comes pretty well pre-configured and you can just edit the files to suit your tastes. It took me about a week to really get comfortable with it, but once you have it the way you want it, it *rocks*.

my *only* issue with that is that whenever you want to make a quick change to your startup, you gotta do it as root, whereas with an .xinitrc in your home dir you can just click on it and edit it and save it and restart x, done.

otherwise you are absolutely correct.