Part 5 - JWM - See what's floating on Debian Stable

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Distro: Debian 12 Bookworm (Stable)
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=== Contents of this Video ===
0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Getting started with JWM
5:38 - Building the JWM Menu with xdgmenumaker
10:51 - Modifying JWM
26:38 - Wrap Up
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[@InnerTranquility]

JWM is my favorite floating window manager! Lightweight, and simple to configure.

[@donaldwilliams6821]

Amazing. These types of videos are great and sorely needed. Super practical and interesting.

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Glad you think so!

[@rtheben]

this series is amazing dude ❤❤❤

[@busterbrown8830]

Drew doing a great job of explaining these subjects. I have to say, liking Geany more and more. Please keep them coming!

[@susanpinochet]

I am really learning a lot from this series, and it is super relevant for my current situation. I hear you saying now and then that you should have done this or that part offline, but I find those moments where you slow down and talk through a process to be edifying. Thanks for what you do. I look forward to more of these.

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Thanks for saying that. Very much appreciated.

[@SpreadiesInSpace]

This can double as a customization guide for Puppy Linux since it also uses JWM, so I am ALL for it!

[@ScottAshmead]

JWM is great... I feel like it normally takes up much less memory than what you were showing but maybe I had less behind apps loading... great vid

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Good to know!

[@phonewithoutquestion80]

JWM is probably the fairest ground between fluxbox and icewm, I got to play around in a VM with puppy linux and riced JWM fairly thoroughly. It isn't hard to make it fit with whatever look and feel you're going for. You can assign windows to workspaces which is always a HUGE deal for me with any standalone window manager.

[@Viken43]

You should be able to just CP file to your home without sudo.

[@KbKbrt]

Hi Drew. Do You have any thoughts on Gnome Shell ? Maybe a short film on this topic? Greetings from Poland :)

[@TrustJesusToday]

A new regular Linux Cast panelist? Wouldn't that be something? (I am still hoping that Hyprland is added to Debian repo soon....)

[@donaldwilliams6821]

Me too but min would be trixie so that's a ways off before it becomes stable. There are a couple of good projects to add hyprland to trixie.

[@ytbone9430]

Hello! o) This looks like a regular desktop environment to me? Can you or somebody explain, why use JWM or any of the other window managers over XFCE for instance? Where is the actual benefit? Is it just because of "more simple" and "less resource heavy"? Isn't XFCE this simple, less resource heavy desktop already? I see and seem to like the easy XML based configuration of parts of the JWM desktop, that actually looks more easy and useful than what XFCE offers. Is this the selling point of JWM? How much memory does JWM save over XFCE, which we then can waste by adding a nice desktop background?! o) Thank you for your videos, interesting content and nice flow of presentation! Your voice is also very relaxing to listen to, I even had you on repeat in the background! o)

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Generally window managers are lighter on resources. I am not sure how many packages get installed when you install xfce, but these window managers have very few packages comparatively.

[@grymmjack]

I wonder if these default configs would honor update-alternatives?

[@iogilarb]

looks like openbox to me

[@johanb.7869]

Why such small font? In combination with the bad font rendering, you're going to ruin your eyes.

[@ytbone9430]

I think nobody ever ruined his eyes by actually using the muscles in the eyes to focus as good as possible, hu? o) Looking at something "difficult to read" is more like training for the eye muscles. That said, if you keep squinting all day long, it probably really is too small for you or your glasses need to be adjusted. You might get a headache as well, but you probably won't ruin your eyes (but I'm not a doctor! o). In general, making use of whatever muscle you have in your body, even if it is for focussing "the eyes", it won't harm you. Giving your muscles some work they are not used to, will keep them going as best as can be and make them work even better in the "normal" range. It's like the weight lifters, they train with 200kg maybe, which is hard, but if they would not train with 200kg, nobody of them would lift 150kg with ease. If you only train with 150kg, lifting those 150 will never be as easy, as if you trained with 200kg. Same goes for very small text, long distance or very short range reading/looking with the eyes - it's all training. There are actually books out there for eye muscle training, which can even compensate diopters(?) if done regularly (not sure it's the right word, I'm not a native english person). To put it simple: Training eye muscles by reading or looking at difficult things (for some time) can help to see better in general. Anyway, be good and have a nice day! o)