There is certainly a number of ways to autostart applications. As it happens every window manager has its own way of doing autostarting and at some point you might get a bit confused about where exactly you should put your autostart entries. To overcome the problems of autostarting you can use a file called .xinitrc . Continue reading
Golden Windowmaker theme release and few tips
Since it is Sunday it is a perfect time to release another WindowMaker theme called Golden. The theme has a wallpaper and the traditional theme parts which are needed in order to run it in WindowMaker. This is also GPL like the Darkburn theme. (http://www.techtimejourney.net/?p=520). If you do need any instructions on how to install this theme you will also find them well documented on my previous blog post about the Darkburn. Continue reading
WindowMaker and Darkburn WindowMaker theme
First. What is WindowMaker? WindowMaker is a very lightweight desktop environment which has been around since 1997. WindowMaker is very good to run with older hardware as it does not demand lot from the computer. For modern computers WindowMaker is a good choice if you want a fast desktop which is not bloated with all kinds of software by default. See more from WindowMaker here: http://windowmaker.org/
Second. What is Darkburn? Darkburn is a theme for WindowMaker which I build. Darkburn is provided as a GPL. Continue reading
Connecting to wpa/wpa2 protected Wi-Fi network without GUI frontends
When I started using Arch I found myself having problems with connecting to my Wi-Fi network with the usual GUI frontends (network-manager and Wicd). Luckily there is another method to do these things if the GUI way falls short. In order to connect to wpa or wpa2 network you will need the following packages:
wpa_supplicant and wireless-tools. Wireless-tools might not be strictly necessary but having it does no harm. You may also need to install dhclient, in some cases.
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