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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: devinbj on October 10, 2010, 07:17:21 PM

Title: dwm
Post by: devinbj on October 10, 2010, 07:17:21 PM

I am trying to use dwm with tiny core 3.  I downloaded dwm sprinkles and installed it.  In my syslinux.cfg file i added desktop=dwm.  The problem is that when it boots it is half dwm and half the old look.  It still has the icon bar on the bottom.  It has an x for the mouse.  The terminals are black with green text.

Brian

Title: Re: dwm
Post by: gerald_clark on October 10, 2010, 07:42:29 PM

If you are going to use alternate window managers, you might be better off with microcore instead of tinycore.

Title: Re: dwm
Post by: maro on October 10, 2010, 08:39:01 PM

The "icon bar on the bottom" (i.e. 'wbar') will not be started if you use boot code 'noicons'.

Title: Re: dwm
Post by: tinypoodle on October 10, 2010, 08:53:08 PM

Quote from: devinbj on October 10, 2010, 07:17:21 PM

It still has the icon bar on the bottom.

As expected, as wbar is not dependent on wm.
Perhaps the naming of the parameter 'desktop=' might be slighly confusing as it refers rather to wm, if I understand correctly.

Title: Re: dwm
Post by: cjs419 on December 16, 2010, 12:53:44 AM

I'm liking TC just fine but all its "supported" window managers are blot.. so I'm trying to get dwm working also.. Will post back if I have any success.

Title: Re: dwm
Post by: tinypoodle on December 16, 2010, 09:01:29 AM

Assuming by

Quote

blot

you mean bloat...

For reason of comparison, I downloaded the dwm package for debian sid i386, unpacked it and then squashed it to get an indication of size it would take up as a TC extension, result is 28Kb.

flwm which is the default wm is 32Kb in size, 1 4Kb block more than an estimated dwm extension, but still 7x bigger than the smallest wm available in repo   ;)
 

Title: Re: dwm
Post by: danielibarnes on December 16, 2010, 11:45:56 AM

I'll take a shot at creating a sprinkles extension just for fun. Here is info on the other 16 window managers in the 3.x repository:

4K    tinywm.tcz
16K   evilwm.tcz
16K   windowlab.tcz
28K   aewm++.tcz
28K   flwm.tcz
66K   jwm.tcz
147K  i3.tcz
205K  openbox.tcz
260K  wmii.tcz
352K  xfwm4.tcz
428K  icewm.tcz
785K  fluxbox.tcz
1.0M  hackedbox.tcz
1.0M  metacity.tcz
1.66M wmaker.tcz
1.7M  compiz.tcz

Personally, I use evilwm because it is very small yet has all the features I need.

Title: Re: dwm
Post by: tinypoodle on December 17, 2010, 07:29:36 AM

Comparison of wm sizes including dependencies could lead to a quite different impression, for example:

0.73M   hackedbox.tcz
1.13M   fluxbox.tcz
1.91M   wmaker.tcz
4.29M   icewm.tcz
7.95M   openbox.tcz
10.82M xfwm4.tcz
11.73M metacity.tcz
24.46M compiz.tcz

Title: Re: dwm
Post by: curaga on December 17, 2010, 12:37:52 PM

I wonder where e17 stands.

Title: Re: dwm
Post by: tinypoodle on December 19, 2010, 01:44:05 PM

Quote from: curaga on December 17, 2010, 12:37:52 PM

I wonder where e17 stands.

4.11M resp. 10.71M

Title: Re: dwm
Post by: hiro on December 20, 2010, 12:16:44 PM

wmii with expat2,fontconfig,libxft is 0.5MB
dwm will be less.