LXDE also has better menus than JWM, but JWM's pre-Bionic window crispness is at least as important. Is JWM slightly more stable in Puppy? Yes, but relative the amount of energy put into it, probably not. The main reason is the rich refinement of the XFCE gui at minimally compromised efficiency. If LXDE were the only Puppy DE I would say, "Nice, this works."īut after experience I slightly prefer Xenial-era JWM and XFCE is a league above as a DE. C&start=30ĭon’t hesitate to post about your experiences.ĭistroWatch has a comparison summary of XFCE, LXDE, LXQT for your interest. ![]() ![]() Links to many alternate window managers by musher0, Jejy69 and others can be found on the ‘old forum’s Desktop Section beginning here. Radky’s FbBox, both 32-and-64 bit, for various Puppys. Vicmz’s Openboxplus-p, a lightweight openbox with only fbpanel for various 32-bit Puppys. Vicmz’s Openboxplus with choice of lxpanal or tint2 for various older 32-bit Puppys. Josejp2424’s openboxplus64 for modern 64-bit Puppys. And if something isn’t fully functional, and you have the time, help to make it so. Being a Puppy software tester is the job you volunteered for, the price you pay, to have the most versatile operating system and maintain it as such and to be a member of a community which responds to your interests. Turn off your Automatic Save and/or backup your SaveFile/Folder before trying them.īut do try them. It is possible that you will discover that you’ve booted into a non-responsive system and will have to ‘pull the plug’ to get out of it. Window-managers are fundamental parts of an operating system. As these ydrv.sfs will automatically load on boot-up and can NOT be unloaded, if your Puppy is a ‘Ubuntu’ or ‘debian’, I strongly recommend that you proceed with caution. I don’t know –and do not recall reading any posts regarding- the ability to use them OOTB with Ubuntu-binary-compatible or debian-binary-compatible Puppys. I may be mistaken, but I think peebee’s ydrv.sfs window-managers are a bi-product of his development of slackware-binary-compatible Puppys. As nicOS has developed an application which enables you to convert your SaveFile/Folder into a ydrv –enabling you to always boot from a pristine, READ-ONLY, system- you might want to combine any zdrv and fdrv into, say, a zdrv and rename one of peebee’s window-manager ydrvs to fdrv. For example, a zdrv.sfs only holds hardware drivers and an fdrv.sfs only holds hardware firmware. But you can combine several ‘alphabet SFSes’ whose files do not conflict. ![]() Except for taersh’s ArtStudion64, AFAIK currently the only ‘alfphabet SFSes’ Puppys can use must begin with the letters a, z, f, or y. AFAIK, they will not function properly if renamed as an application SFS and SFS-loaded. You can not use more than one SFS named ydrv.sfs. They will automatically be copied into RAM on boot-up and can NOT be unloaded. You locate a ydrv.sfs adjacent to your Puppy's "main" SFS, e.g. Ydrv.sfs is among what I refer to as an ‘alphabet.sfs’: See, viewtopic.php?p=9804#p9804 for its definition and contrast to an application SFS. Among businessmen attorneys are known as 'Deal killers'. My experience is having spent 30+ years as a practicing attorney whose job often involved asking the question "What can go wrong?" and figuring out how to avoid that. On the latter link you'll find XFCE, LXDE and MATE window managers packaged as ydrv.sfses.Ĭautions: -But first note that I have no actual experience from having used these ydrv.sfses. ![]() Among them are LXQT, links to which are here, viewtopic.php?p=2419#p2419 and here. But with some hard work and dedication other Window Managers can be created enabling a Puppy User to change his Puppy's 'Look and Feel.' Peebee has been kind enough to put in that work and publish some for our benefit. The 'standard' Window Manager which is 'built-in' to most Puppys is jwm.
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