StumpWM is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp which offers modules and extensions. A community wiki on the GitHub project explain how it can be customized while running.
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Can I set a gnome keyboard shortcut to be a prefix key, like in emacs, tmux or screen?
I would like to setup some Gnome keyboard shortcuts to be a prefix-key, so that I can add several shortcuts with the same prefix. Eg. I'd like to be able to have Super+x be a prefix key, with the next letter determining the application to…
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Why would GPG Pinentry be slow when opening in GUI but instantaneous when opening in CLI?
Having a hard time figuring out the debugging steps for this behavior.
I'll run some gpg command and, typically, about 20 seconds later a GUI Pinentry window will pop up where I type in my password and the command proceeds.
Occasionally though, the…
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Multiple images on root window with ImageMagick
I don't run a desktop environment, but instead use a bare window manager (StumpWM). Thus, my usual method for setting a desktop background is to run display -window root from a WM startup script, which does what I want.
When using…
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How can I set Conkeror as my default brower?
I use the latest Archlinux and stumpwm as my window manager with some Gnome goodies on the side (gnome-power-manager, gnome-settings-daemon and networkmanager applet).
I tried to make Conkeror my default browser. I tried gconftool-2 and changed the…
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Why does my window manager (stumpwm) show a cross on the mouse pointer when it is over the root window?
My mouse pointer turns into a cross when there are no elements under it other than the root window. I've been having this issue with stumpwm since I installed it, but I know that a cross over the root window is a normal occurrence in twm or any…
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How do I exit a window manager (StumpWM) and X11 session launched with `dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 stumpwm`?
I have in my .xinitrc the line dbus-launch --exit-with-session stumpwm. Occasionally, I'll want to kill everything that has to do with X, get back to a terminal, and start over.
If I ps aux | grep stumpwm and kill the StumpWM process, the window…
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