Retired Techie
Getting older, not necessarily wiser!
Getting older, not necessarily wiser!
I recently posted the below video on Y9utube, talking about SLiM themes; creating, modifying, and activating them.
In this final post of this series, we get some GUI configuration utilities running for OpenBox, and get SLIM installed and setup as the Display manager.
In this second part we install some needed helper applications, VirtualBox guest utilities, as well as OpenBox. At this point we are still configuring the system outside of the GUI. But we will get OpenBox installed and running before the end.
In this series we will explore emulating a more real life desktop experience though a VirtualBox (VBox) Virtual Machine.
Last week I was tinkering around with a new Arch Linux install when I noticed Joe’s Window Manager (JWM) was no longer in the main repository. Instead it was in the Arch user Repository (AUR).
This was a not so pleasant surprise and prodded me to check some other programs. One pleasant surprise was that when I looked up the SLIM Desktop manager (DM), it was not SLIM, but rather SLIM-Fork. (more…)