Coming Soon: Fluppy for netbooks, widescreens, smallscreens
Posted: Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:28
Fluppy is a remix of Puppy 4.3 using Flwm and Rox-Panel, along with customized window tiling and scripting tools.
Why Flwm?
Flwm is a unique window manager, being both extremely lightweight, and sporting vertical titlebars. Vertical titlebars are optimal for widescreen netbooks: fewer problems with tall windows, and better use of available space.
Flwm has no built-in panel to hog your screen space - the taskbar and pager are on the popup menu, visible when you need them, hidden when you don't.
Flwm has independent buttons for vertical and horizontal maximize; you don't know how much you need this until you've tried it.
Flwm works well with my brand new version of the Tile utility. Tile your windows with a grid, horizontal, or vertical stripes, iconify or cascade; remove the titlebars or put them back - all at the touch of a button. This guarantees you get the most of your screen real estate without the learning curve of a tiling or borderless window manager.
Why Rox-Panel?
It comes free with Rox Filer. It's integrated with the pinboard and supports drag and drop.
Rox Panel can hold as many icons as you need, automatically scrolling them on and off screen if they don't fit in the available space - works perfectly even at 640x480. Vertical panels are supported and well-behaved.
Rox-Panel has a menu, a systray, and several monitoring applets that do not require python.
Rox-Panel stays below your windows until you press the hotkey to bring it to the top.
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If anyone wants to help me test, I'd be interested in releasing an Eee fastboot kernel and maybe a more general netbook kernel to go with it.
Ideas? Suggestions? What would you like to see in a netbook version of puppy?
Edit: I've posted the latest WMpack download here, so it's easier to find, along with the yaf-panel legend screenshot.
Why Flwm?
Flwm is a unique window manager, being both extremely lightweight, and sporting vertical titlebars. Vertical titlebars are optimal for widescreen netbooks: fewer problems with tall windows, and better use of available space.
Flwm has no built-in panel to hog your screen space - the taskbar and pager are on the popup menu, visible when you need them, hidden when you don't.
Flwm has independent buttons for vertical and horizontal maximize; you don't know how much you need this until you've tried it.
Flwm works well with my brand new version of the Tile utility. Tile your windows with a grid, horizontal, or vertical stripes, iconify or cascade; remove the titlebars or put them back - all at the touch of a button. This guarantees you get the most of your screen real estate without the learning curve of a tiling or borderless window manager.
Why Rox-Panel?
It comes free with Rox Filer. It's integrated with the pinboard and supports drag and drop.
Rox Panel can hold as many icons as you need, automatically scrolling them on and off screen if they don't fit in the available space - works perfectly even at 640x480. Vertical panels are supported and well-behaved.
Rox-Panel has a menu, a systray, and several monitoring applets that do not require python.
Rox-Panel stays below your windows until you press the hotkey to bring it to the top.
-------
If anyone wants to help me test, I'd be interested in releasing an Eee fastboot kernel and maybe a more general netbook kernel to go with it.
Ideas? Suggestions? What would you like to see in a netbook version of puppy?
Edit: I've posted the latest WMpack download here, so it's easier to find, along with the yaf-panel legend screenshot.