Lubuntu 12.04

Lubuntu 12.04 Details

nwm works great on Lubuntu 12.04 which is an unbloated Ubuntu-based distribution.

Installation

Follow the instructions from project README.md.

Install ROXTerm terminal which has better color and font support than lxterm or xterm. roxterm supports pseudo-transparency :)

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:h-realh/roxterm
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install roxterm

Edit your nwm-user-sample.js and change the binding for xterm launcher. Search for xterm and change the stanza to either use lxterm or roxterm.

{
  key: 'Return', // enter key launches roxterm
  modifier: [ 'shift' ],
  callback: function(event) {
    child_process.spawn('roxterm', [], { env: process.env });
  }
}

Customizing

Create a ~/.xprofile if it does not exist.

touch ~/.xprofile

To set keyboard rate, edit ~/.xprofile and add a line xset r rate [delay [rate]]

xset r rate 200 40

To set desktop background, use the lightweight image viewer feh

sudo apt-get -y install feh

then add line to .xprofile

feh --bg-fill ~/path/to/image