XFCE4-Gnome with PEKWM

Question

Hello Archers!
I have been using PEKWM for a month and I really love it. I feel really confortable moving, resizing and tabbing windows quickly.
I have tried to recreate all the things I used when I had XFCE4, like a bottom panel with the aplications icons, a pager, a dock, a clock, etc... But after try a wide range of applications (pypanel, tint2, bmpanel, ipager, trayer, cairo, avant and so on)  I just realised that what I really want is XFCE4 with Pekwm (instead of XFwm).
Is this really possible?
I've been googling and reading for an hour and but I have't found what exactly need to include in my xinitrc file.
This guy got it working using wolvix so I should be able to do it too using Arch: http://forums.wolvix.org/index.php?topic=1292
Thank you very much in advance
Last edited by rafaelgp (2009-04-16 22:46:15)

Answer 1

I post this just in case someone else want to use Gnome + Pekwm:
My ~/.xinitrc file looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
conky &
numlockx &
xset -b &
exec ck-launch-session gnome-session &
exec pekwm
#It is very important to write pekwm the last one and without "&"
I boot directly without DM so my /etc/inittab is:
# /etc/inittab
id:5:initdefault:
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/6 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
x:5:once:/bin/su rafael -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c startx >/dev/null 2>&1"
Finally, open gconftool and set:
apps>nautilus>preferences>show_desktop: untick
Note: I tried  changing the following
desktop>gnome>session>required_components>windowmanager: replace metacity by pekwm
and creating a desktop entry for PekWM as it is said in the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PekWM
nano /usr/share/xsessions/Pekwm.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=PekWM
Comment=Start PekWM
Exec=/usr/local/bin/pekwm
Icon=
Type=Application
but didn't work because /usr/local/bin is empty. Any ideas?
Althought everything is working, I have the feeling that nautilus is not entirely happy.
Last edited by rafaelgp (2009-04-16 22:14:55)