I’ve been using pekwm for only a few days, but it already feels like home.<br>As a long-time Slackware user, I’ve always preferred minimal and efficient setups like Fluxbox, IceWM and twm, and pekwm fits perfectly into that tradition.<br><br>What I enjoy the most is how simple, fast and predictable it is.<br>I use only my laptop (no external monitor), and pekwm gives me exactly what I want: a clean environment, flexible keybindings, mouse-friendly workflow and no unnecessary complexity.<br><br>I’m also using pekwm’s group/tab feature with rules like:<br><br><p>Property = "^Alacritty,^Alacritty,,.*" { ApplyOn = "New Start Reload"; Group = "netwin" { Size = "0" } }<br>Property = "^Navigator,^firefox,,.*" { ApplyOn = "New Start Reload"; Group = "netwin" { Size = "0" } }<br>Property = "^xterm,^XTerm" { ApplyOn = "New Start Reload"; Group = "netwin" { Size = "0" } }<br></p>This keeps my terminals and browser neatly tabbed together, which is great on a laptop screen.<br><br>It also reminds me of this classic article showing how developers desktops hardly changed over the years, always focused on minimal window managers and simple tools:<br><br><a href="https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/scre</span><span class="invisible">enshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/</span></a><br><br>Pekwm has the same timeless Unix spirit.<br>Great work, and thanks for keeping this project alive!<br><br><a href="/tags/pekwm/" rel="tag">#pekwm</a> <a href="/tags/slackware/" rel="tag">#slackware</a><br>
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Spent a few hours today testing and tweaking pekwm vs evilwm on my Slackware system (same st + tmux + Firefox, same X setup). evilwm is beautifully minimal and will stay as my backup — and I’ll probably use it more whenever I feel like switching things up — but pekwm feels smoother, with less flicker and cleaner redraws.<br><br>I even found and reported a small -snap bug in evilwm while testing 🙂<br><br><a href="/tags/slackware/" rel="tag">#Slackware</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/pekwm/" rel="tag">#pekwm</a> <a href="/tags/evilwm/" rel="tag">#evilwm</a><br>
<a href="/tags/tinkertuesday/" rel="tag">#TinkerTuesday</a><br><br>I spent the last days building and testing a few minimalist X11 window managers on Slackware: evilwm, shod and Notion — even patching Notion to build with GCC 15.<br><br>evilwm is still my lightweight, workspace-oriented backup WM, but for a tab-based, rule-driven stacking workflow, nothing I tried comes close to pekwm.<br><br>Firefox, terminal and mail living in one frame, out of the way — that’s still the sweet spot for me.<br><br><a href="/tags/pekwm/" rel="tag">#pekwm</a> <a href="/tags/slackware/" rel="tag">#Slackware</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a><br>