Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad to see JWM Kit being used in other projects.. Sorry about the bad timing of our 2 releases. Feel free to check with me next time to make sure I don't have anything new worth waiting for.

I checked out your AntiX respin. Nice. Glad you're keeping 32bit alive. Providing an iso with multiple window manager must be a lot of work. Never heard of zzzfm. Reminds me of SpaceFM. I will have to look into it.

I noticed a few missing icons in the menus. Might I suggest using JWM Kit Icons to add the following icon paths to your config.

/usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/24x24/apps/
/usr/share/icons/antix-papirus/
/usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/24x24/places/

I see you used JWM 2.4.0.  Nice. I have notice that sometime 2.4.0 will not load the data from an executable Include on startup.  When this happens JWM Kit Easy Menu's data is not loaded. You need to refresh jwm for the menu to load. In the default JWM Kit config just select "Refresh" from the exit menu, or run jwm -restart from the terminal. I've seen this issue discussed somewhere else and they said they had to logout and log back in. That is not true. Just refresh JWM and it's good. I've submit an issue to the JWM github about this.  I figured I'd make you aware of this issue so  you'd know how to advise if a user complained about it.

There use to be a few well maintained third party repositories.  I especially remember that getdeb.net and playdeb.net were very useful for Ubuntu users.  I guess maintaining a quality repository is just to big of a job.

It seems to me that if the content of the AUR is submitted by the users, Then those same users could review the content that is submitted.   I believe a few extra steps in the process could improve the AUR greatly.

My opinion on Dark mode is that is depends on the purpose of the text. I prefer dark mode for most jobs, but if I'm using office software I need the white background. I feel that the whole purpose of office software is to create documents that look good on paper. So it needs a background the color of paper. Which is white.

EDIT : Of course syntax highlighting is not used in office apps.  So I guess when it comes to anything with syntax highlighting I prefer dark mode.

Interesting.  I've noticed there are many things this misspelled init-system   does do well.  Despite all it's drawbacks it would be wise to learn from the things it does do well.

New Release : JWM Kit 20220203 - The 5th Stable Release
Release Page

Downloads - Updated packages and build files

If you need an updated JWM Kit Linux you must download and install the deb package on JWM Kit Linux

What's NEW? Mostly fixes, small improvements, cleanup, optimization, etc, but the big change is :

• Create and edit Themes with JWM Kit Appearance

• Find more info and pretty pictures of the new JWM Kit Appearance in the Wiki page

What happened to the 4th release? It was released Yesterday and was quickly replaced after I found and fixed a couple of issues.

I expect a slight improvement of efficiency in the up coming stable, I doubt this will help system performance though since JWM Kit has always been designed to not run in the background and avoid execution when not need. In other words an improved JWM Kit will do little to improve performance if JWM Kit was not the cause of any performance issues to begin with.

The big difference will be JWM Kit Keys which is used to configure key binding. Keys is now 40% less code, lighter on resource while providing major interface improvements. To be clear that is Just the "Keys" tool not the whole kit. While their will be improvements to the rest of the kit it will not be as drastic.

While smaller code size does not always mean more efficient code, it is a good sign.  I'd like to point out that new packages are almost always smaller than the previous version despite the addition of features along with new or improved icons, etc. Of course I don't know how much longer I can keep that up, because simply put more features means more code. I've just managed to keep it down by refining the code every release.

As for the DWM vs JWM. I'm not a fan of Dynamic tiling. As Andy said "once you get used to  it." The deal is I don't get used to it. I think it's my vision. I don't want my screen divided in to smaller parts. I want what I"m looking at big and up front with the ability to float another window on top out of the way when needed.

To be fair to DWM I've not really used it. So who knows.  Maybe it gets tiling right for me.

. . . and to quote myself

Will I guess I overstated that. because I guess parts of JWM Kit do have purpose outside of JWM.  Although much of it is specific to enhancing JWM.

So what parts of JWM Kit could you use to enhance a  non-jwm system.

Note : I've shorten the names. We all know the full names start with 'JWM Kit", just like XFCE apps start with XFCE4

• Calendar

• Logout

• Time & Date

• Settings

• Popvolume (The core of JWM Kit's volume control and notification.  Assign it to keys, or mouse bindings)

• Freedesktops (similar to MenuLibre)

• Wallpaper (limited, it works also with SpaceFM, PCManFM, and ROX Desktops . . . but would be easy to add support for xseroott, feh, etc.)

What parts are specific to JWM and would not be useful in a non-JWM system

• appearance

• trays

• menus

• startups

• groups

• keys

• icons

• Repair & Restore.Battery Menu

I'm sure I missed something, butt that's the short version and it still seemed kind of long.

So is there much interest in a non-jwm version of JWM Kit, and what would I call it. maybe X-JWM Kit?

A new stable release of JWM Kit is available. Version 20220113. Yep I'm stick with the date based version numbers. I like 'em.
Download packages for Arch and Debian based systems here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jwmkit/files/Packages/

Source Releases is here:
https://codeberg.org/JWMKit/JWM_Kit/releases

Some may see this as a small update, but it is a big update for 2 groups of people.
1. SNDIO user.  - Removes dependency on aucatctl, and improves SNDIO support.
2.  jwm 2.4 user. - Supports the new default configuration location $HOME/.config/jwm/jwmrc

Puppy Linux packages will come latter.

Once last thing. It's old news but some may have missed it. I have posted a collection of JWM Themes, and JWM Button-set on the JWM Kit sourceforge.
Instead of downloading them one by one, just grab the all_themes.zip, and all_buttons.zip to save time.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jwmkit/files/

I'm going to take a guess that  JWM was built without pango.  You can use the command jwm -v to list the compile options. if pango is not listed then that is the problem. If you compiled it yourself, Install libpango1.0-dev and built it again. If you got the package from a repository I'd suggest submiting a bug report.

Hello everyone. Sorry I've been so quite lately.  Life is busy.  I am aware of the new JWM 2.4 release and do plan to update JWM Kit to reflect the recent changes. The change that concerned me most from the release notes was this:

  - Added ~/.config/jwm/jwmrc as the new default location for per-user configuration

I was afraid this may break JWM Kit as it gathers data from the old location.  I have compiled JWM 2.4 on Devuan and tested it and the good news is it does seem to use the old location as a fallback. This means that JWM Kit should continue to work, and from my small amount of testing it appears to work well. In the future JWM Kit will support using the new default location, but it is good to know that the current version still works and there is no need for a rushed release to fix this.  Especially since I am very busy right now.

If any of you are using/testing this new version of JWM I would love to hear your experience.  If you find anything that does not work correctly with JWM Kit let me know.  Thanks.

With the details switch enabled you should be see the terminal window displaying the output, and you should be able to provide input when prompt. I have done this many times before. 
EDIT : At least that's how I remember it. I don't use synaptic a lot. I can't think of any reason why they would of changed the behavior.
EDIT Again : Just tested it by installing wireshark with synaptic. I was able to select yes or no from the text based dialog. First I just clicked inside the output window then continued as normal. . . .Now I have to go uninstall wireshark

I wouldn't say synaptic was broken. Although, It is my opinion the output terminal should be shown by defaults. My advice would be to just leave the "details" option open. I believe once selected it will stay that way until you revert it, I could be wrong on that so feel free to test and prove me right or wrong. Even if it doesn't remember being selected it only a simple mouse click.

I think Synaptic is a much better tool than many of the software centers/stores designed to replace it. I use both it and the command line. Synaptic is a nicer option if you wish to search and browse. 

While this discussion is great none of it actually answer the question.

Most common reason is : If  a package containing a configuration file and is upgraded a choice must be made to either overwrite the old file, or keep it. Since the user could of made custom changes to the config file it is best to allow the user to made the decision.
It is necessary for the prompt to be text based since anything graphical would require dependencies.

Glad to see guys talking about my software.

XFCE is a good choice. It's a simple design even a beginner can use that gets the job done. What I like the most about it is it's long term consistency as opposed to  other desktops that feel the need to completely redesigning and break things as soon as they get everything working again.

@Zapper, I'm concerned you may having something hogging some memory. Maybe I'm confused about your comment.  Do you mean 200MB with apps running? Because no part of JWM Kit runs in the background.  Well, Easy menu runs automatically  when JWM starts, or restarts, but it's open for less then a second and the closes completely. I've made great effort in making sure JWM Kit has no effect on memory usage, and it should use none unless you actually have a part of JWM Kit visible on the screen.  Even then it should not be 200MB. If I have no apps open on my idle jwm / jwmkit setup I see about 67 - 68 MB in HTOP.  Just to test I just opened up 5 JWM Kit tools : Trays, Menu, Appearances, Settings, and Wallpaper, and I'm still only showing 134MB in HTOP.

and . . then I launched Firefox and it jumped to 400MB+ very quickly Can't get around that one. Could just as easily said chromium.

To be fair I would expect RAM usage slightly higher then mine as this is a build machine for JWM Kit Linux and is very striped down and may not be comfortable for everyday use.

Oh and Zapper I closed the last issue. I'll try to make a new package soon. Might even push out a new stable release with the recent changes.