I've never use haiku or BeOS, but I've heard so much about them. I should really allow myself some free time to try out some of the non-linux/windows operating systems. Haiku, OpenIndiana, ArcaOS, Icaros, ReactOS, and more.  On another note, didn't someone fork TempleOS recently?  Oh how I wish I had more time to just mess with the stuff.

I was waiting for @zappers input from our discussion before making the suggest  of JWMKit as a possibility for this repository, but I see he already jumped in head first.    I guess he's quicker to action than I am.  Thanks

JWMKit is not in the Debian repository and the project was originally release here on these forums as a Refracta build of Devuan.  I do maintain debs so it should be easy to add to the repository and keep up to date.

I think it would also be nice to see things like JWM themes in the repository, and custom Devuan wallpapers, icons, etc.  Or archives of older Devuan artwork that is not in the current release.

Also having the repository would help deliver the newest versions to the user of my Devuan based JWMKit Linux.

@andyprough

antix has a lot of apps in a Category called X-antiX.  This is a non-standard category so JWM Kit's Easy menu put them in the Other's category. Changing the category will probably affect the other desktop sessions as they are probably configured to dealing with this category.

I can make a fix for this in the next version. It looks like most of these apps belong in settings. So how about merging anything with the X-antiX category into Settings. With the default JWM Kit config this would mean these items would be added to t he JWM Kit Settings panel.

If you want I can also have JWM KIt Settings group these X-antiX apps  together with an "antiX" title over it. (like it does the JWM Kit tools)

Let me know your opinion.

JWM Kit Wallpaper has been replaced with JWM Kit Desktops.  This brings in a lot of nice features.  Many of which are obvious features that were ignored in order to focus on other issues.

• Specific different background for each Virtual Desktops

• Configure the number of desktops

• Configure additional window behaviors such as focus, moving, resizing, snapping

• Configure the button order for the window title bar

• NOTE : The button order feature requires JWM 2.4 or greater

• Find more info and image of JWM Kit Desktops at the Wiki page

You can try out the new JWM Kit Desktops in the new Release of JWM Kit

Source

Packages and build files

I think you need to go back to Head_on_a_Stick's suggestion of using earlyoom. I see it as the real solution here. It will deal with the problem before the system freezes.

Nothing wrong with that.  if it works.  Why make the code more complicated than it needs to be.  Might I suggest using printf instead of echo which supports using \t for tab and \n for new line.  Example.

printf "$(date +'%H:%M')\t\t\t\t$state$symbols\n"

Syntax highlighting is a blessing.  It helps identify content between quotes, brackets,etc and easily find unclosed brackets, quotes.  It can helps identify which code belongs to a certain code block (like a function or class). The advantage go on it. My job would b e so much more difficult without it.

I would think all FOSS software would pledge to maintain Richard Stallman's four essential freedoms of free software.

Thanks for the kind words about JWM Kit. I'm glad people appreciate my work.  JWM Kit builds on the work of the FOSS pioneers before me. The purpose of JWM Kit is to simplify JWM, and do it with as little resources as possible. JWM Kit wouldn't even exist if not for JWM, Linux, or GNU, etc. Big thanks to Joe, Linus, Stallman and so many others.

Just wanted to express my appreciation to others, but reading back over it I think it sound like an acceptance speech at an award ceremony. Oh well not changing it, I'll just let y'all laugh at it.  Wait did I just type y'all? Well I'm not changing that either.

I've noticed JWM (with or without JWM Kit) hardly uses more ram than a session without a window Manager or DE. Pretty amazing. I've also noticed that the memory usage can differ by a good percentage from one machine to another.  I've tracked this down to 2 things.

• A system with more memory automatically uses more memory for cache.

• At such low memory usage hardware driver account for a larger percent of the used RAM. Hardware affects which drivers get loaded and this affects memory usage.

• Also memory usage is a little higher in a virtual machine

I said the parts could be used to enhance a non-jwm system.  I didn't say it would be easy to configure . Maybe a how to or even a special package could be made for DWM.  This whole conversation has me thinking of how to expand JWM Kit to work better outside of JWM.

instability concerns
There is no reason JWM kit should cause instabilities. You can relax,  but If your not using it uninstall it cause I know you want a clean system.

Thought
Considering many Distros use  JWM  I doubt DWM has more user, but I could be wrong. Just a though, I'm not trying to debate the point. Although DWM is rising in popularity. I've not even tried it so I need check it out.

PopVolume

You need alsa-utils installed (or whatever package provides amixer for you distro)

Then you can assign

jwmkit_popvolume t +       #To the key binding, icon, action etc you wish to turn up the volume
jwmkit_popvolume t -       #To turn down the volume
jwmkit_popvolume mute       #To toggle mute

Wallpaper
Didn't expect it to unless you used on of the supported desktops or JWM, but Support could easily be added.  In fact I'm adding it to my TODO list so it will be added.

Setting
Settings should work to provide access to all apps in the "settings" category.  This means it will also list all the JWM Kit tools that will not enhance your system. You can use Freedesktops to hide those tools.

EDIT : correct mute command.

@zapper. This is a response to your comments on another forum concerning JWM Kit. I felt this was a more appropriate place to continue the conversation.

Yes, JWM Kit will work without JWM, but just like any other graphical application you still need some kind of windows manager, or Desktop.  For example XFCE, IceWM,  or gnome.

But why would you want to run JWM Kit without JWM? Well even though JWM Kit will have no effect on the running system it still writes the config files. 

For Example.  You could run JWM Kit under XFCE. Use JWM Kit to create your custom JWM configuration.  Use JWM Kit Repair & Restore to create a restore point.  Copy the the restore point to another machine and use Repair & Restore to install the restore point.

Another advantage of being able to run JWM Kit without JWM is being able to use a non-jwm session to change yoru config.
For example. Lets say you have a machine with both JWM and XFCE installed.  If your JWM config was to get damaged you could login in to the XFCE session and use JWM Kit to repair your configuration.

This ability is also useful to developers who which contribute to JWM Kit. Allowing them to write/modify JWM Kit's  code and test the code while using their preferred WM or DE.

If you can access the network storage by manually entering it in the address bar then I would suggest creating a shortcut in Thunar's left side pane. Right click on the folder and choose sendto > side pane (create shortcut)

edit: changed network -> network storage

@zapper
The code for sndioctl is complete, but no release has been made since the changes were completed.  I guess you knew that though. I'll probably make a new stable release after I make some of the changes needed for 2.4.  Sorry for not rushing out a new release. I understand sndio users see this as an important update, but I must balance my work load and more releases mean more work handling those releases and less time developing of the actual software.

Also zapper, I must apologize for failing to respond to the message you posted on codeberg concerning this. I was not ignoring you. It was just a matter of being involved in too many things at one time.