How to Switch to a Window Manager Setup
Channel: Emilia Merge
Date: 16/10/2021

Local anime girl installs cwm and rambles about software

Relevant links:
The screen locking video I mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOEjdQIA-9Q
Learn more about all these programs (on any distro): https://wiki.archlinux.org/
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Typing the package list
01:55 Rambling about window managers
04:52 Rambling about terminals
05:29 Rambling about wallpaper setters
06:17 Rambling about panels
07:03 Rambling about screen lockers
08:00 Rambling about sxhkd and hotkeys in general
09:00 Rambling about notification daemons
09:38 Rambling about polkit agents
10:39 Rambling about volumeicon
11:16 Remembering screenshot tools exist
12:32 Package list again
13:03 Rambling about other types of sotware
13:14 Rambling about backlight setters
13:54 Rambling about app launchers
15:34 Rambling about system trays
16:04 Rambling about compositors
17:07 Installing compton and xscreensaver extras
18:00 Acknowledging I may still have forgotten stuff
18:28 Initial config18:50 ~/.cwmrc (cwm-specific)
21:04 Setting background with the wrong feh command
21:49 Actually setting background with feh
22:40 ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xsession, or wm autostart script
26:52 Software rec in the middle of startup script
29:42 One more software rec in the middle of startup script
32:09 /usr/share/xsessions/default-xsession.desktop
35:59 Signing in to this window manager
36:58 Exploring CWM a bit
38:18 Final rambling

After I upload this, I plan on trying to replace udev. Depending on how that goes, an upcoming video may be how to do that, how to fix an unbootable Gentoo install, or how to reinstall Gentoo.