Welcome and thank you for trying NuTyX-jwm! The following notes will hopefully help you get to know and use your system better. 1. BASIC COMMANDS USED WITH NUTYX 2. THE JWM MENU 3. THE THEME CHANGER 4. CONKY AND CONKY CHOOSER 5. CHANGING MOUSE CURSORS 6. PAPIRUS FOLDERS SCRIPT 7. POWER MANAGEMENT 8. STARTUP COMMANDS 9. THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS _____________________________ BASIC COMMANDS USED WITH NUTYX If you are new to NuTyX, it uses its own package manager called cards. Below are a few basic commands to help get you started. Each one will first show the cards command followed by an alias command (if available) that does the same thing. 1. To check for updates (this command is an alias)... check 2. To search for a package (sudo not required)... cards search the-package-name search the-package-name Note: package names may differ from what you're used to. If no results are returned, try only part of the name. 3. To install a package... sudo cards install the-package-name get the-package-name 4. To remove a package... sudo cards remove the-package-name del the-package-name 5. To upgrade the system (this command syncs the repos and checks for upgrades)... sudo cards upgrade 6. To create a new user... sudo setup-nutyx -cu nu Note: to create a root user, the name must be --> root 7. For more information and options... cards -h man cards 8. Please take the time to visit NuTyX GNU/Linux website's Documentation page for more information about how to use NuTyX. https://www.nutyx.org/en/documentation _____________________________ THE JWM MENU 1. If you're unfamiliar with JWM, the menu not only has a launcher on the panel, but you can left-click anywhere on the desktop to bring up the menu also. 2. The "applications" section of the menu is provided by xdgmenumaker. a) It will adopt the icon set that you choose in Customize Look and Feel. If you change icon sets, you must click on "Refresh Menu" for the applications portion of the menu to adopt the new icon theme. b) It will automatically add or remove any applications that you install (or remove); however, you must click on "Refresh Menu" for them to appear in (or removed from) the menu. 3. Everything outside of the applications section of the menu is hard-coded into the .jwmrc file(s). That includes the icons that are being used. Those portions will not adopt the icon theme that you choose in Customize Look and Feel. If you want to change those icons (or have no icons), you will have to manually edit the .jwmrc file(s) and point to the icons that you want to use. _____________________________ THE THEME CHANGER The theme changer will not automatically adopt any new themes (or edits) that you may create in your .jwmrc file(s). If you want to continue using the theme changer after editing the current .jwmrc file(s), you should replace the .jwmrc file(s) that are located in ~/.config/jwm/Dark-Theme/ or ~/.config/jwm/Light-Theme/ with the one(s) that you have edited or created. If you don't replace them with the ones that you have edited/created, your work will be lost the next time you use the theme changer. _____________________________ CONKY AND CONKY CHOOSER In order for the conky to appear on computers that only have one CPU, I only have one CPU showing in the .conkyrc(s). If you have 2 CPUs, you can simply uncomment the second CPU for it to appear in the conky. If you have more than 2 CPUs, you will need to add them manually by editing the .conkyrc(s). a) Conky Chooser There are 6 conkys available in the Conky Chooser application. You will find it in the menu under... System Accessories > Conky Chooser b) WARNING! Before you edit the .conkyrc, make sure to note the name of the conky that you are going to edit. If you edit the .conkyrc file(s), and you want to have your edited version available in the Conky Chooser, you will have to copy the edited .conkyrc file from your Home folder, and paste it into the Conky's appropriate folder found in... ~/.config/conky/ ...each Conky's .conkyrc file is inside of the folder bearing its name. _____________________________ CHANGING MOUSE CURSORS If you change the mouse cursor theme in Customize Look and Feel, the system will not fully adopt the new theme until you log out and log back in. If you notice that the cursor still reverts to a different cursor when clicking on some items, you will need to also set the cursor in Customize Look and Feel (root account) found in the System Accessories portion of the menu. _____________________________ PAPIRUS FOLDERS SCRIPT The official papirus folders script is included in this release. If you would like to use a different color folder in the file manager, you can run the script to change the folder color. To use the script, open your terminal and enter the following command... papirus-folders -l ...that will list the available colors. After deciding which color you would like to use (I will use black as an example) enter the following command using sudo... sudo papirus-folders -C black The folders will adopt the new color the next time you open a new instance of the file manager. _____________________________ POWER MANAGEMENT Out of the box, simple power management is being provided by xset just to keep the screen from blanking. However, the Xfce4 Power Manager is included if you would prefer a little more control over your power management. Please see the STARTUP COMMANDS section of these notes to see how to change from using xset to the actual power manager. _____________________________ STARTUP COMMANDS Please read this section thoroughly if you're new to using JWM. Turning things on and off at startup will be different than what you're used to. The following items found in the System Accessories category of the menu can be controlled through the Startup Commands section of the .jwmrc file(s)... Conky, Compton, and Touchpad The entries in the menu for those three items are only there for any temporary reason you may need them. The following items are available for you to turn on or off at system startup and are listed in order as they appear in the STARTUP COMMANDS portion of the .jwmrc file(s)... polkit nitrogen (wallpaper) power management touchpad controls number lock compton conky volume icon network manager applet To turn an item on, you must uncomment it in the .jwmrc file. I will use the power manager as an example. In the .jwmrc file(s), I give basic instructions of how to change from using xset to stop screen blanking and using the power manager instead. Here are the instructions... xset s off xset -dpms ...anything that is not running at startup is commented out and will be enclosed with the following... So...for example, if you wanted to use the power manager instead of xset, you would need to enclose both xset commands with those items, and you would need to remove those items from the power manager...so that it would then look like this... xfce4-power-manager Do the same to any of the other items that you want to be on or off at system startup. Save the file, close it, and the system will adopt the changes at next logout/login or reboot. Please make sure to read the section about the theme changer if you want your changes to remain when changing themes. _____________________________ THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First, my deepest and most sincere thanks go to Thierry (the developer of NuTyX GNU/Linux) and anyone else who has a part in making NuTyX GNU/Linux possible. Thierry has provided an absolutely fantastic system! Though it's based on LFS..to me, it's one of the easiest and the most enjoyable Linux systems that I have ever used, and it is my favorite and preferred system! Thank you Thierry! Secondly, I would like to thank the developer of xdgmenumaker. WOW! What an incredible menu he has created! Finally, I would like to thank any users who may give this system a try! Thank you so much for considering NuTyX JWM!!!