How to open application in herbstluftwm?

[Member happyland]

I’m a new with herbstluftwm, so how to open application (ex: firefox,…). Thanks

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[Anonymous]

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Official documentation:
https://herbstluftwm.org/tutorial.html#client

video tutorial:
https://youtu.be/HeH10_sUzQ4?t=72

websearch will easily find additional references

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Now that your other topic is solved, please consider posting a followup there to share details of the solution ~~ for the benefit of future readers.
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/bootable-usb-flash-drive-doesnt-work/

[Member happyland]

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Thanks, so can I drag and resize frame of application with mouse?, it only seems to be able to change to half or quarter of the screen

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I’ve only ever tried herbstluftwm on two occasions; once by accident, and the other due to (I suppose) morbid curiousity. It did not end well for me ~~ I resorted to switching to another tty to kill the X session in order to return to my ol’ familiar stacking WM.

From skimming those docs + tutorial that I (websearched and selected and) linked for you, I’m certain they do mention “layouts” and that you will probably want/need to craft a layout to suit your taste (or? to suit the dimensions//resolution of your display? or). If you cannot be bothered to read the docs, shrug, let’s just hope you will not be eaten by a grue.

[Member PPC]

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It’s always advisable, instead of posting a question on the forum as soon as a question/problem pops up, first read the sticky posts and antix’s wiki (link on the top of th forum’s page, anticapitalista put it there for a reason) and if nothing solves your problem, do a web search, then post a question here…
In your case, you didn’t even have to wait for an answer to your original question, if you tried the wiki: https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Herbstluftwm (and scroll down to the “basics”).
For eveything else, please do read the documentation skidoo pointed out- probably no one is going to read it for you to explain everything to you. Maybe if someone is a herb user may want to save you the work…
Tilling window managers are very efficient but you have to be willing to learn a lot of new things (mainly keyboard shortcuts)- if you don’t read the documentation, you’ll probably end up here asking variations on your original question (how do I do xyz?) time and time again…

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EDIT: I didn’t want to sound like I was saying read the (…hum… damn) manual- but at least learn some basics.
You wanted to try antix- good! You went a step further and wanted to try herb? Good. You did that without even knowing that herb is a tilling window manager and how tilling window managers work? Not so good.
Watch a couple of youtube videos on the subject, then read the wiki/ Herb’s antiX’s help document/ the official documentation, etc. Do, at least make an effort. Your question about the size of the windows, to me, makes me think that you are not even aware what a tilling window manager is, in the first place! That’s not a problem: most computer users don’t know what that is. The problem is trying one out without really knowing what it is…

I may offer a kind of half way, so you get into the right frame of mind that allows you to beneficent from using a tilling window manager- use icewm’s (the default antiX desktop) pseudo tilling keyboard shortcuts (to learn more on them: Menu > Control Centre > Edit… Icewm > “keys” tab- read the the file until you reach the keys about changing the window’s size)- that’s “pseudo window tilling” because you are not using a pre set way to arrange your windows (like a window tiller does) but choosing how to arrange your open windows yourself, without having to resize every one of them using the mouse (this psedo tilling is great and is fast, but it only works to 4 open windows, each occupying a quarter of the screen)

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[Member happyland]

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Thanks, so how to change window manager?. I selected herbstluftwm in the first usb flash boot. Then in others boot, although I changed WM in F6 in boot screen or add “desktop=jwm” in bootcode, herstluftwm still is booted, (the persistence mode isn’t ever turned on). So how to change WM in boot screen or in the OS after is booted (command line or open app)? I’m using antix 17

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Even without persistence antiX saves some info, if it can, like, I think, wi-fi passwords- and, probably, from what you are saying, prefered desktop (window manager) too. Please try the explanation provided in the wiki page of how to get back to the default window manager. If it works, reboot and see if at next boot that window manager selection sticks. If not, you’ll have to debug that problem (I would advise creating a new thread on it) or, if you can, reinstalling antix on that USB drive (probably the faster way to solve your problem).

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You get to a terminal in herbstluftwm with the keys Windows + Return
You can also open a Gui for desktop-changing from terminal with

/usr/local/lib/desktop-session/desktop-session-menu-window ignore-settings

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