From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGxfU-0005E7-73 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:07:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 358BCE0442; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.sgi.com [192.48.179.30]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22790E0442 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [150.166.39.100]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B2330408B for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:07:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (conejo.engr.sgi.com [150.166.8.69]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n5HG70lB030409 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:07:00 -0700 Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n5HG70rg356324 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:07:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rsanders@localhost) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id n5HG6xrW352780 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:06:59 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager? Message-ID: <20090617160659.GD355800@sgi.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org References: <5bdc1c8b0906170553w3b73c15ehd1b8cacaaf52c7c4@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0906170850l5d9b5363x59d24d596ccaaf70@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0906170902i329df75fi17ae7bfb63a0dcf3@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0906170902i329df75fi17ae7bfb63a0dcf3@mail.gmail.com> Organization: SGI, Mountain View, California, U.S.A. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4a50ceb7-3e9d-4961-bbf4-00c2c93acfd1 X-Archives-Hash: 8f22c4ec742b77a1a4a10c180516c568 Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Paul > Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Mark Knecht wr= ote: > >> > >> =C2=A0 QUESTION: Is there something small, fast but also easy to use= in > >> terms of the environment automatically creating menus when apps are > >> added or removed with emerge? > >> > >> =C2=A0 How do others choose a window manager and what do you value i= n your > >> window manager that makes you stick with it? > > > > >=20 > Hi Paul, >=20 > I guess the other thing that I'm interested in is getting beyond > this "flat/old Gnome is sort of like Windows" sensation that I am > feeling right now so to warrant the effort to actually use something I > suppose I am really looking for something with a really different feel > but it still really works in terms of getting jobs done. Something > that makes me feel good about even firing up the desktop. >=20 > Cheers, > Mark >=20 >=20 Enlightenment 0.16 - either you like it so that even after switching to others, you always come back. Or you just don't get along with it. The only time I've gone for a lighter weight WM has been on a netbook where LXDE is run. Bob --=20 - =20