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 1MGudq-0007o5-05 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:53:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20DE6E041A; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:53:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f207.google.com (mail-gx0-f207.google.com [209.85.217.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14BDE041A for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:53:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so1207845gxk.10 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:53:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GFBwROWvOcH8I2AWozX52Hu92ccHmalFdHQsYlLtm1o=; b=JySMMMq/TnRzkcIlBT/hex6kO+Ovy5Xo3XBhp4EFiuo8tInqYFy4jdHVkULEedX9GM sk5IVthW78oVURh+ToxhXCsm15eTruyFhjQMgh/9jIkG1l28DCfOkW3RqeJ5vednXKEI BcYq63LjDwfOWWsOiOjlhobcMgtX5Ln5cybMk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=eKf9LQTG0sxUg+gMf/3nlveGwqyqi/6qHpUaRqVKUf9/FjWZG+9kZB4gn/vWoh6rhf 9tmthbanJDIdMOWa5XPOOo652/XogMzbI8CsQkGdANZ3rBiPp6Q0RkrV6jmZWSX86QL2 ohWBhX63WzY6kw9M74jcPK7FD04TeaLd8NxLo= 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 Received: by 10.151.138.13 with SMTP id q13mr1146451ybn.179.1245243202238; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:53:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:53:22 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0906170553w3b73c15ehd1b8cacaaf52c7c4@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: aa392c10-37f2-4140-b489-a634b79ce252 X-Archives-Hash: 3e652d52d0fdc068362bcdd9aa48ce62 Hi, A discussion on another list made me realize I'm a little tired of Gnome. It does what I need, mostly, but it feels sort of old and dry. I haven't run KDE in years but I'm hesitant to build it and keep it up to date. I really think I'd like something more minimalistic. I ran fluxbox years ago and liked that it was small and fast but at the time getting to apps was a hand-crafted menu editing task that I'd rather not repeat today. 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? From a pure-fun standpoint something 3D might be fun, but I don't need it and expect that my old ATI Radeon X300 card probably isn't up to the task anyway. How do others choose a window manager and what do you value in your window manager that makes you stick with it? Thanks, Mark lightning ~ # eix | grep x11-wm * x11-wm/aewm++ * x11-wm/aewm++-goodies * x11-wm/aewm * x11-wm/afterstep * x11-wm/amiwm * x11-wm/awesome * x11-wm/blackbox * x11-wm/compiz * x11-wm/compiz-fusion * x11-wm/ctwm * x11-wm/dwm * x11-wm/echinus * x11-wm/emerald * x11-wm/enlightenment * x11-wm/evilwm * x11-wm/fluxbox * x11-wm/flwm * x11-wm/fvwm * x11-wm/icewm * x11-wm/ion * x11-wm/jwm * x11-wm/larswm * x11-wm/lwm * x11-wm/matchbox * x11-wm/matchbox-common * x11-wm/matchbox-desktop * x11-wm/matchbox-panel * x11-wm/matchbox-window-manager [I] x11-wm/metacity * x11-wm/openbox * x11-wm/oroborus * x11-wm/oroborus-extras * x11-wm/pekwm * x11-wm/plwm * x11-wm/ratpoison * x11-wm/sawfish * x11-wm/selectwm * x11-wm/stumpwm * x11-wm/treewm [I] x11-wm/twm * x11-wm/vtwm * x11-wm/windowlab * x11-wm/windowmaker * x11-wm/wm2 * x11-wm/wmii * x11-wm/xmonad * x11-wm/xmonad-contrib lightning ~ #