Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Paul
Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Paul
>> Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> XFCE seems pretty nice. It has a light feel, menus are handled, at
>>>> least in the sense of the apps I had installed and were showing up in
>>>> Gnome menus are there in XFCE. I don't like that it doesn't, at least
>>>> out of the box on my computer, support multiple file drag & drop
>>>> actions, but maybe it supports that sort of thing through cut & paste.
>>>> Not sure. (Just thought of that one.)
>>>
>>> Multiple file drag & drop works fine for me in XFCE. I just created a
>>> folder, highlighted 4 icons from my desktop, dragged them into the
>>> folder and voila, there are 4 things in it.
>>
>> Interesting. Didn't work here for me out of the box. My Gnome desktop
>> had a bunch of files on it. In XFCE I created a folder, dragged my
>> mouse across 2 or more of these files. They looked selected but when I
>> clicked on one of the files and started dragging it the file I clicked
>> on what the only one deposited in the folder. The other files remained
>> selected.
>>
>> I'll look around for some setting about this. Seems very basic though. Strange.
>>
>> Good to know it should work though.
>
> I'm using xfce 4.6.1 in case you're on a different revision than me.
>
> LXDE is another similar one you may want to check out. I haven't tried
> it personally but it looks similar to XFCE, but perhaps even more
> lightweight. I think it is a full desktop environment based around the
> openbox window manager.
>
>
Paul,
   I found that here drag and drop works in a folder but doesn't work
on the desktop.

   xfce-4.6.1 also.

   lxde is masked here. I might give it a try.

   Not that the voting makes any difference but here's an interesting
site trying to answer some similar quetsions:

http://xwinman.org/vote.php

   Just wandering around and looking at screenshots I find I like a
lot of what I see in fvwm, but I'm hesitant to install it as it seems
to use older glib/gtk+ libraries which means more to maintain. It's
not huge so I'm emerging it to take a look.

   Question gets down to how does one make a decision? Not sure about
any performance metrics. Look and feel is obviously a part of it.
Depth of support - email (good) and forums (not so good for me).

Cheers,
Mark