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 1MHOSO-0004wU-M0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:43:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9D9CE01FA; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:43:35 +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 7F182E01FA for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:43:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so4976332gxk.10 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:43:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Rmf5NhHCqi1deeGOdz4AZRZpNDWW25xR6726PaiHk1E=; b=N8oV616makcnfOfFWWc7SvcExL3cCq0N+Jvy5Dkboh85iV2HWGhuJmeft6lP8WeJ0D 3ot0jPF7lanqxlZpEA9Hg3Q5LOeglm2Ds5PeAXVB5/5XXLBusOQ38Ck2e4qn5pY2foqa nDegvpL195clxgjh3ovPKU4xxTwa1XoxCvIKI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WZvXlH6i9LV6xe0b/61vnEQrKpHP6Ip1QdYVR+kMnv8+McAN7Yl9V6IHhigNLy99kg VSnyJWKrCoI6FJPTMlnvbt68b91jzWRP/IgVeFAWJPLbJEBFHf6D2c2devMx2qksIGZb QHx+U3vwkNhNtuIC7zo36VovVPDKNaxuPOFpU= 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 10.151.46.15 with SMTP id y15mr4285042ybj.302.1245357815214; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:43:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0906181111qc6a119eg8c5c42455ce1b1f5@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0906170553w3b73c15ehd1b8cacaaf52c7c4@mail.gmail.com> <4A3A4A91.5010204@virtadpt.net> <5bdc1c8b0906180923j5e794b4fpdc7bf6d01d17bd63@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0906180959x130bca86yf3bd30364f2f23ab@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0906181005w7c7fe9e9q5c5f6c404046f392@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0906181111qc6a119eg8c5c42455ce1b1f5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:43:35 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0906181343v1b6b6803iad4fdaaacf9d51d3@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [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: 1a359ca7-f8df-4023-af1d-239ffd187949 X-Archives-Hash: 1e3616d862a230f35879f7d814bf44ca On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Paul >> Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mark Knecht 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