From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAdG9-00028G-F9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:48:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j810jgps003425; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:45:42 GMT Received: from mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j810dh1a018230 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:39:44 GMT Received: (qmail 7344 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2005 00:42:01 -0000 Received: from dsl027-182-150.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO chi.speakeasy.net) (rmsand@[216.27.182.150]) (envelope-sender ) by mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 Sep 2005 00:42:00 -0000 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:42:00 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ? Message-ID: <20050831174200.749302e7@chi.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <20050831222821.GB8710@raw-sewage.net> References: <20050831222821.GB8710@raw-sewage.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7c916ff9-5a58-4b68-9039-cad899a48f5d X-Archives-Hash: c4110bf042958eeeb457577ec61d417e On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:28:21 -0500 Matt Garman wrote: > > So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and why? I > wouldn't trade the multitude of options availabe in Linux for > anything, but the choices can be overwhelming. > enlightenment E16. After messing with KDE, Gnome, Openbox, fluxbox, flirting with XCFE and a few others, I came back to Enlightenment. It's fast, doesn't have the feature I hate most - a taskbar. Which, IMO, is the most worthless piece of trash ever created - wastes window space and provides nothing useful in return. I like sliding from one desktop to the other - clicking on a desktop to move to is rather silly. And I hate having my Xroot hidden by Gnome/KDE with their overlays. I detest most icons - mainly those drive icons and mailbox icons. Simply put if I wanted Windows, with a "Start" button and a task bar, I'd run Windows. Bob -- - Are you living in the real world? - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list