On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 09:30:49AM +1000, John H. Moe wrote: > > > > > > > > Lars Gustäbel wrote: >

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>

 I would like to hear from others what experiences they made with
>  what windowmanagers.
>


> Hi!
> 
> I've been using fvwm2 (http://fvwm.org) for years now and am quite happy with
> it. Although it may look old and strange at first (the default settings are
> rather horrible IIRC), it is possible to configure every tiny detail of it
> using config files. I am still sometimes amazed of what you can do with it.
> The fvwm manpage has everything you need to know.
> The complexity is also its main drawback: it took me several weeks to have
> it the way I wanted it. fvwm is indeed rather complicated at first but that's
> why it's so powerful. It is really flexible and you can still use all the
> little gui tools out there from other window managers. One cool feature of fvwm
> is that you can assign different window styles based on the application, e.g. I
> have a graphical system monitor on my third desktop, that is started when I log
> in via .xinitrc and always stays on bottom, never gets the focus and does not
> appear in the window list or on the task bar, so it does not interfere with the
> rest of the system at all.
> Before using fvwm2 I used KDE which had too much stuff I didn't really need.
> (However, I am still using the KDE kicker panel with fvwm, which I think is
> quite funny.)  When I looked for a new window manager I tried fluxbox for a few
> days, but it did not convince me. Then I tried fvwm and stayed with it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>

> Vote #2 for FVWM.
>

It does nothing (or at least, an absolute minimum) by default
you can configure it to be just about whatever you want
man pages explicitly say it can be used mouse-less, and I'm like > you: I grew up with old, command-line systems and am still more > comfortable with that :-P so I've configured most mouse bindings to > keys as well
Support for extras via FVWM Modules, so that the core system > itself stays small. If you want to add a desktop pager, add the > FVWMPager module. If you want a taskbar, add the FVWMTaskBar module. > Even a popup banner at startup with FVWMBanner, if you're in to that > sort of thing.. :-P
However, as previous poster pointed out, all this configurability > is also a bit of a drawback, in that there are a LOT of configuration > items to trawl through to find what you want. But most things I've > wanted to do I've been able to find an example of on the FVWM forums, > which are quite helpful.
>
From what I've read, you can also use FVWM-Themes to try and get > a jump start with some possible configs, but I've never used them, so I > can't comment on their worth or helpfulness
>

> HTH
>
> John Moe
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