Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager

[Thomas Kahle <tom111@gmx.de>]

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Hey,

>  Since IceWM seems to be gone into hibernation phase I am looking for 
>  a replacement which should 
>  -- be widely configurable via ascii files
>  -- be as far as possible controllable by keyboard
>  -- be also useable with the mouse
>  -- no eye-candy 
>  -- not ugly
>  -- NOT tiling
>  -- FAST!
>  
>  I would like to hear from others what experiences they made with
>  what windowmanagers.

Many people say fluxbox here, but you should also have a look at openbox
(http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Main_Page) which is very similar
but seems to integrate better into freedesktop.org standards. I use
openbox because it gives me the speed and configurability of fluxbux
while all the automagic things (suspend-keys, volume-keys,
powermanagement, plasmoids, ...) that hal and kde4 bring still work.
But maybe the latest version of fluxbox also does that..? I have not
checked on it for a while.

cheers
Thomas


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Thomas Kahle

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mathematical theorem it can be applied free of charge and everybody
has access to its proof and can convince himself how it works. Why
should software be any different?


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