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 1Mmle9-0001FF-6j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:45:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BA35E0678; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPaqm4.telefonica.net (impaqm4.telefonica.net [213.4.129.24]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7047E0678 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPmailhost1.adm.correo ([10.20.102.38]) by IMPaqm4.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id g9EC1c00C0piX6q3Q9lPCU; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:45:23 +0200 Received: from jesgue.homelinux.org ([78.136.66.163]) by IMPmailhost1.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id g9lM1c0073XLmEe1h9lNtS; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:45:23 +0200 X-TE-authinfo: authemail="i92guboj.terra.es" |auth_email="i92guboj@terra.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitera01" Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:45:21 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jes=C3=BAs_Guerrero?= To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager In-Reply-To: References: <20090912134056.GA29695@solfire> <58965d8a0909121137v5e795624h162b2ba88805baec@mail.gmail.com> <89548dd3f55673f1436a1c07dbeb02c2@smtp.hushmail.com> <20090913005534.GA8194@solfire> Message-ID: <4d075534fe91168ff3e9f8a7d310a4cb@localhost> X-Sender: i92guboj@terra.es User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 38f1d30b-0f60-4738-be2e-95d3909f068a X-Archives-Hash: 96e0781bf1f0b5450a03e93adaf172b2 On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:52:40 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 02:55:34AM +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: >> forgottenwizard [09-09-13 02:12]: >> > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 01:37:45PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: >> > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:40 AM, wrote: >> > > > >> > > > Hi, >> > > > >> > > > for a long time I used IceWM as my windowmanager since I dont >> > > > want to mimicry other OSses (...) or want session management. >> > > > One thing, which is a must-have of windowmanagers I want to use >> > > > is the possibility to control the windowmanager nearly completl= y >> > > > with the keyboard (hotkeys configurable) which does *not* >> > > > imply "uncontrollable by mouse" ;) >> > > > Furthermore I should not be a hana-bi or anything else eye-cand= y >> > > > like (nothing against hana-bi as hana-bi!) -- most of the time >> > > > I will use the windowmanager instead of only looking at it -- >> > > > which >> > > > does not imply: "black anmd white ugly ascii thingy". >> > > > >> > > > Since IceWM seems to be gone into hibernation phase I am lookin= g >> > > > 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 wit= h >> > > > what windowmanagers. >> > > > >> > > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! >> > > > Best regards and have a nice weekend! >> > > > Meino Cramer >> > >=20 >> > > try Openbox, tiny but modern >> > > >> >=20 >> > Another vote for Openbox. Good little wm. If you want a panel for it= , >> > I'd suggest fbpanel. >> >=20 >>=20 >> Hi, >>=20 >> Currently I am playing aroung with fluxbox. The previously missing >> feature of a keyboard useable applikation menu is nearly "fixed" :) >>=20 >> I also installed fbpanel -- what I miss are the two mini-graphs of >> the IceWM-Taskbar, which shows CPU load and net traffic throughput. >> Can I get this anywhere in a way that it is incorparated into >> fbpanel? >=20 > It may be possible, but I don't know how. I used fbpanel as just a > panel, though if you scale it down in width you could run conky and get > the info you want in the exposed area. You can use the fluxbox "slit" to embed wmaker applets, there are quite a lot on portage under the category x11-plugins/ but also in many more places. You could as well use gkrellm which does a lot of things in a very=20 reduced space. --=20 Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero