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

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:40 AM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> 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 completly
>  with the keyboard (hotkeys configurable) which does *not*
>  imply "uncontrollable by mouse" ;)
>  Furthermore I should not be a hana-bi or anything else eye-candy
>  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 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.
>
>  Thank you very much in advance for any help!
>  Best regards and have a nice weekend!
>  Meino Cramer

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