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

["Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@terra.es>]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:34:27 -0400, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>
wrote:
> 090912 Lars Gustäbel wrote:
>> I've been using fvwm2 for years now ...
>> I have a graphical system monitor on my third desktop ...
> 
> Can you have multiple desktops with Fvwm ?
> I couldn't find anything about it in the manual
> & dropped further investigation of Fvwm as a result.

Obviously you didn't look too much into fvwm. By default you
only have to move the mouse across the screen border to change
to another "page" using the fvwm terminology.

This is configurable of course, you have the DesktopSize option
which configures the number of pages on each desktop, you can as
well define many desktops, each of them with many pages. It's
far more powerful than the average WM in that regard, certainly
more powerful than xfwm, kwin or metacity (which is the dumbest
wm ever in my humble opinion).

Fvwm is not for the lazy, though. But it can do *almost* anything,
my only complain about it is the xinerama support, I am just one
of the xrandr haters out there. 

Menus also can be defined and accessed using keybindings. Or you
could very well use just keybindings and don't use menus, which
is what I do.
-- 
Jesús Guerrero