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

[Hazen Valliant-Saunders <hazenvs@gmail.com>]

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I used to be partial to E17, too unstable, Xfce4 is nice, not too much
overhead.

GKRellm is nice, ther are others, but I'm more of a console jockey.

2009/9/13 Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@terra.es>

> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:52:40 -0500, forgottenwizard
> <phrexianreaper@hushmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 02:55:34AM +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> >> forgottenwizard <phrexianreaper@hushmail.com> [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,  <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
> >> > >
> >> > > try Openbox, tiny but modern
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Another vote for Openbox. Good little wm. If you want a panel for it,
> >> > I'd suggest fbpanel.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Currently I am playing aroung with fluxbox. The previously missing
> >> feature of a keyboard useable applikation menu is nearly "fixed" :)
> >>
> >> 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?
> >
> > 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
> reduced space.
>
> --
> Jesús Guerrero
>
>


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