Sandip P. Deshmukh wrote: > i am doing most of my work in console and was looking for a small and > fast window manager for some occasional work there. > > aesthetics, bells and whistles do not matter much. speed and overheads > matter a lot. > > i have heard about ratpoison and [black | flux]box. any feedback from > actual users is welcome. i am currently using windowmaker.
I like Ion. Ion is different from the zillion other window managers around: The basic idea is windows don't partially overlap, instead they tile or totally overlap (have a look at the screnshots if you can't imagine what I am talking about, it will become much clearer). Feels like screen-on-steroids, quite console-ish - some people love it, other despise it. I wouldn't try to give a definitive description of it, though, since there was just a few days ago quite a big thread on the Ion ML to find what would be the right Freshmeat entry for it <g>. There are currently 2 branches: Ion-stable and ion-devel. I would suggest the ion-devel road. Ion-stable is in Debian ; As for ion-devel, unofficial Debian packages exist, but I don't know about them since I don't use them. home page: http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ http://kanin.dsv.su.se/ion-devel/ for Debian packages. -- Raphaël -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]