Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28 2009, AG wrote:
Care to elaborate on that, John? This is a serious question - I used
to use Xfce back in the days of Slackware 8.1, but that was still a WM
(or was that a DE?). Are you referring to those FWM-like systems, or
something entirely different?
I use fvwm. This allows far more control: for example, see here
for window decorations:
http://www.twobarleycorns.net/fvwm-decors.html
Here is a mac osxy look and feel using fvwm:
http://www.guistyles.com/wp-gallery/fvwmmilk2ny.jpg
A bit snow blindingly white, but it has decent aesthetics.
Here are some screen shots:
http://fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/
Here is where you see a tutorial to create bouncing docks, all
by yourself:
http://www.zensites.net/fvwm/guide/advanced_buttons.html
Here is a tutorial:
http://www.zensites.net/fvwm/guide/index.html
You get to create gestures, and bind them to keys, and with
fvwm-themes it is themable, it can be extended, and you can use perl
functions to add to fvwm.
All in all, I would say while heavy customization takes time,
you can rarely get this level of control elsewhere.
manoj
Manoj
That's a really impressive set of eye candy actually. I like the look
of it. In the past, looking at FVWM it has appeared grey and "clunky"
in its unaltered state and I guess that I just backed away from fiddling
with all of the configurations. Same reason I have tended not to go
beyond dipping my toe in fluxbox/ blackbox waters. But, from the pics
you have shown it looks like it might be worth playing with in the
background on a slow work/ study day because the configurations don't
appear too taxing if approached methodically.
Thank you for that. Certainly worth taking a more sympathetic and
closer look than I have hitherto done.
Cheers
AG