On 8/5/2011 3:12 PM, Christian Barthel wrote: > Hello, > > I read on slashdot that Linus Torvalds moved from Gnome 2.3x to Xfce. It > seems that he isn't thrilled by xfce, but it's far better than Gnome3. > > As a Gnome 2.3x user too, I am also a bit nervouse. Gnome 3 is a big > mistake. And there are also rumors that Gnome will be Linux only. Maybe, > we will never see Gnome3 under FreeBSD, but this is not a tragedy :) > > I am not very interested in eyecandy: I want a stable and fast wm (less > memory and cpu, quick access to important places), different workspaces, > and it should be configurable with ordinary files. Of course, It must > run under FreeBSD. > > I sniffed into AfterStep, fvwm2 and fluxbox (I don't want to use KDE). I > think, fluxbox is a nice wm and for my future, it will be the default wm > for me. It's also very fast and easy to configure. > > Are there any other window manager worth looking? > > What is your window manager? > > Christian,
I'm usually a fluxbox fanatic, but lately, I've been messing with other WM's just for the hell of it. Never was a fan of Gnome, 1.x or 2.x and KDE was just fugly as all getout. But that's just my opinion :D. XFCE4 was always my second choice for a WM, slightly more feature rich but not bloated like Gnome/KDE. If you want to wrastle (yes wrastle!) with gnome-lite[3], that could be a possibility for you as well (it's lite because it doesn't pull in *all* of the deps of a full gnome2 install but you can accidentily pull them in by installing something else) I'm a minimalist at heart, even when I have to use Windows, I prefer EmergeDesktop[1] over the default windows shell. So that said, Fluxbox has always fit the bill as to being as minimalistic yet extensible as I needed it to be when I needed it to be. If your *seriously* hardcore, you can check out ratpoison[2] (good luck on that <evilgrin>) To be perfectly square about it, I honestly went and installed all kinds of Window Managers, Gnome, KDE (yes I still do occasionally try new releases), KFCE, fluxbox/openbox/blackbox as well as a few more obscure and less/non-maintained WM's such as e17 and the ever fabled e18/e19 beta builds and yes, I even tried ratpoison (just keep in mind that the last news even for it was Dec. of '09. Good lucj on your quest for a WM and maybe ... document it for us, others might learn something from your trials and tribulations. [1] http://www.emergedesktop.org [2] http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ [3] x11/gnome2-lite -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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