Richard Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ]
> 1. not but-ugly, like TWM, VTWM, CTWM, and FVWM > I care more about functionality, but these are simply > depressing to look at. <url: http://terje.kvernes.no/tmp/snapshot2.png >. is this butt-ugly? [ ... ] > Sawfish is pretty nice, but I'm so sick of LISP-configurable SW I > think I'm going to puke. Trying to get Sawfish to do anything it > is fully capable of doing is a major endeavor for me, because I > just don't seem to be able to think the way LISP programmers do. you have my sympathy. for me, the almost-lisp part of Sawfish is the only redeeming feature of Sawfish. [ ... ] > 1. move a window to a pre-specified position on the screen check. > 2. enlarge a window by X pixels in width or height check. > 3. make a window a specified width by height, or one or the > other check. > 4. move a window to another desktop (but stay in the one you're > in). check. > 5. cycle between windows (not with a menu or pop-up window) check. > 6. don't cycle between some of the windows (e.g., gkrellm). check. > 7. for some X applications, put them on a pre-specified desktop > when they start (i.e., xterms on 1, ide on 2, browsers on 4, > etc.). check. > 8. de-iconify a window (usually this involves popping up a menu > and selecting which one you want (using the keyboard -- and not > the damn arrow keys -- sawfish could do this - or some LISP I > wrote, I can't remember). not sure about this one, I don't use icons and rarely ever minimize windows -- I just have 16-odd virtual desktops instead. > Does anyone know of a window manager that can come close? Does > anyone know of one that they are just impressed with the keyboard > shortcut configurability? due to space issues at home, I can't really use a mouse with my current fvwm setup. I never miss it though, as I do everything I need to do with the keyboard. > And for this last one, I'm not talking about some small set of > events that the author identified as worthy of keyboard > accessibility (a la WindowMaker, Enlightenment, Blackbox, <almost > all of them>). I'm talking about something like twm had, where > _everything_ can be done with the keyboard. yup. with fvwm I can also send mouse-events (clicks and move the mouse) with the keyboard, if the application really needs to talk to a mouse for some reason. -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
