On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:15:26AM -0400, Thomas Kirchner wrote: > This can be a bit daunting, though, so when I was setting it up I > found a fairly good base (taviso's, I believe) and customized the > heck out of it. Now it's perfect for me, and I just can't get rid > of it. I've tried pretty much every other option, but only FVWM > can scratch everyone's exact itch - if they're patient.
I did a search for "taviso" and found his fvwm2rc file: http://dev.gentoo.org/~taviso/fvwm2rc.html There's also a lot of screenshots (and even a video!) of that desktop. After starting this thread, I got to playing with enlightenment DR16 (not ready for 17 yet). Despite being known for the eye candy, it (so far) has proven itself to be a great lightweight window manager. Raster (enlightenment author) wrote a simple window manager benchmark program; see the results of some typical window managers here: http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News I'd like to see some more window manager benchmarks (because I'm a bit suspicious given that enlightenment had the best results in this benchmark). But I ran the two tests on my machine, and my results were consistent with Raster's. In fact, the two "fastest" window managers I tested were enlightenment DR16 and FVWM. I did play with Fvwm for a while, though. And taviso's configuration pretty much proves that *anything* is possible. It just takes so much work to get it looking "nice"! The Fvwm development team might take offense to this, but they could probably improve their "market share" if fvwm looked... different... out of the box. Not that market share is really important here, but it's a bit ironic to see all the window managers that have been written, either from scratch or as hacks on FVWM, when FVWM has been able to do pretty much everything for a long time. Well, now I'm thinking I need to learn X11 programming, and hack on FVWM or something... another project in my infinitely-long queue of started-but-not-finished projects. Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
