On 2016-09-24, David Haller <gen...@dhaller.de> wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Grant Edwards wrote: >>Would anybody care to make a recommendation? > > Ever checked out WindowMaker (x11-wm/windowmaker)? The default config > is quite clunky though, but there's many themes and stuff.
I think I tried once upon a time (back when I was looking for a fvwm replacement and ended up switching to XFCE). > But I'm not sure what you mean by root-window menu / task-bar / > toolbar. You got it right. >>I don't want any storage auto-mounter, network manager, modem manager, >>or any of that sort of thing. Anything with "manager" in the name is >>probably right out. > > Neither do I :) As well as most anything with "Kit". Back in the SunOS/Solaris days, it was anything ending in "tool". > But no fear, you need to do that only once, I did that in IIRC 2002 or > so with WMaker 0.65 and never touched that config ever again. I think > there was once some feature renamed or so, but you get that with > xemacs/mutt/tin as well. > > So, IMO it's should be worth a look. But _do_ have a look through the > config-tool at the options (like the focus and moving stuff) and > ignore the UI-look, that can be tuned a lot, the default is rather > boring (but functional). Thanks, I'll add WindowMaker to the list. > Apart from that: LXDE comes to mind. That too. -- Grant
