On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 09:30:49AM +1000, John H. Moe wrote: > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <meta content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> > <title></title> > </head> > <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> > Lars Gustäbel wrote: > <blockquote cite="mid:20090912163747.ga1...@axis.g33x.de" type="cite"> > <pre wrap="">On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, <a > class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" > href="mailto:meino.cra...@gmx.de";>meino.cra...@gmx.de</a> wrote: > </pre> > <blockquote type="cite"> > <pre wrap=""> I would like to hear from others what experiences they made > with > what windowmanagers. > </pre> > </blockquote> > <pre wrap=""><!----> > Hi! > > I've been using fvwm2 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" > href="http://fvwm.org";>http://fvwm.org</a>) for years now and am quite happy > with > it. Although it may look old and strange at first (the default settings are > rather horrible IIRC), it is possible to configure every tiny detail of it > using config files. I am still sometimes amazed of what you can do with it. > The fvwm manpage has everything you need to know. > The complexity is also its main drawback: it took me several weeks to have > it the way I wanted it. fvwm is indeed rather complicated at first but that's > why it's so powerful. It is really flexible and you can still use all the > little gui tools out there from other window managers. One cool feature of > fvwm > is that you can assign different window styles based on the application, e.g. > I > have a graphical system monitor on my third desktop, that is started when I > log > in via .xinitrc and always stays on bottom, never gets the focus and does not > appear in the window list or on the task bar, so it does not interfere with > the > rest of the system at all. > Before using fvwm2 I used KDE which had too much stuff I didn't really need. > (However, I am still using the KDE kicker panel with fvwm, which I think is > quite funny.) When I looked for a new window manager I tried fluxbox for a > few > days, but it did not convince me. Then I tried fvwm and stayed with it. > > Regards, > > </pre> > </blockquote> > Vote #2 for FVWM.<br> > <ul> > <li>It does nothing (or at least, an absolute minimum) by default</li> > <li>you can configure it to be just about whatever you want</li> > <li>man pages explicitly say it can be used mouse-less, and I'm like > you: I grew up with old, command-line systems and am still more > comfortable with that :-P so I've configured most mouse bindings > to > keys as well</li> > <li>Support for extras via FVWM Modules, so that the core system > itself stays small. If you want to add a desktop pager, add the > FVWMPager module. If you want a taskbar, add the FVWMTaskBar > module. > Even a popup banner at startup with FVWMBanner, if you're in to that > sort of thing.. :-P</li> > <li>However, as previous poster pointed out, all this configurability > is also a bit of a drawback, in that there are a LOT of configuration > items to trawl through to find what you want. But most things I've > wanted to do I've been able to find an example of on the FVWM forums, > which are quite helpful.<br> > </li> > <li>From what I've read, you can also use FVWM-Themes to try and get > a jump start with some possible configs, but I've never used them, so I > can't comment on their worth or helpfulness<br> > </li> > </ul> > HTH<br> > <br> > John Moe<br> > </body> > </html> >
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