On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:52:40 -0500, forgottenwizard <phrexianrea...@hushmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 02:55:34AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> forgottenwizard <phrexianrea...@hushmail.com> [09-09-13 02:12]: >> > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 01:37:45PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: >> > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:40 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: >> > > > >> > > > Hi, >> > > > >> > > > for a long time I used IceWM as my windowmanager since I dont >> > > > want to mimicry other OSses (...) or want session management. >> > > > One thing, which is a must-have of windowmanagers I want to use >> > > > is the possibility to control the windowmanager nearly completly >> > > > with the keyboard (hotkeys configurable) which does *not* >> > > > imply "uncontrollable by mouse" ;) >> > > > Furthermore I should not be a hana-bi or anything else eye-candy >> > > > like (nothing against hana-bi as hana-bi!) -- most of the time >> > > > I will use the windowmanager instead of only looking at it -- >> > > > which >> > > > does not imply: "black anmd white ugly ascii thingy". >> > > > >> > > > Since IceWM seems to be gone into hibernation phase I am looking >> > > > for >> > > > a replacement which should >> > > > -- be widely configurable via ascii files >> > > > -- be as far as possible controllable by keyboard >> > > > -- be also useable with the mouse >> > > > -- no eye-candy >> > > > -- not ugly >> > > > -- NOT tiling >> > > > -- FAST! >> > > > >> > > > I would like to hear from others what experiences they made with >> > > > what windowmanagers. >> > > > >> > > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! >> > > > Best regards and have a nice weekend! >> > > > Meino Cramer >> > > >> > > try Openbox, tiny but modern >> > > >> > >> > Another vote for Openbox. Good little wm. If you want a panel for it, >> > I'd suggest fbpanel. >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> Currently I am playing aroung with fluxbox. The previously missing >> feature of a keyboard useable applikation menu is nearly "fixed" :) >> >> I also installed fbpanel -- what I miss are the two mini-graphs of >> the IceWM-Taskbar, which shows CPU load and net traffic throughput. >> Can I get this anywhere in a way that it is incorparated into >> fbpanel? > > It may be possible, but I don't know how. I used fbpanel as just a > panel, though if you scale it down in width you could run conky and get > the info you want in the exposed area.
You can use the fluxbox "slit" to embed wmaker applets, there are quite a lot on portage under the category x11-plugins/ but also in many more places. You could as well use gkrellm which does a lot of things in a very reduced space. -- Jesús Guerrero
