On Monday 14 September 2009, Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hey, > > > 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. > > Many people say fluxbox here, but you should also have a look at openbox > (http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Main_Page) which is very similar > but seems to integrate better into freedesktop.org standards. I use > openbox because it gives me the speed and configurability of fluxbux > while all the automagic things (suspend-keys, volume-keys, > powermanagement, plasmoids, ...) that hal and kde4 bring still work. > But maybe the latest version of fluxbox also does that..? I have not > checked on it for a while.
Hmm not sure that Fluxbox does much of that ... I understand that the way Fluxbox works goes against compositing that KDE/Gnome implemented. Does openbox do real transparency, or can you only see the desktop in e.g. aterm? -- Regards, Mick
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