On 2010-01-04, Nick Guenther <kou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bod...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I use default fvwm(1) and I'm happy with that. I tried cwm(1) after
>> this post http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20090502141551
>> and I found it very clean and useful, but I still use fvwm(1). Anyway
>> I plan to try this one http://www.scrotwm.org/
>>
>
> I never figured out fvwm. It has multiple desktops and you can drag
> windows between them but it jumps them too far too easily. Tell me,
> what's the appeal? I'm willing to think I'm just not understanding it
> (though points should always be allotted for intuitiveness).
>
> I use wmii with a bunch of dmenu custom menus. I haven't found a file
> manager I like (xfe is the best so far, but it uses some weird custom
> toolkit, thunar is nice but really wants famd, which for some reason
> seems associated with trackerd spinning up and eating my CPU, the
> rox-filer in packages doesn't work right).
hmm, I've been using it for years, what is the problem with ROX?
> doesn't work everywhere, so I keep firefox and epiphany and galeon
> around (why is it that Gecko seems so much slower on OpenBSD than
> Linux?). I try to use mpd but sometimes I just don't bother to set it
> up locally (especially since I have a media server now), so I stick
> with Totem (I hate VLC's UI and mplayer is only really any good for
> one offs; totem is codewise pretty heavy but at least the interface
> makes sense).
I've recently discovered that smplayer is quite nice
> OpenBSD on the desktop feels like a lot of compromises to me :( . If I
> still got off from using the command line everywhere it wouldn't be a
> problem but it is.
nothing beats the command line ;)
Best regards,
Jona
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Worse is better
Richard P. Gabriel
