Re: minimalist window managers [was Re: Preferred applications: IDE, text-editor, music player.]

2008-06-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started with wmii, played with some others, and then stumbled on xmonad and got hooked. to each their own. Just like vimperator... tried it but I'm apparently not a vim guy... emacs seems to suit me better, thus

Re: minimalist window managers [was Re: Preferred applications: IDE, text-editor, music player.]

2008-06-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:01:59AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started with wmii, played with some others, and then stumbled on xmonad and got hooked. to each their own. Just like vimperator... tried it but

Re: minimalist window managers [was Re: Preferred applications: IDE, text-editor, music player.]

2008-06-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 05:16:47PM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: A, On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: if you decide to investigate other minimalist WM's you might look at xmonad. It's all keyboard controlled, tiled with a variety of customizable tiling layouts. pretty

minimalist window managers [was Re: Preferred applications: IDE, text-editor, music player.]

2008-06-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:38:42PM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: Nuno, On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Nuno Magalhães wrote: The thing is i have a few requirements: i want applications that are not desktop-dependant (i.e. Gnome or KDE) and do not rely upon Java. This rules out a lot of text editors.

Re: minimalist window managers [was Re: Preferred applications: IDE, text-editor, music player.]

2008-06-18 Thread Kevin Monceaux
A, On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: if you decide to investigate other minimalist WM's you might look at xmonad. It's all keyboard controlled, tiled with a variety of customizable tiling layouts. pretty fun(unctional). Actually, I was using xmonad before switching to DWM.