[Klug-general] Window Managers

[Danny Stewart]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:09:42AM +0100, David Halliday wrote:
> I used to like fluxbox, it is light weight like EvilWM but a little more
> user friendly.
> 
> I liked features like tabbing of applications (you can even mix them).
> It has a feature called the "slit" which is a very versatile dock for
> applications (including monitors and in the old days a "mount app" for
> drives). While it wasn't for application launching it worked well.
> 
> The only things that Ubuntu gave me that fluxbox on Debian didn't (without
> more customisation than I was prepared to invest time on):
> - Resize windows from more than a small part of the corner.
> - A collection of GUI applications for system administration (I'm aware this
> isn't so much a shortfall in fluxbox but an aspect of Ubuntu as a distro but
> it was a big decider).
> 
> Perhaps next time I have a spare few hours I might well put Debian on my
> desktop and get back going with fluxbox.
> 
> I was interested in enlightenment, but when I tried it previously I couldn't
> get into the configuration and themes seemed complicated (this was some many
> years ago) So I imagine (hope) that things have changed in the past 6 -10
> (I'm not sure of the last time I tried it with any seriousness).
> 
> On 27 March 2011 14:14, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:
> 
> > I'm wondering if the best Desktop Environment would to take the EvilWM
> > window nanager, and add the dock (except we can't call it that of Unity
> >
> > Maybe forgetting the idea of a shared menu bar (it does not work with every
> > app anyway), as something that came out of the 1980s Cira Gem Desktop (Atari
> > ST) and has not been done again since....... (except the mac never actually
> > managed to lose it........
> >
> > Peter

I'd like to mention xmonad and i3.. of which the latter is my current
favorite.

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danny