[Klug-general] Window Managers

James Morris jwm.art.net at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 10:34:04 UTC 2011


On 28 March 2011 11:09, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:
> I used to like fluxbox, it is light weight like EvilWM but a little more
> user friendly.

Fluxbox is completely different to EvilWM. But I Can't think of the
technical terms for their placement strategies right now so can't
elaborate.

Fluxbox combined with devilspie is pretty cool.

Another great thing about Fluxbox is the ease of creating custom
menus. I like to mess about compiling audio applications which most
system menus don't find, so wrote a script to scan through them all
and create custom menus.

http://jwm-art.net/code/lau_flux_menu_0.0.2

obligatory screenshot:

http://jwm-art.net/code/lau_flux_menu_0.0.1.png

The shutdown menu entry is interesting: It opens an xterm, colours it
bright red and issues sudo halt. devilspie captures the xterm window
and pins it on all workspaces, centers it, removes the window
title+border, and layers it on top of all other windows. The sudo
command is issued with the option to change the message so it's more
polite.

James.


> 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
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