[Klug-general] Window Managers

[Danny Stewart]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:17:12AM +0100, Julia Freeman wrote:
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> 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).
> 
> Would anyone like a talk at Dover in May on some of the other interesting
> window manglers out there? 
> 
> J
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If I can make it I would love to.

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danny