[Klug-general] Window Managers

[David Halliday]

At one point in history I used the RW desktop:
http://toastytech.com/guis/desk.html

<http://toastytech.com/guis/desk.html>
On 28 March 2011 12:00, Danny Stewart <zerosixtwoeightone at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> danny
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