Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers
On 03:18 Fri 30 Dec , Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. I've already emerged them, but I'd like to have them available as separate sessions when I log in, and possibly migrate to one of them as default (or only) session available. Over the past 3 years, I have been on a quest for a minimalist and functional window/desktop manager. It seems like I've tried everything. I started off with kde, hated the kitchensink approach they take, so I moved to gnome, which was, indeed, more subdued, some say boring. The standard package fit me okay, but it was so heavyweight, I used none of the desktop function except freecell and the weather applet. So I went minimalist with kahakai, interesting, but ultimately not worth the ongoing effort, then to ratpoison. which I dumped after a week or two. Brief visits to ion and icewm, finally settled on XFCE-4 for maybe a year and a half. It's minimalist as a desktop manager, but again, I used almost none of its functionality, I do everything except surfing the web from the commandline. I saw a number of people who opinions I value using fluxbox, so I decided to try that. I'm glad it came with good recommendations, because when I opened it up in its default configuration, it was almost as butt-ugly as ratpoison. I emerged the themes, played around with them, settled down with one, and now feel settled. The ease of configuration, the basic simplicity, the choice of themes, seems just right for me. Good luck in finding the one that is just right for you. Bill Roberts pgpQRfFWGRCNR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers
Fluxbox is tight. Really slick, clean, fast, and yet, still very manageable/configurable. I think you'd love it... just my opinion... http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/fluxbox-config.xml ;-) Bill Roberts wrote: On 03:18 Fri 30 Dec , Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. I've already emerged them, but I'd like to have them available as separate sessions when I log in, and possibly migrate to one of them as default (or only) session available. Over the past 3 years, I have been on a quest for a minimalist and functional window/desktop manager. It seems like I've tried everything. I started off with kde, hated the kitchensink approach they take, so I moved to gnome, which was, indeed, more subdued, some say boring. The standard package fit me okay, but it was so heavyweight, I used none of the desktop function except freecell and the weather applet. So I went minimalist with kahakai, interesting, but ultimately not worth the ongoing effort, then to ratpoison. which I dumped after a week or two. Brief visits to ion and icewm, finally settled on XFCE-4 for maybe a year and a half. It's minimalist as a desktop manager, but again, I used almost none of its functionality, I do everything except surfing the web from the commandline. I saw a number of people who opinions I value using fluxbox, so I decided to try that. I'm glad it came with good recommendations, because when I opened it up in its default configuration, it was almost as butt-ugly as ratpoison. I emerged the themes, played around with them, settled down with one, and now feel settled. The ease of configuration, the basic simplicity, the choice of themes, seems just right for me. Good luck in finding the one that is just right for you. Bill Roberts -- Darth Vader: The force is with you young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. I've already emerged them, but I'd like to have them available as separate sessions when I log in, and possibly migrate to one of them as default (or only) session available. I've only used KDE and Gnome in the past, and they are very polished, at least in the aspect that they automatically are added as alternative sessions. I know we have some alternative window manager users around, so I figured this would be the best place to ask how to set these alternative window managers up in Gentoo. I have a couple of boxen, one that uses gdm and one that uses kdm. It would be nice if the instructions were portable between both of these X login managers, but I'm fairly confident that I can use instructions for either one to set up the other. For anyone interested in what WMs I'm trying out: x11-wm/ratpoison x11-wm/ion3 x11-wm/wmii I also might try out StumpWM at some point, but I couldn't find an ebuild for it in the current portage tree. I'm a big fan of both Lisp and GNU-Screen, so these window managers intrigued me. I wound up in the same kind of mood as you and in my searching any playing I have settled on WindowMaker for some time now, and currently plan to stay. A bit different in approach and that is what caught my attention. http://www.windowmaker.org/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
