I have been using awesome for over a year and it has become my
preferred window manager for X. Some nice things about it: you can
have both tiled and regular windows in the same workspace and a window
can reside in multiple workspaces (or "tags") at the same time. It
also comes with a fairly easy t
>Cc: GNHLUG-discussion
>Subject: RE: [NH LoCo] Running linux without Gnome/KDE
>
>There's also ratpoison (http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/) and Awesome
>(http://www.actionshrimp.com/2009/02/installing-awesome-window-manager-o
>n-ubuntu-intrepid/).
>
>Good luck custo
[mailto:gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of
> Susan Cragin
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:53 PM
> To: Ubuntu New Hampshire LoCo Team
> Cc: GNHLUG-discussion
> Subject: Re: [NH LoCo] Running linux without Gnome/KDE
>
> >On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:40
>On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Susan Cragin
>wrote:
>> Also tried fvwm by itself. Didn't like it as much as Fluxbox.
>
> FVWM is my preferred window manager/environment. It's lightweight,
>powerful, and hyper-flexible. But "out of the box" it's not much to
>look at; the stock config is pret
[I originally posted the below to the ubuntu-us-nh list; I didn't
realize the thread started on both lists. So here's a copy for
gnhlug-discuss.]
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Susan Cragin wrote:
> I want to run without Gnome or KDE, with just a bare-bones windows manager
> that
> can be con
