On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 01:10:58PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:42:15 -0500 > Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Are there other window > > managers we could use in the name of minimalism? > > There are approximately one million, three hundred and thirty two > thousand, one hundred and ninety eight excellent window managers you > can use in the name of minimalism. > > You know how all email clients suck? Well, almost all window managers > are great. Go figure. > > For the guy who wants a classic win98 interface (I love these), there's > LXDE. Rock solid, has all the right stuff and no more: It's wonderful. > > If you want to go seriously lightweight, jwm is a win98-like interface > that's light as a feather. > > Right down there between LXDE and jwm is fvwm, whose setup requires > quite a learning curve, but you can make your fvwm setup work any way > you want. > > Perhaps you want maximum real estate, with no panel (Windows taskbar). > twm, fluxbox, blackbox, and my favorite, Openbox, fill that need to a > Tee. Added status points, because when someone sees you using one of > these, they *know* you're on a level above Windows and OS/x. Combine it > with dmenu (described later). > > All the preceding are floating window managers. There are zillions of > excellent tiling window managers too. I like dwm from Suckless Tools. > My friend Chris gave a presentation on i9 where he lighting quick > rearranged things at the keyboard, always having enough room on the > current app to do his work. There's awesome, supposedly written in Lua > so you can configure it and give it new capabilities by writing a > little Lua code. > > Keep in mind that whoever is willing to roll up their sleeves and > configure can install and integrate dmenu from Suckless Tools on most > of these window managers, and once dmenu is configured to your hands' > liking, you'll double or triple your window manager productivity. > > There's absolutely no end to excellent lightweight window managers. Now > if you're asking which should be the Devuan default, I'd say LXDE, > because anybody can walk right up to an LXDE interface and start using > it. It's like a one-panel Xfce with a few less features.
I installed LXDE into my devuan alpha 2 system, but I do not know how to ask for it. My system boots into a green login screen and when I log in it starts me off with xfce instead. In the old days when I ran Debian, it would start with a login screen where I could find a menu and select a window manager. I'm arguing for discoverability here. -- hendrik > > HTH, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > November 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques > of the Successful Technologist > http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
