On Thursday 06 March 2003 00:23, James Michael Fultz wrote:
> * Alexander Futasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05 Mar 2003 20:29]:
> > well, openbox can have bitmaps for all buttons that control the
> > toolbar and windows. it uses xft to give you smooth anti-aliased
> > fonts. and like in waimea you can mousescroll through the desktops.
> > and shade the windows with the mousewheel, drag windows from one
> > desktop to another. also the window to window and window to edge
> > snapping or resistance stuff is very good compared to blackbox.
> > overall its awesome. its what blackbox should have been. and you
> > are right about fluxbox, its mostly just those tabs. which i have
> > no use for.
>
> Fluxbox will do most of the things you mention and other things not
> mentioned.  Workspace switching with mousewheel, dragging windows
> among workspaces, edge-snapping, built-in keygrabber, and ordering
> dockapps in the Slit.  It is also possible to disable window tabs by
> setting "session.tabs" to "false" in `~/.fluxbox/init'.  Using
> Fluxconf (x11-misc/fluxconf) makes that even easier.

Those tabs are the reason I like fluxbox so much. No hasle with windows 
anymore. Good groups file makes life a lot easier. 

> All that said, Openbox appears to have its nicer qualities. 
> Actually, I'm thinking of returning to FVWM. :-)

I used to use Gnome, but when I moved to Gentoo, I thought that I would 
try some alternatives, because portage makes the testing easy (read no 
dependency hunting). I found out that Fluxbox offered all the things I 
need and some things that I couldn't live without anymore like tabs.
As side note I have parts of Gnome and KDE installed, because I like 
Anjuta and I prefer KMail as my MUA. And because I don't use whole 
Gnome or KDE the updates don't take too much time either.

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