I used to be partial to E17, too unstable, Xfce4 is nice, not too much overhead.
GKRellm is nice, ther are others, but I'm more of a console jockey. 2009/9/13 Jesús Guerrero <i92gu...@terra.es> > On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:52:40 -0500, forgottenwizard > <phrexianrea...@hushmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 02:55:34AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> forgottenwizard <phrexianrea...@hushmail.com> [09-09-13 02:12]: > >> > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 01:37:45PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:40 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> > > > > >> > > > Hi, > >> > > > > >> > > > for a long time I used IceWM as my windowmanager since I dont > >> > > > want to mimicry other OSses (...) or want session management. > >> > > > One thing, which is a must-have of windowmanagers I want to use > >> > > > is the possibility to control the windowmanager nearly completly > >> > > > with the keyboard (hotkeys configurable) which does *not* > >> > > > imply "uncontrollable by mouse" ;) > >> > > > Furthermore I should not be a hana-bi or anything else eye-candy > >> > > > like (nothing against hana-bi as hana-bi!) -- most of the time > >> > > > I will use the windowmanager instead of only looking at it -- > >> > > > which > >> > > > does not imply: "black anmd white ugly ascii thingy". > >> > > > > >> > > > Since IceWM seems to be gone into hibernation phase I am looking > >> > > > for > >> > > > a replacement which should > >> > > > -- be widely configurable via ascii files > >> > > > -- be as far as possible controllable by keyboard > >> > > > -- be also useable with the mouse > >> > > > -- no eye-candy > >> > > > -- not ugly > >> > > > -- NOT tiling > >> > > > -- FAST! > >> > > > > >> > > > I would like to hear from others what experiences they made with > >> > > > what windowmanagers. > >> > > > > >> > > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > >> > > > Best regards and have a nice weekend! > >> > > > Meino Cramer > >> > > > >> > > try Openbox, tiny but modern > >> > > > >> > > >> > Another vote for Openbox. Good little wm. If you want a panel for it, > >> > I'd suggest fbpanel. > >> > > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Currently I am playing aroung with fluxbox. The previously missing > >> feature of a keyboard useable applikation menu is nearly "fixed" :) > >> > >> I also installed fbpanel -- what I miss are the two mini-graphs of > >> the IceWM-Taskbar, which shows CPU load and net traffic throughput. > >> Can I get this anywhere in a way that it is incorparated into > >> fbpanel? > > > > It may be possible, but I don't know how. I used fbpanel as just a > > panel, though if you scale it down in width you could run conky and get > > the info you want in the exposed area. > > You can use the fluxbox "slit" to embed wmaker applets, there are quite > a lot on portage under the category x11-plugins/ but also in many more > places. > > You could as well use gkrellm which does a lot of things in a very > reduced space. > > -- > Jesús Guerrero > > -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
