Thanks for the responses. I'll be installing it today and issuing a little summary about it later on in a week or so. Thanks, Ringo Kamens
On 2/22/07, Vim Visual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
PS: And of course it's _extremely_ fast. The whole wm is ~150KB :) 2007/2/22, Vim Visual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I recently had the same "problem" and spent some time looking for a > wm. I've tried many of them and in my case there are two winners, if > you feel comfortable with your keyboard. I'm talking about the > dynamical wm wmii and ion > > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cpion.html > > http://tnemeth.free.fr/ion/ > > http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/ > > But wmii is probably better. Check it out yourself. > They are based on the same philosophy behind this article > > http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/581/ > > "Since I can only see what I'm working on at this moment, I have to > make the choice to go to something else. I can't be distracted by text > in an X-Chat window behind this one, or by buddies appearing and > disappearing in the Gaim window in the corner. If someone messages me, > centericq will play a sound; I don't need to watch IM obsessively. If > I'm distracted, it's because my mind is distracted by a thought of > something else, not because of a flash of color in the periphery of my > vision. > > Since there's nothing to tweak, I'm not tempted to endlessly fidget > with my windows and reconfigure my window manager, moving this window > a bit to the left and that one to desktop two instead of four. I don't > get bored with a theme and spend 45 minutes looking for a new one. " > > But seemingly the author ended up using wmii too :) > > Give it a try > > Cheers, > > Pau > > 2007/2/22, Lutz Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:52:52 -0700, "Ringo Kamens" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I am thinking about trying out other window systems aside from gnome. > > > > That's a good idea. Be prepared that not all applications are > > integrated as good with an alternative window manager than they are > > with Gnome or KDE. For example, you won't find the automatic update > > notifier with Fluxbox. > > > > > What did you find? Is it faster? > > > > Almost every window manager is faster than Gnome or KDE which are not > > only window managers but desktop environments integrating many features. > > The best thing with using only a small and fast window manager is that > > you can customize it as you wish. I can especially recommend IceWM ( > > http://www.icewm.org/) which can be used exclusively with the keyboard. > > > > Just give Fluxbox or any other window manager a try, you can > > alway go back. > > > > Regards > > > > Lutz > > -- > > http://www.fastmail.fm/mail/?STKI=600622 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gNewSense-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > > > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
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