I tried the sawfish window manager again the other day. the window decorations are not particularly appealing. i used to use it several years ago and back then was disappointed when metacity took over in gnome. it was the start of gnome going in the wrong direction for me to continue using it. i've uninstalled it, and deleted the src code.
I tried the enlightenment window manager the other day. version 16, or e16 as it's known. i kinda liked it, but it disliked the fact i already set the window background within my .xsession file using the fbsetbg command. i've uninstalled it and deleted the src code, though i might come back to it. I tried the enlightenment window manager the other day. version 17, or e17 as it's known. i mostly disliked it. the mouse pointer was horrible, had fluffy definition, bouncy, shiny. the menus had fluffy definition, bouncy, shiny, enough of a barely noticeable lag to be noticeably irritatingly laggy. the only thing i liked, was when image thumbnails were generated in the file manager, they wobbled and bounced and this amused me. Version 16 of the enlightenment window manager appealed more, the theme was less bling bling. I tried the dwm window manager the other day. it doesn't stack windows but tiles them - it's a tiling window manager, NOT a stacking window manager. it has no window decorations - no buttons to click to close/maximize/iconify. i've not got the hang of it, but could do if i wished, but it's not really what i want. anyway, enough waffle. http://jwm-art.net/art/image/struct.png see the 3d pyramid structure? what does it evoke? what mental/emotional responses (if any) do you have to it? look at the left panel: htop* running in an eterm*. the devilspie* (devil's pie) program. when my user logs in, X* looks in the ~/.xsession file, which tells it to start devilspie, eterm running htop, then fluxbox*. the eterm is started with specific options which enable devilspie to recognise it and tell the window manager (fluxbox) not to do this, do that, and treat it this way. htop* an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. Tested with Linux 2.4 and 2.6. http://htop.sourceforge.net/ eterm* a color vt102 terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm. It is designed with a Freedom of Choice philosophy, leaving as much power, flexibility, and freedom as possible in the hands of the user. http://www.eterm.org/ devilspie* A window-matching utility, inspired by Sawfish's "Matched Windows" option and the lack of the functionality in Metacity. Metacity lacking window matching is not a bad thing Metacity is a lean window manager, and window matching does not have to be a window manager task. http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie X* provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done in conjunction with the freedesktop.org community. The X.Org Foundation is the educational non-profit corporation whose Board serves this effort, and whose Members lead this work. http://www.x.org/wiki/ fluxbox* is a windowmanager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, and extremely fast, desktop experience. It is built using C++ and licensed under the MIT-License http://www.fluxbox.org/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
