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Hi Boyd, |
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I have used ratpoison then moved to ion3. |
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I found ratpoison was really good to use but there were some |
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short-comings such as difficulty in reading a window title because I |
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was always pressing Ctrl-T,A to read the title of an xterm window |
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showing the progress of an emerge. I also found the lack of support for |
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dockable applications a problem. However, ratpoison is perfect for a |
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MythTV box. |
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I found ion3 was just as efficient as ratpoison, however, ion3 has |
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support for dockable applications, there is also the scratchpad and |
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floating workspace. There are scripts that you can use with ion3 to |
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taler ion3 to one's liking. Like for example, "detach.lua" which is |
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great because it gives you the ability to have floating screens on the |
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same screen as the paneled windows. |
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I recommend that the latest masked version of ion3 be used, as I have |
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not found any problems with these versions. I also find that although |
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the documentation is not that good with ion3, the support through the |
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mailing list is great. Post a question and you will get an answer |
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within a day. |
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Regards |
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L1th10n |
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:18 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. |
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> I've already emerged them, but I'd like to have them available as |
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> separate sessions when I log in, and possibly migrate to one of them |
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> as default (or only) session available. |
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> |
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> I've only used KDE and Gnome in the past, and they are very polished, |
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> at least in the aspect that they automatically are added as |
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> alternative sessions. I know we have some alternative window manager |
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> users around, so I figured this would be the best place to ask how to |
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> set these alternative window managers up in Gentoo. |
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> |
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> I have a couple of boxen, one that uses gdm and one that uses kdm. |
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> It would be nice if the instructions were portable between both of |
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> these X login managers, but I'm fairly confident that I can use |
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> instructions for either one to set up the other. |
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> |
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> For anyone interested in what WMs I'm trying out: |
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> x11-wm/ratpoison |
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> x11-wm/ion3 |
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> x11-wm/wmii |
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> |
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> I also might try out StumpWM at some point, but I couldn't find an |
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> ebuild for it in the current portage tree. |
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> |
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> I'm a big fan of both Lisp and GNU-Screen, so these window managers |
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> intrigued me. |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. |
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> bss03@××××××××××.com |
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> ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy |
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