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On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:15:26AM -0400, Thomas Kirchner wrote: |
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> This can be a bit daunting, though, so when I was setting it up I |
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> found a fairly good base (taviso's, I believe) and customized the |
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> heck out of it. Now it's perfect for me, and I just can't get rid |
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> of it. I've tried pretty much every other option, but only FVWM |
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> can scratch everyone's exact itch - if they're patient. |
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I did a search for "taviso" and found his fvwm2rc file: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~taviso/fvwm2rc.html |
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There's also a lot of screenshots (and even a video!) of that |
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desktop. |
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After starting this thread, I got to playing with enlightenment |
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DR16 (not ready for 17 yet). Despite being known for the eye candy, |
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it (so far) has proven itself to be a great lightweight window |
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manager. Raster (enlightenment author) wrote a simple window |
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manager benchmark program; see the results of some typical window |
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managers here: |
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http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News |
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I'd like to see some more window manager benchmarks (because I'm a |
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bit suspicious given that enlightenment had the best results in this |
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benchmark). But I ran the two tests on my machine, and my results |
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were consistent with Raster's. In fact, the two "fastest" window |
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managers I tested were enlightenment DR16 and FVWM. |
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I did play with Fvwm for a while, though. And taviso's |
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configuration pretty much proves that *anything* is possible. It |
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just takes so much work to get it looking "nice"! The Fvwm |
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development team might take offense to this, but they could probably |
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improve their "market share" if fvwm looked... different... out of |
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the box. |
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Not that market share is really important here, but it's a bit |
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ironic to see all the window managers that have been written, either |
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from scratch or as hacks on FVWM, when FVWM has been able to do |
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pretty much everything for a long time. |
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Well, now I'm thinking I need to learn X11 programming, and hack on |
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FVWM or something... another project in my infinitely-long queue of |
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started-but-not-finished projects. |
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Matt |
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Matt Garman |
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email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email |
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