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I suppose to make this thread complete I'll be the first (maybe only?) one |
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to voice support for good old WindowMaker. I think the biggest reason I |
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still use it is that I'm just stuck in a rut, I have been running it for |
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ages and have never wanted anything better. It's definitely light weight |
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enough to suit most needs for people who have that desire, theming exists, |
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but no actual skinning support. It's a bit boxier than most so for eyecandy, |
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it's not stellar, but has a simple clean feel to it. |
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I think my favorite feature is the dockapps (check |
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http://www.bensinclair.com/dockapp/ for examples), which I know are clearly |
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portable, but integrate most cleanly into WindowMaker. These can provide |
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that desired eyecandy, such as wmBlob, or simple controls to your favorite |
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programs, like wmXMMS. With adjustable icon width, these can take up almost |
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no space around your edges leaving plenty of real estate for your web |
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browsers and such. Better still, they don't even have to be reserved space, |
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they can just fade into the background. One extra bonus to XFCE users is |
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WindowMaker works fairly well with that on top, not that I use it, but I've |
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known a few people who do because they like the added functionality. |
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I'm sure none of my reasons justify WindowMaker as the best choice for my |
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desires, but like I said, I'm in a rut, and it's quite comfortable. Maybe |
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when the bedsores start popping up I'll come back to this thread... |
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Wade Brown |
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On 9/2/05, Matthias Bethke <Matthias.Bethke@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Hi Matt, |
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> on Wednesday, 2005-08-31 at 17:28:21, you wrote: |
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> > Anyway, I was just hoping to start a "pub"-style conversation on |
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> > what people like/disklike in a window manager. |
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> It's been XFCE here for a while. When I ran NetBSD years ago, nothing |
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> but fvwm would run at decent speed (not that there had been much |
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> choice), so I used this for a while. Then it was Linux/KDE for a while |
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> on a 486, which was quite a pain. When I discovered Gnome, I liked the |
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> clean look of GTK and its speed. Version 2 annoyed me because everything |
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> got fatter and had less features than the 1.x version, but I stuck with |
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> it out of inertia, it was well configured and all... |
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> XFCE is for me what Gnome used to be: slim and fast, a clean look and |
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> just as many knobs to tweak as I need but no more. |
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> Now, WMII looks interesting as well. Unlikely I'm going to switch but |
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> I'll have a look at it. |
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> cheers! |
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> Matthias |
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