Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

[Bob Sanders]

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:40:08 +0800
Qiangning Hong <hongqn@×××××.com> wrote:

> Bob Sanders wrote:
> > enlightenment E16.  After messing with KDE, Gnome, Openbox, fluxbox,
> > flirting with XCFE and a few others, I came back to Enlightenment.
>
> As an XFCE user currently, I'm curious about what make you guys leave
> XFCE for other lightweight WMs?
>

The feel and I run at 1600x1024 with Eterm as my main term.  I like the way the menu
system works.  I like the ease of setting up my own background - especially without
a lot of menu crawling.  I like the seperate pager and Windows Overview of E.  On a
laptop, E makes it real easy to have multiple desktops with apps running, easy to get to.

But it does come down to personal preferences.  And I've used a lot of window managers.
Perhaps more than most -- original microVAX/VMS win, then X (the very firstl),
GEM on AtariST, Amiga's WM, NeXt, Sun, BeOS, Win 3.1/95/98/NT/2K/XP, ripped off
the wm in Win98 and put Litestep on, used CDE (had to test it, yuk!), 4DWM (Irix, about the
only one I've been able to stand the icons on).

It's like editors, use enough of them, and they all feel a bit familar, but you end up coming
back to one or two for all your daily activity because of the feel.  And I'm no longer any
good at any editor - used too many in the past, way too many.  Email programs as well,
I miss RSTS/E email.  That was one sweet program.  But it too got too "safe" when they
productized it.

Bob
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