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Lars Gustäbel wrote: |
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On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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I would like to hear from others what experiences they made with |
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what windowmanagers. |
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Hi! |
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I've been using fvwm2 (http://fvwm.org) for years now and am quite happy with |
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it. Although it may look old and strange at first (the default settings are |
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rather horrible IIRC), it is possible to configure every tiny detail of it |
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using config files. I am still sometimes amazed of what you can do with it. |
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The fvwm manpage has everything you need to know. |
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The complexity is also its main drawback: it took me several weeks to have |
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it the way I wanted it. fvwm is indeed rather complicated at first but that's |
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why it's so powerful. It is really flexible and you can still use all the |
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little gui tools out there from other window managers. One cool feature of fvwm |
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is that you can assign different window styles based on the application, e.g. I |
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have a graphical system monitor on my third desktop, that is started when I log |
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in via .xinitrc and always stays on bottom, never gets the focus and does not |
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appear in the window list or on the task bar, so it does not interfere with the |
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rest of the system at all. |
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Before using fvwm2 I used KDE which had too much stuff I didn't really need. |
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(However, I am still using the KDE kicker panel with fvwm, which I think is |
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quite funny.) When I looked for a new window manager I tried fluxbox for a few |
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days, but it did not convince me. Then I tried fvwm and stayed with it. |
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Regards, |
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Vote #2 for FVWM.
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It does nothing (or at least, an absolute minimum) by default |
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you can configure it to be just about whatever you want |
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man pages explicitly say it can be used mouse-less, and I'm like |
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you: I grew up with old, command-line systems and am still more |
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comfortable with that :-P so I've configured most mouse bindings to |
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keys as well |
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Support for extras via FVWM Modules, so that the core system |
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itself stays small. If you want to add a desktop pager, add the |
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FVWMPager module. If you want a taskbar, add the FVWMTaskBar module. |
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Even a popup banner at startup with FVWMBanner, if you're in to that |
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sort of thing.. :-P |
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However, as previous poster pointed out, all this configurability |
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is also a bit of a drawback, in that there are a LOT of configuration |
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items to trawl through to find what you want. But most things I've |
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wanted to do I've been able to find an example of on the FVWM forums, |
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which are quite helpful.
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From what I've read, you can also use FVWM-Themes to try and get |
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a jump start with some possible configs, but I've never used them, so I |
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can't comment on their worth or helpfulness
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HTH
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John Moe
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