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On Monday 14 September 2009, Thomas Kahle wrote: |
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> Hey, |
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> > Since IceWM seems to be gone into hibernation phase I am looking for |
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> > a replacement which should |
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> > -- be widely configurable via ascii files |
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> > -- be as far as possible controllable by keyboard |
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> > -- be also useable with the mouse |
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> > -- no eye-candy |
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> > -- not ugly |
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> > -- NOT tiling |
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> > -- FAST! |
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> > |
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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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> Many people say fluxbox here, but you should also have a look at openbox |
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> (http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Main_Page) which is very similar |
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> but seems to integrate better into freedesktop.org standards. I use |
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> openbox because it gives me the speed and configurability of fluxbux |
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> while all the automagic things (suspend-keys, volume-keys, |
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> powermanagement, plasmoids, ...) that hal and kde4 bring still work. |
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> But maybe the latest version of fluxbox also does that..? I have not |
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> checked on it for a while. |
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Hmm not sure that Fluxbox does much of that ... I understand that the way |
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Fluxbox works goes against compositing that KDE/Gnome implemented. |
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Does openbox do real transparency, or can you only see the desktop in e.g. |
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aterm? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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