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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. I've |
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> already emerged them, but I'd like to have them available as separate |
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> sessions when I log in, and possibly migrate to one of them as default (or |
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> only) session available. |
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> I've only used KDE and Gnome in the past, and they are very polished, at |
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> least in the aspect that they automatically are added as alternative |
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> sessions. I know we have some alternative window manager users around, so |
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> I figured this would be the best place to ask how to set these alternative |
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> window managers up in Gentoo. |
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> I have a couple of boxen, one that uses gdm and one that uses kdm. It |
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> would be nice if the instructions were portable between both of these X |
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> login managers, but I'm fairly confident that I can use instructions for |
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> either one to set up the other. |
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> For anyone interested in what WMs I'm trying out: |
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> x11-wm/ratpoison |
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> x11-wm/ion3 |
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> x11-wm/wmii |
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> I also might try out StumpWM at some point, but I couldn't find an ebuild |
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> for it in the current portage tree. |
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> I'm a big fan of both Lisp and GNU-Screen, so these window managers |
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> intrigued me. |
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I wound up in the same kind of mood as you and in my searching any |
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playing I have settled on WindowMaker for some time now, and currently |
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plan to stay. |
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A bit different in approach and that is what caught my attention. |
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http://www.windowmaker.org/ |
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