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On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 01:37:45PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:40 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > Hi, |
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> > for a long time I used IceWM as my windowmanager since I dont |
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> > want to mimicry other OSses (...) or want session management. |
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> > One thing, which is a must-have of windowmanagers I want to use |
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> > is the possibility to control the windowmanager nearly completly |
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> > with the keyboard (hotkeys configurable) which does *not* |
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> > imply "uncontrollable by mouse" ;) |
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> > Furthermore I should not be a hana-bi or anything else eye-candy |
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> > like (nothing against hana-bi as hana-bi!) -- most of the time |
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> > I will use the windowmanager instead of only looking at it -- which |
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> > does not imply: "black anmd white ugly ascii thingy". |
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> > |
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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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> > |
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> > Thank you very much in advance for any help! |
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> > Best regards and have a nice weekend! |
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> > Meino Cramer |
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> try Openbox, tiny but modern |
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Another vote for Openbox. Good little wm. If you want a panel for it, |
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I'd suggest fbpanel. |
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