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From: Matthias Krebs <matthias.krebs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: meino.cramer@×××.de
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:38:42
Message-Id: 200909122037.30450.mathias.krebs@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 > Hi,
2 >
3 > for a long time I used IceWM as my windowmanager since I dont
4 > want to mimicry other OSses (...) or want session management.
5 > One thing, which is a must-have of windowmanagers I want to use
6 > is the possibility to control the windowmanager nearly completly
7 > with the keyboard (hotkeys configurable) which does *not*
8 > imply "uncontrollable by mouse" ;)
9 > Furthermore I should not be a hana-bi or anything else eye-candy
10 > like (nothing against hana-bi as hana-bi!) -- most of the time
11 > I will use the windowmanager instead of only looking at it -- which
12 > does not imply: "black anmd white ugly ascii thingy".
13 >
14 > Since IceWM seems to be gone into hibernation phase I am looking for
15 > a replacement which should
16 > -- be widely configurable via ascii files
17 > -- be as far as possible controllable by keyboard
18 > -- be also useable with the mouse
19 > -- no eye-candy
20 > -- not ugly
21 > -- NOT tiling
22 > -- FAST!
23 >
24 > I would like to hear from others what experiences they made with
25 > what windowmanagers.
26 >
27 > Thank you very much in advance for any help!
28 > Best regards and have a nice weekend!
29 > Meino Cramer
30 >
31 Hi,
32
33 i use x11-wm/openbox
34
35 a really nice guide for configuration and tweaking can be found here :
36 http://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/