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I have been trying out KDE 4.2 for the last couple of days. So far I am very impressed.
The oxygen widgets look good & generally the desktop looks very pretty even without Compiz (which i don't have enabled anyway). IMO it's a huge improvement over 3.x (and the early 4.0 releases). The Dolphin FM is also nice & so too is the default Wallpaper. Three cheers for the KDE team. |
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I've been trying out different tiling WMs. for now I'm sticking with wmii. the status bar is really neat. I'm thinking about trying dwm again but I kind of hate that all the configuration has to be done before compiling. I like binary packages!
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Editing the header file and compiling takes what... a second or two? dwm is a fast, light, managed tiling (optional floating, "maximized" single window) manager. In FreeBSD ports too. It's the only wm which has stood the test of time on my "desktop". |
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I am a longtime Fluxbox user, but lately I have been messing with PekWM and I am happy with it.
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DWM is so small, the only way it can take a long time is if you're still using a Pentium 66Mhz. It actually takes longer to read the source code then it does to download and compile.
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After some time with pekwm i switched to openbox, pekwm does not 'alt-tab' windows in the way I like:
http://pekwm.org/projects/pekwm/tasks/210
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I just discovered the joys of cwm(1). I seldom use X, so I'm still tweaking it to my tastes, but I like what I see so far. I like that it is in the base system. My quest for minimalism continues!
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I've used quite a few different window managers in the past, but so far fluxbox is still my primary choice.
I just wished they made releases more often, having to "track git" is just such an annoying trait from the Linux-oriented community. Not entirely convinced the minimalism offered by cwm(1) is good for my tastes, it's a grey area.. I don't like fancy desktop environments, but a window manager should have a little something to grab onto. |
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Diffrences between PEKWM/FLUXBOX/OPENBOX
WINDOW SWITCHING BEHAVIOUR
Proper 'ALT-TAB' behaviour is only available on fluxbox and openbox, pekwm lacks a lot here, check this for more information: http://pekwm.org/projects/pekwm/tasks/210WORKSPACE MENU The so-called workspace menu in fluxbox expands into submenu for each workspace, which makes its useless for generall usage.PROPER ICON RENDERRING Both pekwm/fluxbox cannot render application icons properly, while openbox can, fluxbox renders properly icons in the root menu, but only if you select exact size for the icon (same as actual image size), if image is bigger, its scaled version would be ugly.WORKING AREA At both openbox/pekwm we can set margins for the workspace, the space on the sides which will NOT be used for windows, to achieve the same on fluxbox, you can only use dome dockapp with displaying transparent PNG file (dirty hack) with do not maximize over slit option.ACTIONS ON WINDOW BAR/BORDER At pekwm/openbox we can define various actions that will happen when clicking/scrolling the window border/bar, some custom commands (like transparency increasing/decresing with transset-df), fluxbox can offer thatSTANDARDS Both pekwm/fluxbox are NOT fully compilant with NETWM/EMWH while openbox is (but I never suffered from the fact that they arent fully compilant).LANGUAGE (as curiosity) Both pekwm/fluxbox are written in C++ while openbox is written in C, which make it little faster, but its propably hard to notice this on Core 2 Duo class machines these days.OTHER Both pekwm/fluxbox support tabs, but I do not remember when I last used themCOMMAND SUBSHELL If you put something like that into fluxbox root menu... my thoughts on differences between these 3 WMs.
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There are licencing concerns as well, for those concerned anyway.. both openbox and pekwm are GPL.
fluxbox uses the MIT license.. just like it's predecessor, blackbox. |
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I'm still getting used to cwm, but I've found it to be just as functional as fluxbox, which I used until OpenBSD 4.6 was released. Out of curiosity, can you elaborate a little on what you mean by "grab onto?"
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I've used cwm(1), it's not that bad.. but I've been spoilt by window managers that offer fancy window decorations around the edges.
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During the early era of this thread, I spent a few weeks trying out a great many of the WMs that people were mentioning. Through it, I ended up sticking with fluxbox, but it was far from a wasted effort. The process caused me totally re-think, re-evaluate and re-configure all aspects of my fluxbox setup, adopting various new ideas and resulting in something better suited to my usage. A very useful thread!
For example, I now have no decorations around the windows except the handle at the top. Resizing is done with Meta-Mouse2. The two WMs I found most likely substitutes were pekwm and openbox. But pekwm-0.1.11 didn't seem to have AutoRaise which was a show-stopper. Openbox seemed so close to fluxbox it hardly seemed worth switching (though I could look at it more sometime); as for speed fluxbox feels plenty fast on my old box (500 MHz). |
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