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Glanz 12-26-2002 06:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sao
Glanz,

Have you ever tried fluxbox wm?
Posted some pictures of 'fluxbox' with wmaker dockets and gkrellm here:

http://homepage.mac.com/sao1/PhotoAlbum7.html


Cheers...
No, I haven't used it yet, but I'm on my way! Looks pretty impressive! I'll keep you posted. I didn't like Blackbox too much, so I've been avoiding it.

Post Scriptum & BTW:: Here's a great site for some very elegant WindowMaker Themes. I think you'll like them. http://lonelymachines.org/wm_themes.html

Well I'm back a few hours later. Thanks Sao, but I found the menu system of Fluxbox to be nearly impossible to manipulate, especially in rootless mode. It is unresponsive, does not obey mouse actions or clicks, and hardly recognizes the touch pad functions. It is therefore no good for me. I'll stick with fast, reliable, easily configurable, WindowMaker which doesn't require file editing via Pico or Joe every time I want to change a menu item, like ICEwm does.... , doesn't look like something out of the late sixties like FVWM or AfterStep, doesn't take five minutes to launch a mail app like KDE, does not depend on non-existant Gnome libraries like Xfce, is not in a state of Limbo on the development side like Enlightenment, and doesn't have an inherent glitch in each and every application like Gnome does. :p

sao 12-26-2002 11:53 PM

Quote:

Glanz wrote:
I found the menu system of Fluxbox to be nearly impossible to manipulate, especially in rootless mode
Yes, I should have told you that there is no fluxbox-rootless package, so the fluxbox menu system doesn't work in rootless. I write in my ~/.xinitrc file the starting apps. and I open others from the the command line.

I have fun working with tabs because is clean and neat and I don't have windows open everywhere.

Thanks for the wmaker themes link, that site was one of the first I downloaded themes, when I first installed wmaker.


Cheers...

Glanz 12-27-2002 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sao
Yes, I should have told you that there is no fluxbox-rootless package, so the fluxbox menu system doesn't work in rootless. I write in my ~/.xinitrc file the starting apps. and I open others from the the command line.

I have fun working with tabs because is clean and neat and I don't have windows open everywhere.

Thanks for the wmaker themes link, that site was one of the first I downloaded themes, when I first installed wmaker.


Cheers...
Once again I use Xfce in combo with FluX, but not as a "restart/change manager" command, but as an app, so to speak. That gives me Fluxbox and all the styles and themes with all I launch from the Xfce menu. The terminal isn't all that bad either. I notice that Fluxbox is instantaneous in launches!!!! Impressive!

That site for WM is Finnish, I believe. I like the art. I'll keep Fluxbox because I like minimalist managers. They really come in handy when you have to have a large number of apps open at the same time. KDE can't handle that, not even under the latest Debian on a 1.5 GHz, 80G, PC with two hard drives and maximum ram. But I really like the Konqueror File Manager.
As you stated earlier, Worker is a great FM. XFTree is too. GMC is also, but it likes to draw the desktop at launch whether asked to or not.


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