[techtalk] window manager preference?
coldfire
rolick571 at duq.edu
Fri May 18 03:33:56 EST 2001
quite honestly, that was the answer i was looking for ;P .. i know i'm
happier than a pig in mud when i have a console at my fingertips. while
i'm a windowmaker advocate, that's only when we're talking gui. i guess
the console is just closer to my heart. who knows.
abe
On Thu, 17 May 2001, psyche wrote:
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> On Thu, 17 May 2001, coldfire wrote:
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> > i was just curious what the window manager of choice is on this list :) ..
> > i'm a die hard windowmaker fan ... but i just installed enlightenment and
> > it's not that bad .. a bit resource intensive though .. same for GNOME
> > from my experiences. i think blackbox is next on my list. haven't used
> > that for a while now ..
> >
> > abe
> >
>
> Bash. :) Seriously, I usually work in console mode most of the time, and
> prefer it to X or other GUI's. When I'm in X, I usually use Gnome for a
> desktop manager, and the default Sawfish window manager, though I'm not
> quite happy with Sawfish. I used to use icewm when I had a 486 because of
> the low memory requirements. I've tried out tons of different window
> managers, but only for brief periods of time. I've usually either used
> fvwm or icewm most of the time. Mostly, of course, I'm in console, using
> bash....
>
> psyche
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