[ILUG] Windowmanagers...

[Justin Mason]

>  I think happiness with your windowmanager is just behind your editor as
> the singlemost important application you run these days. You work faster
> while working in a pretty environment. You work faster when you can set
> things up to work they way you like it.

Agreed -- my wm is one of the key speed-ups I use (along with vim and
readline's vi-mode).

>  People, try Enlightenment 0.15.5. You will not be disappointed. It kicks
> ass.

Does it support binding keys to move/iconify/deiconify windows, like fvwm
does?  I'm still using fvwm95 (call me sick but I like the look'n'feel).
It lets me bind keypresses to all sorts of crap -- including moving
windows about, which other wms don't seem to support, for some reason!
If you're using fvwm2 or fvwm95, try these out:

  # Ctrl-left: move window into left half of screen.
  # Ctrl-right: move window into right half of screen.
  Mouse 1         WFST    C       Move 2p 2p
  Mouse 3         WFST    C       Move 625p 2p

  AddToFunc "FocusAndDeiconify"   "I" Next [$0] Iconify -1
  +                               "I" Next [$0] Focus
  +                               "I" Next [$0] CursorMove 5 5

  # F9: bring up mail
  # F10: bring up a netscape
  Key F9          A       N       FocusAndDeiconify exmh
  Key F10         A       N       FocusAndDeiconify Netscape:*

  # bind Mode_switch to one of the "WinKeys" using xmodmap
  # Mode_switch: iconify window under cursor
  Key Mode_switch A       N       Iconify

The last one is pretty generic, but the other 4 kick ass and I haven't
seen an easy way to do them with other wms.  The amount of mouse-twiddling
I save with those top two is just astonishing!

If E can support this kind of stuff I'll switch; I've been meaning to get
a new wm for a long time, and I really do have a lot of CPU power here
that's just going to waste ;)

--j.