On Tuesday 04 April 2006 16:32, Declan Moriarty wrote:
| I am requesting, WITHOUT long testemonials or expressions of loyalty,
| bias or affection your suggestions for a window manager for the
| following environment:
|Possibly just due to sheer inertia, I've been using fvwm for the last 10-11
years and haven't really been tempted by any of the whizzy new fangled ones
that have crossed my path...
| 1. No gnome or kde (or bits of them) present.
I think it can be compiled to know about them, but it doesn't need them.
| 2. Keystroke operation preferred fo such things as switching
| windows, starting applications, etc.
Can be done.
| 3. Easily configurable.
Ah. Easy is a relative term, it's not particularly pointy clicky to configure,
generally it's a matter of opening two windows, one with the config file and
the other with the man page.
| 4. Compiles from source without needing a dozen dependencies
Yup.
| 5. Preferably has some menu system - not 100% reliant on
| typing into xterms
Yup. Although it's largely up to you to configure that menu, the integration
with things like KDE and Gnome (for installed applications) is more than a
little hit and miss.
Paul
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