[olug] The Joys of WindoMaker

[Mike Hostetler]

I just tried iceWM over the weekend.  After a few hours working with it,
I have to say -- wow.  It's really, really cool -- configurable and
fast.  I'm not a big fan of the Start-button type-interface, so I am
making buttons.  It's great that I can just do that.

Mike

On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 03:33, Eric Pierce wrote:
> I used WindowMaker for my 'introductory' year into
> Linux.  It's fantastic and the newer versions (=>0.80)
> never crashed once on me.
> 
> Just out of curiousity though I tried out IceWM a few
> months back, and I must say I like it a bit better
> than WMaker for my 333Mhz laptop.
> Here's a few cool things.
> 1.  Smaller memory footprint (about 2~3 MB smaller
> than Wmaker)
> 2.  Anti-aliased text support in menus/title bars/etc.
> 3.  Starts up noticably quicker than WMaker (again
> 333Mhz, etc.)
> 4.  Arguably better theme support - Here's a goodie
> (http://themes.freshmeat.net/screenshots/27711/)
> 5.  Keybinding support is at least as good as WMakers
> (hate that mouse)
> 6.  Do you use '<crtl><alt>L/R arrows' to switch
> workspaces?  You don't?  Er... anyway you can
> '<crtl><alt><shift>L/R arrows' to easily move apps to
> different workspaces.  Does WMaker have this
> keybinding?
> 7.  The 'IceDock' program lets you run WMapps under
> IceWM
> 8.  Has never crashed on me
> 
> I'm not trying to start a window manager flame war
> either.  I'm just as happy as the next camper that
> there's such a fantastic variety of high quality
> window managers available under Linux... especially in
> regards to lower spec machines.
> 
> My 2 bits,
> Eric
> 
> --- Mike Hostetler <thehaas at binary.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:01:02PM -0500, Quinn
> > Coldiron wrote:
> > > Not to start a desktop war, but actually, my
> > favorite is Windowmaker,
> > > then XFCE is a close second.  Something about
> > Windowmaker just keeps me
> > > coming back.  It's clean, fast and elegant.  I
> > installed Ximian to get
> > > the sweet icons and pixmaps.  A bit of a pig just
> > for icons I guess :-) 
> > 
> > I just recently went back to WindowMaker after about
> > a year in Ximian/GNOME
> > world.  It's a great setup (for me, at least) and is
> > not a hog in memory
> > like GNOME is.  Just I still have GNOME libs
> > installed to run Evolution and a
> > few other GNOME apps that I like.
> > 
> > But, since I last used WindowMaker, they seemed to
> > have taken away the
> > WMPrefs app.  What is now the "official" WM
> > configuration program
> > (besides "vi on the config files =)? 
> > 
> > > Now that I have the /usr/share/pixmaps directory
> > and subs burned to a
> > > CDROM I don't need it anymore...
> > 
> > That's a really, really good idea . . . .
> > 
> > -- mikeh
> >  
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Mike Hostetler          
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