[olug] The Joys of WindoMaker

[Quinn Coldiron]

I'll have to give it a try.  I'm also not a big fan of the "start"
button style window managers.  I like WindowMaker because it fits the
way I like to work.  It's nice just dropping images into a directory for
the backgrounds, etc. and having them show up in the menu.  The ability
to make a program or script and have it run as a menu is cool to.

Actually, I'm very excited about the version of Enlightenment that's in
CVS.  I wish they'd get a version of it packaged.  I don't have time to
compile all that crap to get it working, but I really like the looks of
the screenshots.  E is pretty fun to play with...

Quinn


On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 07:18, Mike Hostetler wrote:
> 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 (=3D>0.80)
> > never crashed once on me.
> >=20
> > 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
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > My 2 bits,
> > Eric
> >=20
> > --- 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 :-)=20
> > >=20
> > > 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.
> > >=20
> > > 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 =3D)?=20
> > >=20
> > > > Now that I have the /usr/share/pixmaps directory
> > > and subs burned to a
> > > > CDROM I don't need it anymore...
> > >=20
> > > That's a really, really good idea . . . .
> > >=20
> > > -- mikeh
> > > =20
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Quinn P. Coldiron
Cerner Technical Coordinator
Nebraska Methodist Hospital
402-354-1619
qcoldir at nmhs.org