anyone use any cool window managers!
not kde or gnome, they are boring
my laptop uses evilwm which is awsome and super minimalistic and the whole program is like 30k. it doesnt even have window decorations, only a 1 pixel border.
my desktop uses xfce 4.2, which is nice too, but not as cool as evilwm. its a little like gnome lite, uses gtk themes and everything.
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Anonymous2005-02-28 1:40
fluxbox for minimal, enlightenment for fullblown
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Anonymous2005-02-28 7:45
I still have a soft spot for fvwm95.
I've heard that ninewm is lightweight and quick, but I've never tried it.
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Anonymous2005-02-28 19:54
Wow only 30k? Damn, that really matters when I have 512mb of ram. Anywho, if I had to choose something other than KDE it would be xfce.
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Anonymous2005-02-28 21:28 (sage)
Windowmaker, openbox, fluxbox.
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Anonymous2005-02-28 23:26
>>4 obviously you've never tried using any memory intesnsive applications. many of us program, use mozilla, write pages with quantas and serve web pages. The memory saved by using a small, 30k window manager is quickly used up by a more productive application.
Of course, those of you who prefer eye-candy such as KDE over running applications would probably never get what I'm talking about.
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Anonymous2005-02-28 23:32
I used to run Blackbox (back before Fluxbox even existed), but now I just stick to Gnome.
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Anonymous2005-03-01 12:03
>>6
Yeah, I've used all of those. Infact, I've ran OO, Kdevelope, mozilla, azureus, and juk at the same time and didn't notice a thing. Memory is cheap right now if you know where to look.
DOS will leave more free memory for you to run applications. And screw DOS too, all you need is to make bootable applications and take your full RAM for useful stuff.
Of course, I'm not defending bloatware, but you always need services and a decent desktop, and you don't want your 21th century computer looking like CP/M.
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Anonymous2005-03-01 17:35
>>9 of course, it's a trade-off. However, >>4 was poo-pooing having a 30k WM since you could have 'so much' ram; and my point is that memory is _always_ scarce and that if you can have a low-footprint enviroment (while still being functional, of course) then so much the better.
Of course I, like dmr, use an NT-based system, so sometimes one does want the eye-candy.
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Anonymous2005-03-01 17:55
>>7
i still run blackbox on bsd...
but now that i think about it, i should just remove x entirely.. no real use for it on that machine
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Anonymous2005-03-01 20:48
>>10
Well, I didn't say anything was wrong with it, but when you call KDE and Gnome bloatware like some, it's just stupid.
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Anonymous2005-03-02 5:52
KDE and Gnome are huge. Call call them useful or call them bloatware. Won't change reality.
30k though... not even window decorations? That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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Anonymous2005-03-02 9:56
KDE at least makes the X environment bearable and somewhat useful. For example, it provides one of the first decent editors ever seen in Unix.
Without KDE X is just a bizarre collection of absolutely different, absolutely incompatible and unintegrated applications, mostly a hundred years old, and not even the clipboard will work half decently.
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Anonymous2005-03-02 13:37
lol people not knowing the difference between a desktop environment (KDE, GNOME/Nautilus), and a window manager (sawfish, fluxbox, etc.) Changing the WM , yet still running the desktop, isn't going to get you anything like you want.
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Calm down, learn what spam is. Following me around complaining about spam is far more off topic than mentioning xfce in a thread about window managers am i rite.
Just like textures are called textures because at first the only thing you'd dream of doing is adding a tiny tiled bitmap to represent more or less of a texture (which is done in a much advanced way today with bump mapping), but later they started calling anything that's painted on a polygon a "texture", even though it may define color, dirt, reflection, etc. Spam now means any random crap (typically short an offtopic) posted to a message board, not only unsolicited commercial advertisement.
All your utterly inane comments just drag down the S/N ratio in the forum. How about a little meat to your comments? "xfce4lyfe" is what a 13-year-old would write - a pathetic attempt at humor and devoid of meaning.
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Anonymous2005-03-15 0:26
oh shut the fuck up allof u
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Anonymous2005-03-15 2:16
I just use Gnome.... Pretty basic... Gets the job done for me.
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Anonymous2005-03-15 3:13
i used to use pekwm and the evilwm-p theme which i found awesome. after reading some osnews article about fvwm i took a liking in it and switched, redoing the evilwm theme of course =O
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Christy McJesus!DcbLlAZi7U2005-03-15 6:12
>>22
Because obviously your aspie whining isn't noise.
I didn't come here for drama, leave me out of it.