window managers
Anything in debian-testing for PowerPC that:
1. has virtual desktops or workspaces that cooperate with GNOME
2. can drag from one desktop/workspace to another via the pager
3. can do focus-follows-mouse (or lazy) w/o autoraise
4. in click-to-focus mode, pasting into a window sets focus
5. if it provides minimize buttons, they work with GNOME
6. provides a menu button for less-used window operations
7. can set basic options via GUI or _simple_ config file
8. business-like: fast, easy-to-read fonts, reliable, etc.
9. puts an entry for itself in the GNOME control center
a. doesn't place windows on top of the GNOME task bar
b. lets me move a window partly off the left side of the screen
????
Right now I'm running icewm-gnome. It seems to have overridden
my choice of 4x2 virtual desktops, doesn't set focus when I
paste, doesn't let me drag between desktops, and doesn't have
an obvious way to configure it.
I'd been running metacity with a moderate amount of hatred,
but that just got uninstalled due to some gconf conflict in
debian-testing. Metacity had a nice tempting minimize button
that would hide a window... but not create a taskbar button
to restore it!
Oroborus doesn't make an entry in the GNOME control center.
I added an entry, but it didn't survive a restart.
Etc.
bonus points for a solution that lets my wife use the
computer without disturbing my desktop
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