Re: window managers
This question would be much better suited for debian-user, but hey, I'll
answer anyways:
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:03, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> 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
GNOME 2 + metacity should do all of that, but it will only be available
for sid for at least several weeks. When you do install it, I highly
recommend metacity-setup and metacity-themes too.
Of course, you could upgrade to sid now; it's not too unstable on
powerpc at least. Alsoyou could even help test out my GNOME 1 -> GNOME
2 transition scripts :)
> 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!
Metacity plays much nicer with GNOME 2 (I assume you're using 1.4).
Metacity only groks the new standard NETWM hints, but 1.4 has
proprietary hinting.
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