Re: window manager recomendation
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 03:51:10 +0200
Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for
> recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none seem
> to fit the bill yet.
> I need a window manager with the following
> - As lite as possible on memory (I heavily stress my laptop so I don't
> have much to spare).
> - Multiple desktops
> - A pop up menu application (don't need a panel) that has support for
> both the debian menus and a custom menu.
> - Hotkeys (mainly for maximize/minimize/desktop switch)
> - multiple desktops
>
> I tried metacity but it didn't seem to have a menu (probably depends on
> gnome which is too memory intensive).
> I mostly use flwm now (After I hacked it to add a maximize button and
> fix the hotkeys). It is just about what I need. The two problems I have
> with it is that it occasionally crashes on me and the hotkeys are
> sometimes grabbed by the applications before the window manager (mostly
> mozilla-firebird), and I don't have the time to debug it now.
>
> Thanx.
>
Icewm.
Regards,
David.
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