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Re: Window managers-which one?



On (31/10/06 13:19), Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from
> > KDE to Xfce to Enlightenment to Fluxbox.  I'm very happy now but guess I
> > may get bored and try something else but fluxbox is lean mean but pretty
> > functional.
> 
> I went pretty much the same way, but then one day I thought fluxbox was
> kind of slow to draw menus etc... And I found openbox! It's fast, looks
> just like fluxbox, except that it doesn't have the extra fluff. :-)
> You may want to give it a try.

Well another convert :)  openbox is almost as functional but without the
extra 'fluff'  as you say.  It also seems more predictable in terms of
behaviour.  fluxbox used to do some strange things when trying to
'stick' gkrellm to every workspace.

Thanks

Clive

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