Manoj Srivastava wrote:
ManojOn Tue, Jul 28 2009, AG wrote:Care to elaborate on that, John? This is a serious question - I used to use Xfce back in the days of Slackware 8.1, but that was still a WM (or was that a DE?). Are you referring to those FWM-like systems, or something entirely different?I use fvwm. This allows far more control: for example, see here for window decorations: http://www.twobarleycorns.net/fvwm-decors.html Here is a mac osxy look and feel using fvwm: http://www.guistyles.com/wp-gallery/fvwmmilk2ny.jpg A bit snow blindingly white, but it has decent aesthetics. Here are some screen shots: http://fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/ Here is where you see a tutorial to create bouncing docks, all by yourself: http://www.zensites.net/fvwm/guide/advanced_buttons.html Here is a tutorial: http://www.zensites.net/fvwm/guide/index.html You get to create gestures, and bind them to keys, and with fvwm-themes it is themable, it can be extended, and you can use perl functions to add to fvwm. All in all, I would say while heavy customization takes time, you can rarely get this level of control elsewhere. manoj That's a really impressive set of eye candy actually. I like the look of it. In the past, looking at FVWM it has appeared grey and "clunky" in its unaltered state and I guess that I just backed away from fiddling with all of the configurations. Same reason I have tended not to go beyond dipping my toe in fluxbox/ blackbox waters. But, from the pics you have shown it looks like it might be worth playing with in the background on a slow work/ study day because the configurations don't appear too taxing if approached methodically. Thank you for that. Certainly worth taking a more sympathetic and closer look than I have hitherto done. Cheers AG |