Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro

[Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>]

On Sat, 31 May 2014 08:51:13 -0400
Tony Baldwin <tony@tonybaldwin.info> wrote:

> Sawfish and openbox, even metacity would fit in this last "just
> manages windows" category, and, in fact, don't even include a panel,
> which I think JWM has by default. 

You're just the person I need to talk to, Tony. Right now I've switched
over from Xfce to Openbox, and like it. Except for one thing: the fonts
look a whole lot worse on Openbox, and I have very bad vision, so this
isn't aesthetics: It affects the speed at which I work. Do you know of
a way to make fonts on Openbox look like the ones on Xfce?

Now, about Sawfish...

I just tried Sawfish last night, and was unable to get past the black
screen. Left click, right click, middle click did nothing. I tried
various keys, they did nothing. I think once I can configure the thing
with hotkeys, I can own it, but I can't even get that far. How do you
begin operating Sawfish?

Thanks,

SteveT

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