Bug#551123: ITP: echinus -- lightweight tiling window manager
2009/10/16, Daniel Moerner <dmoerner@gmail.com>:
> On 10/16/2009 12:25 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> Great idea. I think we don’t have enough window managers in the archive.
>>
>
> I think that at least in this case, this window manager is unique enough
> to justify inclusion. There are surely many tiling window managers,
> which fall into groupable categories (StumpWM/Ratpoison, XMonad,
> dwm/awesome). Julien has done a great job developing awesome, and it
> probably deserves its own category separate from dwm. Echinus falls into
> the final category it seems, being similar to dwm. And it offers a clear
> advantage: configuration via .Xresources (does any other WM support
> this?) rather than via recompilation. I think this gives sufficient
> reason for inclusion.
Speaking of differences from dwm I can name some:
* Xft
* more layouts
* titlebars with buttons
* layout-per-tag
* EWMH
* no bar
* Xrandr, not Xinerama
* no extra dependencies (awesome has 27 dependencies)
Well, I don't really care much to start debating, just read somewhere
on debian.org that you can package any software which is free. No
means no, sorry for the noise. Keep up the good work.
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