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I like Floating Penguins, Key Bindings.Shortcut menus. Styles. Speed. Ram Usage <conky shows firefox open ram usage on Desktop 1>. Cpu usage.Tiling Windows feature. Ease of configuration. On my Icewm Window Manager.
I vastly prefer OpenBox's keybindings to Fluxbox's. My impression was always that FluxBox is designed more for people who use the mouse heavily (and no other pointing device other than an actual mouse, at that), while OpenBox was more for people who use the keyboard heavily.
Heh. I picked up OpenBox for my desktop on this post, and I've found I use the mouse just as much (quite a bit). When I'm at my desk I don't use the keyboard much to drive my WM outside of Alt+Tab. Even then, shading (mouse wheel up on the title) or moving the window to the bottom of the stack (middle click the title) gets me there, too. Can't say I've ever used another workspace unless by accident, in either case.
One thing that I like about either (OpenBox/Fluxbox) is the (Dock/Slit) because I can park gkrellm and my tray apps in it and set it to auto-hide. They're both easy to setup and add things to. Though, I don't yet know how to make my own OB theme, but it can't be too hard.
I vastly prefer OpenBox's keybindings to Fluxbox's. My impression was always that FluxBox is designed more for people who use the mouse heavily (and no other pointing device other than an actual mouse, at that), while OpenBox was more for people who use the keyboard heavily.
Can you give me an example of how OpenBox's keybindings are better than FluxBox's?
Can you give me an example of how OpenBox's keybindings are better than FluxBox's?
Thanks for asking this. I actually formed my opinion over a decade ago, and it's quite possible that I should give Fluxbox another try.
My impression is that I liked OpenBox's workspace hotkeys (switch workspace, move window to workspace, etc) better, but the current Fluxbox manpage has them as being (now?) almost the same as OpenBox's.
I love those slightly blackened (just olive oil and seasalt last I did! My post was[sarcastic][/sarcastic] in case anyone missed that. Spice of life! )
I'm giving Gnome a try for the first time in a while and I still dislike it. Likely back to Xfce (tho I may try this
Can you give me an example of how OpenBox's keybindings are better than FluxBox's?
most keybinds can be configured the same way in both *boxes, but openbox has some nifty functionality for resizing & moving windows, effectively being able to do rudimentary manual tiling with the keyboard.
i haven't found that in fluxbox?
i'm not being a fanboi here, just trying to find out.
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The first DE I ever used would have been gnome, but I switched to KDE because (at least back then anyways) gnome kept crashing on me. Personally I think KDE has better bundled software than gnome ever has. And have used KDE ever since, but it is a matter of taste.
most keybinds can be configured the same way in both *boxes, but openbox has some nifty functionality for resizing & moving windows, effectively being able to do rudimentary manual tiling with the keyboard.
i haven't found that in fluxbox?
i'm not being a fanboi here, just trying to find out.
Doesn't sound like a fanboi response to me. I guess I'd have to explore OpenBox's keybindings. At the moment I do have a couple keybindings with Fluxbox that use wmctrl.
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