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FVWM2, I like to run without a desktop to accumulate clutter. At start the only thing I have loaded is the wallpaper. Everything is bound to keystrokes, menus, and gestures. It's great because you can literally tailor everything to how you want the environment to work. Unfortunately it does take a while to get it there, especially if you start with the .fvwm2rc that comes with Slack.
Ice still rocks but looks a bit 'bald' without icons, so you have to mess with them and I got sick of messing with them. Some other issues, such as suspecting it in a stability problem though it turns out to probably not be ice's fault. Still, it got me to roaming again and I wound up back at pek after trying it briefly once before. Nice to have the tabbed windows like flux's (and others) again, and keychains out the wazoo and so on. Very little 'looks' tweaking necessary and lots of 'functionality' tweaking. Nice.
I'm getting tired and annoyed of the whole GUI thing, though. Been spending some time in text mode, lately. bash, vim, mc, w3m. All good but I never have bothered with any MUA but mozilla -mail and haven't rigged up my console browsers with all my site information and so on. Pretty much addicted to mozilla, and thus the GUI.
BTW, Mephisto - I passed through fvwm2 again on this trip and configuring that thing about made my head explode. Waaay too complicated for a window manager, but nice if you want it.
Originally posted by digiot
BTW, Mephisto - I passed through fvwm2 again on this trip and configuring that thing about made my head explode. Waaay too complicated for a window manager, but nice if you want it.
It takes a lot of work to get right, that's for sure. I spent the better part of 16 hours over the last 2 weeks tweaking it for my main system. But when you get it right... It is right, not just good enough. Sort of like Slackware if you ask me. (Though I recommend getting 2.5.10 from slackpackages.net, I did this afternoon and there are some really useful extra functions.) I don't think there is a more configurable WM out there.
What's a couple of days tweaking for a desktop you will use for at least a year?
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