[linux-audio-user] sticky windows [may be OT]

Rick Taylor ricktaylor at speakeasy.net
Sat Oct 4 13:50:01 EDT 2003


Rocco <linuxmedia4 at netscape.net> wrote:
>"horsh" <horsh at mail.ru> wrote:

> >> So my question is:
> >> Which window manager support such "sticky"
> >> feature?
>
>ricktaylor at speakeasy.net wrote:
>
>{SNIP}
>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/fvwmpartition/
>{SNIP}
>{tho' FVWM is fairly similar and makes for a really nice
>> environment.}}}}
>
>>  I've used all of these... they all work fairly well.
>
>Unfortunatly, I've only worked with FVWM so I can't compare it to the 
>rest. But I can tell You that it's __very__ lightweight, boots up 
>__very__ quickly and uses __very__ little resources. And there's not 
>even __one__ "built in" feature that You're "stuck with". For 
>instance... in KDE (the only other Window Manager I have experience 
>with) always loads the "task bar". I'm sure if I hacked around I could 
>find a way to __not__ start up with it. But FVWM can be so stripped down 
>that there's not even a back ground color. All you see is that grey mesh 
>that You see just before (whatever window manager You're using at the 
>time) starts up. Yet it has ways of creating just about any convience 
>you want (like a task bar).

 http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/manpages/stable/

 :} Yeah... to paraphrase a popular industrial ditty...

 No doubt about it... FVWM Rocks!




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