[linux-audio-user] what window manager are you using?

[Dave Phillips]

Greetings:

  Blackbox. Fast, light, totally unadorned... My machines are quite slow 
by today's standards, so I need to squeeze the juice out of 'em. I like 
KDE and GNOME, but they're 'way too heavy for me.

Best,

dp


Brett W. McCoy wrote:

> Andrew Dahlin wrote:
>
>> first of all, sorry if this topic has been talked about to death.
>>
>> At the moment i'm starting to get more and more into recording (both
>> multi-track and synths, etc). I added on a second monitor and am now
>> in the process of trying out different window managers (again). I'm
>> using xfce at the moment, but i might try fluxbox again for a while.
>>
>> Now for the question: which window manager are you using for audio
>> work and why? I don't mean for this to start a flame war... notice it
>> wasn't titled "what's the best window manager?" ;) I just want to
>> take an informal survey of what everyone is using and see why people
>> use what they do.
>
>
> I was using xfce but moved over to using Windowmaker just because I 
> like the usability of WindowMaker a little more.  Both of them are 
> very lightweight and work well for audio, I think, and don't have the 
> overhead of a full-blown desktop environment like KDE or Gnome.
>