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

[pirrone]

Andrew Dahlin wrote:

>first of all, sorry if this topic has been talked about to death.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Thanks in advance,
>--Andrew
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Fluxbox:

It's extremely low in system load, fast, compact, configurable, 
efficient, has menus easy to generate and modify, supports simple key 
bindings to launch apps or even groups of apps, themes are simple to 
create and apply, has no useless crap on screen, power and simplicity of 
right-click cascading menus is unbeatable, user can tear off a submenu 
then close it when done with a single click, and it does everything I 
need a WM to do

Tabbed dialogs - can merge applications into one window, or with Ardour 
for example can open the editor under one tab and the mixer under another:

in file ~/.fluxbox/groups all you need is ardour_editor ardour_mixer to 
open both in one window from one click
in file ~/.fluxbox/keys Mod1 m  :ExecCommand 
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird launches Thunderbird
in file /usr/local/share/fluxbox/styles/Custom this simple line sets the 
appearance of the root window -
            rootCommand:  bsetroot -mod 4 4 -bg rgb:10/20/30 -fg 
rgb:30/40/50
in top, system load at idle:
PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS   SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
1011 root           12   0  2412   2408  1828 S                0.0       
0.4          0:00    fluxbox

I've been using this WM for a couple of years now, and whenever I find 
myself in Gnome or KDE, or God forbid Windows, I feel constrained, 
dictated to, and surrounded by clutter.  It supports all Linux audio 
work beautifully.  I cannot imagine, and certainly have never used a 
more productive work environment.

Frank

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