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

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:56:34 +0100
tim hall <tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk> wrote:

> Last Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:30, Andrew Dahlin was like:
> > 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.
> 
> Openbox3
> 
> I use it because I prefer the way it looks to fluxbox and it's totally netWM 
> compatible (i.e. standards compliant) It's remarkably like running a 
> lightweight version of GNOME, but totally customisable. All it does is manage 
> windows, nothing else, which is a Good Thing IMO. I use gkrellm and fbpanel 
> to provide friendly GUI facilities and lots of keybindings.

Oooooo, thats nice!!!

	http://icculus.org/openbox/

Written in C (unlike (flux|black)box which is C++).

I'm going to give that a whirl. If it works, its unlikely that
(flux|black)box will have another outing on any of my machines.

Erik
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