[linux-audio-user] favorite window Manager for making music?

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:02 -0800, Brian Dunn wrote:
> So you guys helped me pick a distro, and i'm pretty
> happy with it.  Lets here the verdicts, what window
> manager? Gnome 2.12 is what i've been using, but it
> isn't the most stable.  Sometimes i can't logout and i
> have to switch to a vt and kill it. The absence of
> easily configurable menus has me sticking all my music
> apps in a "drawer," where those without icons apear as
> big feet that must be mouse-overed until i get
> tool-tipped to even know that program it is.  I could
> work around/live with it but then i resized one day
> with <ctrl>+<alt>+- to read some fine print and all o'
> the sudden the horizontal refresh was busted like an
> old television.  the whole screen was cycling to the
> left at a dizying pace and my muse cursor disapeared. 
> Even after killing X and restarting this nonsence was
> still going on and i hate having to reboot my machine.
>  So now i'm playing with e16... before i invest in
> realy figuring out how to use it, what do any of you
> using a jack studio setup with like MusE and Ardor and
> the like prefer?

Your problem almost certainly did NOT involve the window manager.

The version of Gnome on my Ubuntu Dapper system, 2.13.91, works
perfectly.

Lee