[LAU] Lightweight WM that can be used without any issue with audio applications

[Philipp Überbacher]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 07:25:41 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> I switched from Xfce4 to JWM. JWM does work with all apps excepted of
> QjackCtl. Often I need to kill QjackCtl, because the Connect window
> always is above all other windows and it's impossible to close it. I
> don't want to use a tiling window manager or a WM that is nearly as
> bloated, as DEs such as Xfce4. What WMs do you use?

I used to experiment with WMs but I use Openbox since quite a while. It
does all the common stuff just fine, the only thing is that you get
into the intricacies of menu building. I ended up managing my menus
manually, which can be annoying, but at least they are categorised as I
want them too and not full of crud. There are helper programs for that
but they could be better (I'm thinking of obmenu). The other thing is
that the configurations are all XML and for advanced stuff it may be
necessary to edit the XML files by hand, something I do not enjoy.
Since a while ago I even have simple manual tiling working, without any
additional software.


> A lightweight DE would be ok too, as long as it isn't unstable and has
> got no dependencies to GNOME software. Bad coded stuff like
> Enlightenment is a complete no-go.

I actually like enlightenment (e17) for some reason. When I tested it
in the past it was a bit buggy though, but almost worse was that all
the themes had a lot of *bling*, meaning artificial gloss and fancy
animations and other stuff I can't stand. Of course they wanted to show
off that they can do that with low resource usage and without
compositing, which is cool, but they should have included at least one
really boring simple theme. Maybe I'll give it another spin some time.

Regards,
Philipp