22 Feb
2013
22 Feb
'13
2:06 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:59:02 +0100, William Light
<wrl(a)illest.net> wrote:
I've been productive on OpenBox with fbpanel, though it wasn't with
audio. It's pretty much indistinguishable from more complex desktops -
it has a start button/menu, task bar, "desktops"/"workspaces", a
clock
and a Network Manager icon.
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on Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 08:45:43AM +0100,
Raffaele Morelli wrote:
Perhaps there are, maybe there aren't, but tiled WMs anyway are useless for
a serious audio production GUI workflow, you even don't need a WM, simply
use X only, if you like to break a sane workflow.
At the moment I build a minimal install, that seriously can be used for a
common audio workflow and for this install I keep Xfce4.
There's a difference between a minimal install that makes sense and a geek
contest, to get something that is lightweight, but useless for serious GUI
audio work.
You at least want something as LXDE or Fluxbox. Frame based WMs might fit to
the very special needs of a minority, but can't be a serious recommendation.
2013/2/20 Len Ovens <len(a)ovenwerks.net>
Or, if it fits your workflow, there's not much lighter than dwm.
http://dwm.suckless.org/
With all the talk about minimal DE installs, and reading about the
problems with different kernels and video cards... and what things
cause
xruns. I thought of a solution that may work well.
Here is my minimal DE through the eyes of ps:
About minimal/light DE, I would suggest the use of awesome
http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Main_Page