[Eug-lug] Favourite WM/Desktop

Tim Howe thowe at my180.net
Thu Jan 27 09:59:02 PST 2005


Me too.  I like OpenBox 3.2.  Inspired by Blackbox, but not derived from the Blackbox code tree.  XML menus and config.  Fast, attractive (as you make it) and no evil icons.  I try lots of stuff and always come back to OpenBox.

--TimH

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:58:12 -0800
Allen Brown <allen_brown at agilent.com> wrote:

> I am interested.  I haven't installed Flux yet.  But I may
> get time to try it this weekend.
> 
> Frankly I'd be happy with a totally blank screen where I
> access all capabilities thru menus rather than icons.
> -- 
> Allen Brown
>    work: Agilent Technologies      non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
>          allen_brown at agilent.com	            abrown at peak.org
>    A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.
> 
> 
> Mr O wrote:
> > There's a few methods of desktop switching in Flux. Desktop
> > Wheeling allows you to use the scroll wheel on the desktop to
> > switch (personally, I find that method annoying), wheeling on
> > the menu/taskbar works too. The standard 'Alt+F1, F2, etc..'
> > will also get the job done. Not sure how it would work above 10
> > but it would go. I stick to the default 4. I'd be happy to dump
> > my menu file anytime just so you can see the structure in case
> > you want to try it yourself.
> > 
> > Mr O.
> > 
> > 
> > --- Allen Brown <allen_brown at agilent.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>I've never used fluxbox.  What I'm hearing here sounds
> >>promising.
> >>I dislike cluttering my screen.  Does it allow me to change
> >>from
> >>room to room easily?  I tend to keep up to 12 rooms, and fill
> >>them
> >>fully.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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