rethinking the window manager

rethinking the window manager

Posted Dec 21, 2006 3:46 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: rethinking the window manager by nix
Parent article: KDE 4: the ultimate business desktop? (Computerworld)

When I get tired of Gnome I'll go back to Ratpoison until I get tired of that.

I like ratpoison for my laptop. It doesn't have a very high resolution and I find trackpads abhorent so it works out nicely. Also it's nice if I want to concentrate on one task as it helps to avoid distraction.

Plus it's a Apple laptop so the look of dismay on OS X user's faces is pretty nice.

It's lightweight, but I don't use it because of that. (I start up beagle, and dbus and gnome session in the background. The thing has over a gig of ram in it and I hover at about 30% usage at full tilt in Gnome with having the browser open for days)

The solution for having the little time and monitoring is to whip up a little script to output the information you want with a key combo.

The solution to multiple window applications, like gimp, is to write a small script to launch a xnest full screen with that application running in it. Pretty simple stuff.

At one point to amuse myself I had KDE running in one window. Gnome in another, and OS X running on Mac-on-Linux in another. I was doing the 'Parrellels' thing before parrellels.

I tried looking at ion and such, but I never realy caught on. Ratpoison is easy because I use screen all the time and it's pretty much the same thing, but for X, so the concept is easy to grasp.

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