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Windowmaker

Posted Mar 17, 2011 22:13 UTC (Thu) by speedster1 (guest, #8143)
In reply to: XFCE by sramkrishna
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Yes, wmaker for the win!

Quite stable, relatively low resources, has a convenient gui for settings AND sensible text config files that can be directly edited; what more do you need for hosting a slew of terminals plus a couple firefox, gimp, and/or wireshark windows?

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Posted Mar 17, 2011 22:23 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (2 responses)

have they made it able to work across multiple monitors yet? (I used to use windowmaker but a combination of a bad release in my primary distro and moving to a multi-monitor setup pushed me away from it a couple of years ago)

Windowmaker

Posted Mar 17, 2011 22:52 UTC (Thu) by speedster1 (guest, #8143) [Link] (1 responses)

Multi-monitor as in xinerama?

Don't use multiple monitors myself, but the windowmaker-user mailing list shows a happy user of xinerama on version 0.92, which is still current.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.windo...

Also there was a gentoo bug a while back about adding libxinerama as a dependency, but no complaints about xinerama being broken, so that's another piece of evidence in favor of it working.

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Posted Mar 17, 2011 23:03 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

on KDE and Gnome with Ubuntu I've been using xrandr to do the configuration, I don't know about xinerama (I've never tried to configure it)

when I asked at the windowmaker booth at Scale (last year or the year before), I was told that windowmaker didn't currently support multi-monitor configurations, but it was a commonly asked for feature.

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Posted Mar 18, 2011 0:37 UTC (Fri) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link]

meh... generally I agree, but having to RTFS quite a bit before figuring out how to get rid of idiotic panel thrown up on Alt-Tab had been annoying, to put it mildly (SwitchPanelImages = None; in GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker, FWIW). Not documented, not doable via their GUI config (verified by RTFS, again - it's not just hard to find)... And the way they launch stuff when restoring the session is racy - event at the wrong time and the damn thing gets confused, slapping everything into one workspace.

Still far less annoying than GNOME, wrt both the program behaviour and not employing marketing teams that would spew forth the gems about Craving For Change(tm)...