Greetings: Blackbox. Fast, light, totally unadorned... My machines are quite slow by today's standards, so I need to squeeze the juice out of 'em. I like KDE and GNOME, but they're 'way too heavy for me. Best, dp Brett W. McCoy wrote: > Andrew Dahlin wrote: > >> first of all, sorry if this topic has been talked about to death. >> >> At the moment i'm starting to get more and more into recording (both >> multi-track and synths, etc). I added on a second monitor and am now >> in the process of trying out different window managers (again). I'm >> using xfce at the moment, but i might try fluxbox again for a while. >> >> Now for the question: which window manager are you using for audio >> work and why? I don't mean for this to start a flame war... notice it >> wasn't titled "what's the best window manager?" ;) I just want to >> take an informal survey of what everyone is using and see why people >> use what they do. > > > I was using xfce but moved over to using Windowmaker just because I > like the usability of WindowMaker a little more. Both of them are > very lightweight and work well for audio, I think, and don't have the > overhead of a full-blown desktop environment like KDE or Gnome. >