On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:56:34 +0100 tim hall <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Last Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:30, Andrew Dahlin was like: > > 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. > > Openbox3 > > I use it because I prefer the way it looks to fluxbox and it's totally netWM > compatible (i.e. standards compliant) It's remarkably like running a > lightweight version of GNOME, but totally customisable. All it does is manage > windows, nothing else, which is a Good Thing IMO. I use gkrellm and fbpanel > to provide friendly GUI facilities and lots of keybindings. Oooooo, thats nice!!! http://icculus.org/openbox/ Written in C (unlike (flux|black)box which is C++). I'm going to give that a whirl. If it works, its unlikely that (flux|black)box will have another outing on any of my machines. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb." -- Steve Haflich, in comp.lang.c++
