Brian Dunn:
So you guys helped me pick a distro, and i'm pretty happy with it. Lets here the verdicts, what window manager? Gnome 2.12 is what i've been using, but it isn't the most stable. Sometimes i can't logout and i have to switch to a vt and kill it. The absence of easily configurable menus has me sticking all my music apps in a "drawer," where those without icons apear as big feet that must be mouse-overed until i get tool-tipped to even know that program it is. I could work around/live with it but then i resized one day with <ctrl>+<alt>+- to read some fine print and all o' the sudden the horizontal refresh was busted like an old television. the whole screen was cycling to the left at a dizying pace and my muse cursor disapeared. Even after killing X and restarting this nonsence was still going on and i hate having to reboot my machine. So now i'm playing with e16... before i invest in realy figuring out how to use it, what do any of you using a jack studio setup with like MusE and Ardor and the like prefer?
I have used fvwm the last 10 years and has always been very satisfied. For about a year, though, I used gnome/sawfish, because I was able to configure it like I want, but later gnome became less configurable, and I went back to fvwm, and I don't see any reason to change. Sometimes, though, I need the gnome-menues to find some certain program. So I have configured fvwm to pop up the gnome-menues when I press Alt+F1. I could also just run the program "gnome-panel", which does the same thing. I agree though, fvwm is ugly. But you get used to it. :-) (And its completely configurable anyway, so it can be changed to look like whatever.)
