usable window manager for FC3?
Globe Trotter
itsme_410 at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 22 05:40:32 UTC 2004
I use fvwm: very configurable, and lightweight, IMO....
--- James Ralston <qralston+ml.redhat-fedora at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> I see that in terms of window managers, FC3 dropped sawfish and added
> xfwm4.
>
> Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this means that from my point of
> view, FC3 does not have a usable window manager.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, a usable window manager must support the
> following capabilities:
>
> 1. GNOME-aware.
>
> 2. The ability to bind events to keyboard/mouse combinations,
> such as binding "Raise Window" to "Meta+MouseButton1".
>
> 3. The ability to disable "raise on click" behavior.
>
> 4. The ability to disable "raise on focus" behavior.
>
> The last time I checked, metacity failed #3, and Havoc refuses to add
> capability #2:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95499
>
> xfwm4 appears to fail capability #2.
>
> twm and mwm fail capability #1.
>
> If my assessment above is wrong, I would appreciate corrections, as I
> would greatly prefer to use one of the window managers that comes with
> FC3.
>
> Otherwise, if my assessment is correct: what are those of you who also
> demand the above capabilities using? Sawfish from CVS? Something
> else?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> James Ralston, Information Technology
> Software Engineering Institute
> Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
>
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