Tenebrae wrote:
> Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! What looks good to you may not look
> good to me.
Ack. But one thing that comes to my mind is the sloppy focus. I think
most new users are used to the click-to-focus-modul. All
fvwm-default-configs that i saw use sloppy.
> Have you looked at the screenshots at www.fvwm.org? I think my dot file
Yes. Some look very good but the descriptions sound like it is much work
to get there.
> is up there with my config as are several others.
One thing that i do not like in your configuration is the (i guess it
is) fvwmbutton-panel that needs very much space. I would like to have as
much space on the desktop as possible. Only a flat taskbar is "allowed"
;) This taskbar should also contain buttons to switch the desktops (see
below).
What i like in icewm:
The taskbar with simple menu.
Changing and configuring themes is very simple:
Changing desktops is very simple:
- click on taskbar-buttons to change it, together with ALT the currently
focused window is moved to the clicked desktop, but the desktop is not
changed;
- ctrl-alt-cursor-left/right; together with shift the currently focused
window is taken to the next desktop.
- it is small and fast
- there are some simple but good configuration tools available.
What is missing in icewm:
- free tabbing of windows (a tab-bar should only occur above a window if
the windows is stuck together with another window).
- tabbing in the taskbar (as in the gnome-taskbar, as i think; e.g.
multiple nedit windows are put together into one button that opens a
menu with the nedit-window-list.)
What i do like in fvwm as far as i know it yet
- the virtual desktops that can be divided into pages; together with the
FVWMPager this gives a great huge-screen-feeling when using the right
mouse-button to scroll over the desktop. I am not sure if this can be
used more efficiently than the icewm-desktops, but it look interesting.
Here i would like to configure fvwm so that the pager (dis-)appears when
pressing a hotkey so that it does not consume to much space. Ideally the
buttons in the taskbar should address the pages on the current desktop
and the "active" pages on all other desktops.
- the simple motif-look (first it did look boring, but now i like it,
because it is so very simple)
- it is small and fast
- configuration possibilities => much to play ;) (but as i said, it's
time consuming)
Ciao,
Gert
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Received on Tue Jan 14 2003 - 12:36:38 GMT