Reviewing Window Managers

[Alex Beamish]

On 4/4/07, Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> [..]
> Where I could use some help ...
>
> - history: I was a relatively early starter with Linux (1994) but I
> think there are people on this list who were using Unix 20 years prior
> to that.  Feel free to take a look at
> http://www.gilesorr.com/papers/otherwm2007/images/owm.png in all its
> ludicrous glory and tell me what I've missed.  It's an attempt to
> document influence between WMs.  It's also big and unwieldy.
>
> - tracking down WMs I've missed: please look at the following list and
> see if any WMs you know are missing.
> [..]
> - wimpwm (http://uebb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~magr/wimpwm/)
> + Windowlab
> + WindowMaker (deb)


 http://www.windowmaker.info/

WindowMaker is the only one I use .. I just don't have the patience for
Gnome or KDE.

In WindowMaker, there's no menu unless you ask for it; I can switch between
virtual desktops with a keystroke or a mouse click (but the keystroke is
about 100 times more likely) and it's very fast.

But I concede that this is a personal choice .. I like a clean interface
that's a simple as possible. That's probably why I love Google's main page
and dislike the craziness of most media web sites -- too many different
sized boxes, all that flashing, moving, and changing colours going on in the
ads and competing for my attention.

-- 
Alex Beamish
Toronto, Ontario
aka talexb
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