Re: Xquartz wm poll
Re: Xquartz wm poll
- Subject: Re: Xquartz wm poll
- From: Dave Ray <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 19:34:08 -0700
I'm using the Enlightenment window manager, as you probably guessed
from my previous posts, mainly by force of habit, since 1998. It's
been a few years since I explored wm's and I'm not up to date on
what's out there today or how this choice might compare. I like
Enlightenment because it has many of the more robust workspace GUI
features common to full blown wm/workspace programs like Gnome and
KDE, without the extra agents and redundant features already available
under OS-X. It requires only one fairly lightweight process to run. I
like its pagers and workspace GUI.
Enlightenment has no support at all for Spaces, or for auto-arranging
windows as far as I know. That would be a great feature of an X11 wm,
to use the same O-X Spaces as its X11 pager workspaces. I'm not a big
fan of Spaces personally. I'm happy that Apple is making workspace
management available, but Spaces lacks many features that I liked in
non-Apple workspace programs under 10.4, such as VirtueDesktops.
(Ideally, I would want the X11 wm to use OS-X Spaces as its
workspaces; I would like to see Spaces offer good pagers like
Enlightenment; and to offer the switching features of Compiz Fusion, I
know thats a long way off)
Enlightenment and Eterm were easy for me to compile under 10.5. They
integrate well with each other. Admittedly a little dated.
Dave
On Nov 1, 2008, at 12:09 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:37:17 +0100
From: Andrea D'Amore <email@hidden>
Subject: Xquartz wm poll
To: "email@hidden Mailing" <email@hidden>
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Just for the sake of curiosity:
what window manager do you use in Xquartz?
I mostly use Gimp in Xquartz and had better feeling with metacity than
quartz-wm but it had some issues in Exposé window switching so I
dropped it in favor of quartz-wm, but I'm curious what other people
use.
By the way is there a window manager that autoarrange windows so they
don't overlay?
Andrea
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