Re: Xquartz wm poll
Re: Xquartz wm poll
- Subject: Re: Xquartz wm poll
- From: Don MacQueen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:41:23 -0800
I was using blackbox under 10.4, but haven't been
able to get it going completely under 10.5. Main
hangup is getting both bbkeys and bbpager working.
One of my strong desires is for a window manager
that works well in rootless mode. In particular,
it should continue drawing each window (or at
least the window's outline) when a window is
moved or resized. Does Enlightenment do that?
I recently got fluxbox running in 10.5, but it
does not draw the window while moving or resizing.
thanks
-Don
At 7:34 PM -0700 11/1/08, Dave Ray wrote:
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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