[Xastir] Window managers

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:05:47PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007, James Jolin wrote:
> 
> > Sometime back I asked what distros people where using.  Had some real
> > nice input.  Now, to satisfy my curiosity, I wondered what  window
> > managers you all are using...kde, gnome or what.
> 
> Yuk.
> 
> Nothing but the best here:  FVWM2!

Heh.  Mostly megadittos from here.  I run FVWM2 on two of the machines I use
for Xastir and still really enjoy the simplicity and cleanliness of such
a minimalist window manager that stays out of my way.  But my newer laptop 
running Ubuntu just uses the default gnome desktop --- I have somehow been 
able to overcome my dislike of overengineered desktop environments enough to 
enjoy using the laptop in this configuration.

I don't actually *use* the xastir virtual machine much other than to test
it out and distribute it, but the Xfce desktop environment is a nice 
compromise between FVWM ("just stay out of my way and manage my windows") and
the other complete desktop environments --- lightweight enough to be usable
on old clunkers, but not as old-school hardcore as FVWM.

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