On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 01:37:45PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:40 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > for a long time I used IceWM as my windowmanager since I dont > > want to mimicry other OSses (...) or want session management. > > One thing, which is a must-have of windowmanagers I want to use > > is the possibility to control the windowmanager nearly completly > > with the keyboard (hotkeys configurable) which does *not* > > imply "uncontrollable by mouse" ;) > > Furthermore I should not be a hana-bi or anything else eye-candy > > like (nothing against hana-bi as hana-bi!) -- most of the time > > I will use the windowmanager instead of only looking at it -- which > > does not imply: "black anmd white ugly ascii thingy". > > > > Since IceWM seems to be gone into hibernation phase I am looking for > > a replacement which should > > -- be widely configurable via ascii files > > -- be as far as possible controllable by keyboard > > -- be also useable with the mouse > > -- no eye-candy > > -- not ugly > > -- NOT tiling > > -- FAST! > > > > I would like to hear from others what experiences they made with > > what windowmanagers. > > > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > > Best regards and have a nice weekend! > > Meino Cramer > > try Openbox, tiny but modern >
Another vote for Openbox. Good little wm. If you want a panel for it, I'd suggest fbpanel.
