Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

So, what Desktop Environment/Window Manager do you use, and why?

A somewhat custom Fvwm2 config.  "Somewhat" in that it began (many
years ago) as the default, and it has diverged since then as I've added
tweaks along the way.

Started out with Twm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm), moved to Fvwm
(when it was just Fvwm) at some point when it offered something that
Twm didn't (I forget what the "offering" was now).  Then moved to Fvwm2
when it replaced the original.

Also, what do you think your choice of environment has to offer that
isn't found, or rarely found in others?

Infinite customizations.  One very useful tweak I made a number of
years ago was to change the right mouse click on the title bar to be an
Fvwm2 "RaiseLower" operation.  The result is it gives the missing
opposite function to the usual "click to raise" a window in that it is
also "click to push down" a window.  So what ever is on top, I can
"push it down in the stack" to then see what is underneath.

Another useful tweak has been to "force correct behavior" on badly
behaved programs.  There have been the occasional program (OpenOffice
was one) that thought themselves too self important and did a "Raise"
on themselves anytime the mouse passed over their windows.  As I have
Fvwm2 set to focus-follows-mouse without any raise, this miss-behavior
was very bad.  So a few Fvwm2 config tweaks later and I took away those
programs ability to "self-raise" themselves.  At which point they
became properly well behaved.