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

Chris Ahlstrom wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:

Fluxbox.

Me too, although I have added a Rox Desktop for a few icons.

  -   Human-readable files for all of the configuration

I have had no problems with the configuration files in other
environments, but I am used to fluxbox and Rox by now.

  -   Menu file(s)

This is a fine thing, but, having no icons and not necessarily a
fbpanel (or any other panel) .., what else could you do?

  -   Keyboard mapping files, including window movement, resizing, macros

Here is a really great feature. Other environments allow the
definition of keyboard mappings, but with fluxbox, this is really
straightforward and you can create and modify a few in a row.

  -   Toggling window decoration

I did never care and thanks for the reminder.

Sometimes I'll set up Xfce to work roughly the same, but always come back
to fluxbox.

I began to use fluxbox when I had the very first really fast and
(for once) modern machine. Installing stuf that will eat up all the
advantages was not my priority and I chose fluxbox, because you can
virtually forget that it is there.

Cheerio

Michael
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