Window managers (was: Re: [plug] net banking)

[Trevor Phillips]

On Friday 04 June 2004 17:03, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Trevor Phillips wrote:
> | (Disclaimer: Yes, I KNOW some other wm's have similar functionality - I
> | should probably check 'em out again one of these days. Any
> | recommendations from fellow tab-junkies?)
>
> Ion (from the same authors as pwm) does tabs.  It also has incredibly
> bad default keybindings.  You may find its automatic tiling a bit odd

Not that PWM has great bindings. I've honed my config, and it's one of the 
first things I copy across when setting up pwm on a new system. ^_^

> at first, but for most of things that I use (xterms, Open Office, web
> browsing) it makes life a lot easier - your window manager does all of
> the work in positioning windows for you.  

I tried Ion - but I like the "windows" part of PWM, which Ion didn't have back 
then. I still wanted Mousey-Windows stuff - I just really liked being able to 
tab-group them. 

> Ion also has a pwm-like 
> mode, and is very flexible in the ways that you can combine pwm-like
> desktops with ion-like ones.

Maybe it's time I took another look at Ion. ^_^
(Or at least "pwm2", which is pwm-like functionality on the Ion base. Just 
reading up on it now.)

> Real purists will shun ion and use ratpoison instead :-)

^_^

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