I use fvwm: very configurable, and lightweight, IMO.... --- James Ralston <qralston+ml.redhat-fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I see that in terms of window managers, FC3 dropped sawfish and added > xfwm4. > > Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this means that from my point of > view, FC3 does not have a usable window manager. > > As far as I'm concerned, a usable window manager must support the > following capabilities: > > 1. GNOME-aware. > > 2. The ability to bind events to keyboard/mouse combinations, > such as binding "Raise Window" to "Meta+MouseButton1". > > 3. The ability to disable "raise on click" behavior. > > 4. The ability to disable "raise on focus" behavior. > > The last time I checked, metacity failed #3, and Havoc refuses to add > capability #2: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95499 > > xfwm4 appears to fail capability #2. > > twm and mwm fail capability #1. > > If my assessment above is wrong, I would appreciate corrections, as I > would greatly prefer to use one of the window managers that comes with > FC3. > > Otherwise, if my assessment is correct: what are those of you who also > demand the above capabilities using? Sawfish from CVS? Something > else? > > Thanks, > > -- > James Ralston, Information Technology > Software Engineering Institute > Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
