On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 10:30:34AM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
On 05 Nov 10:22, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
xfce, its the new gnome.
Personally I use fluxbox. Fast, simple, intuitive. No clutter. The surprising thing about it is that if you give it to a technophobe, after ten minutes they are at home.
Personally, I use awesome, have a minorly customised config from the debian defaults, and stick with debian as far as possible (least likely distro to make horrific decisions for the users ever!).
I'm *thinking* about moving from my long-time favourite xfce/xubuntu to lxde/lubuntu as that uses Openbox as its window manager. Alternatively I may move to E17/Enlightenment, I'm not sure I'm keen on Openbox using XML configuration files.
OK - so my setup is marginally odd, such things as having xkb remap CapsLock to Meta4 for me... (who the heck needs CapsLock anyways? And
What's odd about that, CapsLock is an abomination that should never have been invented!
that key tends not to move, unlike the "Windows" key that is by default bound to Meta4), I tend to have 2 terminals per "tag" in awesome terms, and have 9 "tags" to choose from - tag 2 is dedicated to a maximised browser, and tags 7-9 are floating workspaces (i.e. windows are resizable etc and it's not tiled). I find that this works better for me than having everything floating, and I know that on tag 1 I'll find IRC and my personal mail (in screen, on my vm), and on tag 3 at work I'll find my work mail. tag 2 is always a browser (maybe more than one), tag 7 tends to be a graphical IM client at work, and could be anything at home. 8 and 9 are just "spare" until I need it.