Fryguy8
05-21-2003, 01:09 AM
Well it seems like quite a few people on here use fluxbox, and for good reason (I used it for a while, and am actually using it right now on my new gentoo setup).
However, one of the first window managers I ever used was sawfish. Nowadays it's VERY extensible, and you can SERIOUSLY micromanage your windows with it. I believe a window manager should be just that, a window manager, without backgrounds, desktop icons etc (yes I basically ripped that from their website), and while fluxbox has this philosophy too, it lacks a lot of window management features. Sawfish has tools to identify specific windows by ID, and easily switch to a specific window with a keystroke, and to alternate back and forth between 2 windows (handy for programming), it has several ways to manipulate workspaces, giving a lot more room to work (I was always a huge fan of the waimea workspace-scrolling, one of the reasons I chose it as my *box of choice for quite a while).
Waimea is horribly unstable and not maintained however, and sawfish just seems a lot nicer overall features-wise to me than fluxbox.
So let me ask the question, why are YOU using fluxbox, and have you ever used sawfish?
I just want to make sure I'm not missing something obvious here.
However, one of the first window managers I ever used was sawfish. Nowadays it's VERY extensible, and you can SERIOUSLY micromanage your windows with it. I believe a window manager should be just that, a window manager, without backgrounds, desktop icons etc (yes I basically ripped that from their website), and while fluxbox has this philosophy too, it lacks a lot of window management features. Sawfish has tools to identify specific windows by ID, and easily switch to a specific window with a keystroke, and to alternate back and forth between 2 windows (handy for programming), it has several ways to manipulate workspaces, giving a lot more room to work (I was always a huge fan of the waimea workspace-scrolling, one of the reasons I chose it as my *box of choice for quite a while).
Waimea is horribly unstable and not maintained however, and sawfish just seems a lot nicer overall features-wise to me than fluxbox.
So let me ask the question, why are YOU using fluxbox, and have you ever used sawfish?
I just want to make sure I'm not missing something obvious here.