for Blackbox clones....

[buttercrunch]

hm i've been using FluxBox for a while now, i like to know though about all the BlackBox clones
namely
FluxBox, OpenBox, Waimea, anymore??
can anyone (who've tried all of em, or knows) list some or one significant features that each wm have?
i like fluxbox coz it has tabbing stuff... its neat....
and waimea, it has support for menu transparency (i've seen screenshots...), then openbox, all i know is that it supports antialias.....

i'm dreaming about a wm that has all that features... sure if i've got the skill i'd have made another wm.. and its gonna have tabbing, transparencies in menues, support anti alias and so on..... :p

please tell me...

[Minus]

openbox- has antialiased fonts, shadowed fonts, edge/window snapping (all I can think of)

waimea- Has the most features. It has AA/shadowed fonts. Supports transparency. Dynamic menus. The biggest perk of waimea is the action file. You can set the behavior to be just about anything you want. For example i have XMMS sticky by default. I also have Gimp open the image window AlwaysAtBottom so it never covers up any toolbars (think photoshop). Aterm always opens under my pointer.
waimea also has support for virtual workspaces and desktops. You can have each desktop be 3x3 screens wide, and have 4 desktops. Each can have different attributes ( certain dockapps only in certain desktops, a gnome pannel in one desktop, a KDE kicker in another, etc)


P.S. If you want tabbing and AA fonts, check out pekwm (http://pekwm.babblica.net/)

[buttercrunch]

hmmm i think i may go for waimea.....
eww i dun like pekwm.. its just... i dunno.. i dun like it :p

any second opinions? :D
nb: i cant try all wm coz i dun have the time to play around and hd space is also low currently :(
i wanna uninstall kde, coz i have kde3 already.. would this cause my comp to crash?

[buttercrunch]

hmm but waimea doesnt have tabs :(

[GaryJones32]

It is possible to have more than one version of kde on your system at once
The KDE developers do it but it's kind of tricky.
you have to put all the needed libraries and stuff in different directories
and then use path variables to make sure you are only using one at a time
possibly one user can use one and the other can use the other
Aps compiled for one won't work for the other etc.
the versions are likely to trash each others config files