Re: [linux-audio-user] favorite window Manager for making music?

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Sun Feb 19 2006 - 22:16:09 EET

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:02 -0800, Brian Dunn wrote:
> So you guys helped me pick a distro, and i'm pretty
> happy with it. Lets here the verdicts, what window
> manager? Gnome 2.12 is what i've been using, but it
> isn't the most stable. Sometimes i can't logout and i
> have to switch to a vt and kill it. The absence of
> easily configurable menus has me sticking all my music
> apps in a "drawer," where those without icons apear as
> big feet that must be mouse-overed until i get
> tool-tipped to even know that program it is. I could
> work around/live with it but then i resized one day
> with <ctrl>+<alt>+- to read some fine print and all o'
> the sudden the horizontal refresh was busted like an
> old television. the whole screen was cycling to the
> left at a dizying pace and my muse cursor disapeared.
> Even after killing X and restarting this nonsence was
> still going on and i hate having to reboot my machine.
> So now i'm playing with e16... before i invest in
> realy figuring out how to use it, what do any of you
> using a jack studio setup with like MusE and Ardor and
> the like prefer?

Your problem almost certainly did NOT involve the window manager.

The version of Gnome on my Ubuntu Dapper system, 2.13.91, works
perfectly.

Lee
Received on Sun Feb 26 20:15:49 2006

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