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

Right now, openbox with gnome.
http://hans.fugal.net/blog/linux/openbox.html

I've done time with, and enjoyed, windowmaker, fluxbox, fvwm, and fvwm
with gnome, xfce4, and fvwm with xfce4-panel. I've done time with and
almost enjoyed blackbox, metacity, saw{mill,fish}, and a number of less
memorable ones. ion was a fun diversion, and for some workflows, mostly
programming, very efficient. It helps keep me from getting distracted.
And then there's the bad ones: twm, and that proprietary unix joke whose
name I can't remember.

Overall fvwm is probably the winner, except I have a hard time doing
without a decent most-recently-used window switching algorithm. Openbox
is so far so good, although I'm tempted to try fluxbox again for the
tabbed windows (I guess it mostly depends on if I can get gnome-terminal
to behave).

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>

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Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net
 
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the 
right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
    -- Johann Sebastian Bach