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

From: Frank Barknecht <fbar@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 14:03:00 EET

Hallo,
Mark Knecht hat gesagt: // Mark Knecht wrote:

> I second all the good stuff about fluxbox technically and its low
> system resource usage, but as a day to day environment for running
> stuff like Crossover Office, Open Office, etc., I got too tired having
> to make all my menus by hand.

Personally I got tired of reaching for the mouse just to start some
application a long time ago. I configured the often used applications
like Rxvt or Firefox or Qjackctl to keyboard shortcuts using the
otherwise useless "Windows"-key and a letter.

My recommendation of using "screen" as a window manager wasn't a joke:
Having a terminal running with 10 screen windows inside will let me
start any application I want with a little Ctl-A-ing and typing and
TABing in mere fractions of seconds. I always use the same couple of
applications anyways. It's been a long time since I last started an
application through a Menu entry. Linux still is a unix-like system
with a very powerfull shell, that people should learn to use IMO.
(Did I mention, that my file managers are cd, cp, ls, mv, mkdir and
rm?)

Once you get around to use the keyboard instead of Menus, the question
of what X-window-manager is running becomes totally irrelevant or
rather an aesthetic question: All window managers can move windows
around, iconify them etc.

Ciao

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Received on Sun Feb 26 20:16:42 2006

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