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  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday October 03 2020, @11:28AM (7 children)

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 03 2020, @11:28AM (#1060297) Journal

    For me, the perfect window manager is Window Maker [windowmaker.org]. It's fairly simple and doesn't clutter the screen up with junk. It's also really easy to configure. I've been using it for nearly 20 years. Before that I used to use AfterStep until it got baroque. Back in the olden days (late 1990s) there seemed to be hundreds of window managers in development. I used to follow announcements on freshmeat.net every day and try out all the latest toys. There was a particularly fancy one called Enlightenment. It used to crash.

    I use RedHat-based distros at work (CentOS and occasionally RedHawk) and they keep trying to be like MS Windows, which I find irritating.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by coolgopher on Sunday October 04 2020, @01:46AM (1 child)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Sunday October 04 2020, @01:46AM (#1060472)

    Another Widow Maker user here, who also remembers trying out Enlightenment back in the day and going "ooh aah" over its fanciness, before uninstalling again due to lack of performance and stability.

    For a while I used the Gnome that came with Ubuntu at work, but then they went mad with Unity(?) and I've been back at wmaker since. While I do miss the odd bit of easy system config (monitor setup, global font selection), its automatic window placement more than makes up for it in my view. Keybinds for maximise vertically, horizontally or both make it a joy to swing umpteen xterms around.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 04 2020, @05:17PM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday October 04 2020, @05:17PM (#1060699) Homepage Journal

      Heh, I use wmctrl fired by conky every second or two for placement of windows I'm always going to want in the same place, with a hotkey to move/size any non-auto window to my standard working placement. It's not exactly efficient but it's good enough.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 04 2020, @05:13PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday October 04 2020, @05:13PM (#1060696) Homepage Journal

    Enlightenment's still around and still under development. They're up to 0.24.2 at the moment. I don't play with it nowadays unless it's been long enough that I've forgotten what a pain in the ass it is though. Openbox FTW.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by istartedi on Monday October 05 2020, @09:32PM (3 children)

    by istartedi (123) on Monday October 05 2020, @09:32PM (#1061106) Journal

    I never used Enlightenment myself, but I fondly remember a co-worker who did back in the 90s. It had translucency and other forms of eye candy years before others. It made it look like we were living in the future. It was cool to see somebody else doing it; but I just wanted to GSD.

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    • (Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday October 06 2020, @10:25AM (2 children)

      by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 06 2020, @10:25AM (#1061229) Journal

      I used to think transparent terminals were cool back then but I went back to plain old xterm. The transparent terminals were a bit slower, some were buggy and I soon found the background distracting when trying to get things done. I still use xterm. It's small, fast and does everything I need. With a bit of shell scripting, it's an important building block in my environment. Together, bash, xterm and ash are incredibly powerful tools.

      • (Score: 5, Funny) by DECbot on Tuesday October 06 2020, @01:12PM

        by DECbot (832) on Tuesday October 06 2020, @01:12PM (#1061249) Journal

        I have kept the terminal transparency--at about 80% on a windowing environment capable of doing composting. The result is being able to type over the windows behind the terminal with little distraction, but when needed I can see through the terminal to reference documentation, like the switches for the command I'm stringing together (or blatant copy/pasta of commands from the internet to be executed as root--yes I know what I'm doing, being stupid).

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @06:34PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @06:34PM (#1062183)

        Try alacritty. I never used xterm because rxvt/urxvt was always better, but after 15 years I have finally moved.

        And I used to use fvwm (still install it because why not) but I am stuck on KDE that now likes to call itself plasma. Honestly, I am very happy with it.

        As far as enlightenment is concerned, at some point of time close to 2008-2010, Rasterman was contacted by Samsung to write backend for mobile devices, so he dropped all the bling-bling and focused on fixing base libraries (efl), in top of which his minions created the most easily portable and most uninspired desktop experience and basically kicked e17 out the door, to be used by no known user. Seriously, the stuff you could do in e17 back in 2008 was all gone by 2012. What a let down. Now its proponents write shitty software on top of efl like terminology that doesn't work properly and will never because its developers have no goal beside using efl.