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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:14:46 -0800 To: kmself@ix.netcom.com Cc: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: wm war! :-) (was Re: [svlug] KDE and GNOME) From: Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:06:53PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:56:18AM -0800, Chris Waters (xtifr@dsp.net) wrote: > > (Here's a hint: the configuration program is called "vi", and I've > > spent hours pouring over man pages to get it to do what I want -- but, > > by Ganesh, it does what I want. Eventually.) > My main leaning would be scwm, which is, IIRC, highly configurable. > icewm and fvwm2 also come to mind. Um, I think the configuration program for scwm is actually called "emacs", not "vi". :-) Although, to be honest, I am primarily an emacs person, and I really do like the way that scwm hooks into emacs. And it certainly does meet the other criteria I mentioned. But no, I think that one lisp-like interpreter in memory at a time is enough, Adding another, *just* to manage windows, seems overkillish to me. Especially when the end result runs much like molasses on a cold winter night in Siberia. Icewm has its own config program, though I suppose vi would work in a pinch. You still got it in three guesses, though. :-) === Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:37:31 -0800 From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> To: kmself@ix.netcom.com Cc: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: wm war! :-) (was Re: [svlug] KDE and GNOME) --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 03:05:08PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > WindowMaker is text configurable, and I've tweaked configs on occasion > (lispers will love it (really (I mean, yes, really (I'm not making this > up)). You do believe me, don't you?)). Lispers tend to love sawfish or SCWM. Damn it, why are window managers and editors the only things which tend to have powerful configuration languages? I would kill for mutt with a lisp scripting language (implementing scheme is being worked on, believe it or not), or a high-quality web browser with hooks and cookie management by regexp. This is also why when I write my Jabber client, it will have complete scripting support. What really sucks is that Scheme support for sockets or GUI is not portable. I'm thinking about using OCAML, but I've never used ML so I'm not sure yet. ===