Linux widgets

[Frank Kumro]

Ive used fluxbox for over 2 years and just recently have been trying
KDE. I def like the clean look of fluxbox. Just recently I havent had
the urge to use it...i dont know why

On 7/14/05, ptgoodman <ptgrunner at earthlink.net> wrote:
> pirrone wrote:
> 
> > ptgoodman wrote:
> >
> >> pirrone at localnet.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> For those for whom boredom (Does this refer to the pleasure of visual
> >>> effects and clicking a mouse pointer on little pictures?) is less an
> >>> issue
> >>> than performance and productivity take a look at Fluxbox.
> >>> Frank
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I feel obligated to add fuel to the fire. <snip>
> >> I apologize in advance for anyone grievously offended,
> >> koyaanisqatsi
> >
> >
> > To Goodman and Benoit, et al.:
> >
> > PT, I'm sure nobody is offended by your preferences, and root to you
> > too E, but my only reason for mentioning Fluxbox was to suggest
> > something small and easily tried out for anyone who hasn't looked
> > beyond Gnome and KDE.
> >
> > The absence of icons, themes, and a start button along with the
> > presence of right-click (and center-click) menus and their simple
> > configuration files, not to mention key bindings and its simple config
> > file is the greatest departure from both Windows and Mac OS of any
> > environment I've used.
> >
> > It's a window-manager rather than a desktop, extremely fast, stable,
> > efficient, and productive.  I pop up a terminal window with alt-t and
> > I'm in business with the CLI if that's what I need.  Page with alt-F1
> > to F4 and I can fill 4 workspaces with segregated and organized work
> > faster than you can move your open windows out of the way to click on
> > a desktop icon.  A pleasing and simple color scheme can be created (if
> > you don't like those provided) in a few minutes - same for new menu
> > items (all categorized as appropriate or desired) and new keybindings.
> > Right-click and up pops the cascading menus where the submenus can be
> > torn off temporarily as needed and left open in the workspace.  Two
> > windows, or more, can be dragged together and accessed, especially
> > with sloppy focus, by simply flicking back and forth across their
> > names in the window's title bar.  Even better, these programs can be
> > opened initially in the same window by just listing them together on a
> > line in the groups file.  Good example of this is opening the mixer
> > and the editor windows of Ardour in one window frame.  Certainly beats
> > buttons on a taskbar or zooming icons on a dock for cleanness,
> > compactness, speed, and efficiency.
> >
> > The mixture of CLI and GUI applications (I pop up my preferred file
> > manager Midnight Commander - totally tricked out with bindings for
> > everything, and it comes with enough as is, with alt-f, run wget in a
> > small terminal window, process files with grep, cat, cut, sort, sed
> > faster than it's even possible to open a graphical application, ssh
> > into work in another terminal window, work in Pan, Firefox,
> > Thunderbird, run countless graphical apps like The Gimp, Audacity,
> > Ardour, Rosegarden - and the list really is mind boggling, all
> > together makes for the most productive working environment and set of
> > tools I can imagine.
> >
> > I will confes to one minor meaningless amusement - MC along with some
> > of that other CLI stuff does often run in a titleless, frameless,
> > scrollbarless, transparent Eterm or sometimes a less dramatic Aterm.
> > It's still a kick to see ls -la --color | more display directory
> > contents as it hovers disembodied on my screen against the dark blue
> > Fluxbox workspace background:
> >
> > Eterm --trans --borderless --scrollbar off --buttonbar off --geometry
> > 100x44+185+65 --font 10x20 --foreground-color white -e mc
> >
> > It just doesn't get any better than that...
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >
> Excellent. I haven't offended anyone...at least others have not
> expressed indignation ( yet ). I like the Virtual Windows capabilities
> under Redhat. I'm still at Redhat 8.x with my Linux box still packed
> away until I have room to unpack. The window manager to manage text
> windows is perfectly acceptable...in fact, it is desirable if I may be
> so bold as to say so. GUIs and Desktops simply conceal too much from me
> to allow me any level of comfort and confidence. Command lines allow me
> to see quite explicitly what I'm requesting on a single line. GUIs with
> several layers of submenus simply frustrate me.
> 
> Thank you,
> koyaanisqatsi
> 


-- 
Frank
Shenanigans!!