NETWM-compliant minimal window manager?

racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

evilwm is dead, and AFAIK isn't NETWM-compliant.
ratpoison is alive, but doesn't have NETWM-compliance.
wmii isn't in a workable state yet.

Haven't tried many others.

The reason I want NETWM-compliance is because I want to toy with cool stuff like custom pager, Skippy, et cetera.

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

fvwm, fluxbox...
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mascanho · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject:

Fvwm, fluxbox , blackbox , Xfce all my favorites git it a try ..
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racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

None of those are very minimal.

mascanho · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:30 pm Post subject:

ok besides wmi ... dunno ... prompt ?
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racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

wmi is borderline minimal. wmi itself doesn't have NETWM spec support and probably never will (only time when wmi gets touched is when it has a bug, no new features are being added). It's successor (wmii) will, but is in severe development stage at the moment, isn't in portage at the moment, and doesn't actually have it yet.

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BlackEdder · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:57 pm Post subject:

Official release date of wmii is quite close (march 25), I'd wait for that. BTW I find it strange you see ratpoison, wmi etc as minimal window managers. It are the only window managers (together with ion ofcourz) that actually manage windows instead of throwing them somewhere on the desktop. The term window managing window managers might be better (WMWMs).

mascanho · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject:

Why Not Fvwm ?

http://fvwm.org
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racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

You already said that. I've used fvwm. It's NOT minimal.

Also: I've been tracking wmii in darcs for a while. There's no chance it'll be done my 25/3. It was supposed to be done a month and a half ago.

mascanho · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject:

Man ... you dont wanna decide ...

how about

racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

Sure I want to decide, in fact, all I want is to decide. It's just that you keep suggesting things like Fluxbox/Blackbox/fvwm which clearly aren't in the same league as evilwm, ratpoison, windowlab, and wmii.

I think I'm going to go with wmii, but the problem is that the deadline is useless. I talk to Garbeam and _uriel daily, they all agree that the deadline is moot.

mascanho · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject:

yes, but can it be that though to decide something like then when you have lots os wm ś to choose from, that its almost hard to choose

i understand you, try them all

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racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

I have tried them all, that's the problem. There are no WMWM's (to use the quote four posts up from here) that are also NETWM-specced at the moment. wmii will probably be the first, but it'll take a few weeks :-)

COiN3D · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject:

What about waimea or kahakai?
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mascanho · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:21 pm Post subject:

re-nice wrote