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What is your preferred window manager?| This doesn't apply to Windows users, but to most other operating system users. | kwin (KDE) |
23.1%, 3 votes | Nautalis (GNOME) |
23.1%, 3 votes | *box (please specify) |
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0.0%, 0 vote | FVWM |
7.7%, 1 vote | Enlightenment |
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0.0%, 0 vote | WindowMaker |
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0.0%, 0 vote | Other (specify) |
15.4%, 2 votes | My OS doesn't let me do that (for those that have to answer in polls) |
23.1%, 3 votes | My OS hides the option, but I use the default anyway |
7.7%, 1 vote | Multi-voting is enabled.
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1075/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Personally, I love FVWM for it's flexibility and perfectness once it's tweaked to perfection. | |||
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.  Level: 73  Posts: 1274/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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When I use Linux, I use Gnome.  |
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Rydain Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42  Posts: 456/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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| I first tried Enlightenment about three years ago because KDE was behaving weirdly on my computer for some reason and I felt like giving an unusual desktop environment a shot. After a few days of getting used to its minimalistic style, I realized that I vastly preferred said style to the taskbar + desktop icons paradigm of KDE and Gnome. I like to scatter windows around on multiple virtual desktops, which covers up desktop icons (and therefore makes them more annoying than useful because I don't want to have to go hunting for them under windows). I don't need a taskbar telling me where everything is all the time. I do like a place to put minimized windows, but an iconbox works better for that because it's small and inobtrusive. Enlightenment's application menu, which you click on the background to access, made sense to me because I could bring it up pretty much anywhere instead of having to click on a "Start" button every time and it only appeared when I needed it. The one aspect of Enlightenment that got on my nerves was its lack of antialiased fonts. When I heard about Xfce, which is built with GTK2 but can be configured to behave much like Enlightenment, I gave it a shot, and it's now my window manager of choice. The main differences I notice between it and Enlightenment are that it has a launcher panel and its pagers aren't quite as fancy. At first, I didn't particularly care for the launcher panel, but now I like it because it basically consolidates the functionality of pagers and the Epplets I used to run. It's very customizable, so I didn't have any trouble getting it into an inobtrusive configuration that I find useful. As far as the pagers go, they still let you drag windows from one desktop to another, but you can't reposition them with the pager. They snap to whatever position they had before you moved them. For example, if you drag a window in the upper righthand corner of one desktop, it will always wind up in the upper righthand corner of wherever you moved it to. Honestly, this has never inconvenienced me and I can see how people might prefer the pagers to behave in this way, but it would be nice to have the ability to reposition windows using pagers if you wished to do so. |
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Cellar Dweller Flurry !!! Level: 27  Posts: 204/269 EXP: 107817 For next: 8342 Since: 03-15-04 From: Arkansas Since last post: 16 days Last activity: 34 min. |
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| I use the version of IceWM that is distributed with Debian stable. It's small and fast, so it works well in my main computer: a 233 MHz PII. | |||
neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 2081/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| When I use Solaris at school, I use Gnome. Open windows is blah and Common Desktop Manager doesn't have much functionality besides multiple workspaces. | |||
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1082/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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I think you mean Common Desktop Environment (CDE)... I don't like it because it acts like Windows 3.1 except for the focusing style.  |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 2102/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| yeah, that's what I meant, CDE... 3.1 feel eh...that's true. Although, when you iconify, I can't seem to find it again... | |||
Banedon Giant Red Paratroopa Level: 55 Posts: 895/1408 EXP: 1291380 For next: 22809 Since: 03-15-04 From: Michigan Since last post: 101 days Last activity: 90 days |
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| I use Gnome, because that's what came with my Linux distrobution. | |||
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 264/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| I go with KDE, though I've used GNOME and Fluxbox. I don't really care much for GNOME, though I can't quite put my finger on why. It just doesn't feel as cohesive as KDE does. As for Fluxbox, I used that as my primary desktop environment for a while... it is by far the quickest of the three, and like being able to group windows, though I don't like its reliance on dockapps to confer more information than what windows are open (like, what time it is) or on always having desktop space visible in order to summon the program menu. Still, I'll take GNOME and Fluxbox over Windows any day of the week and twice on Thursdays. Though if given a choice I'll stick with KDE. |
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Jesper Busy, busy, busy. Level: 69  Posts: 1938/2390 EXP: 2856000 For next: 13743 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden. Since last post: 176 days Last activity: 79 days |
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Where's the "My OS does let me do it inofficially, but I prefer the native Window Manager anyway" option? (OS X  ) |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1088/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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Add'd. Edit Poll is great, isn't it?  |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 1311/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by Jesper I like the native Window Manager in OS X too. But I do enjoy skinning it on occasion  |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1091/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Mind you, skinning is NOT the same as changing window managers. Windows users can't come in here saying "I use WindowBlinds (or the UXTheme patch)". That's just changing how it looks, not how it manages windows. | |||
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 1313/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by FreeDOS I know that. I just wanted to mention skinning anyways, cause it's teh fun. I can't change the way my OS X windows work, but I can make it as shiny or as matt or as purple or whatever as I like. Different, but still fun. |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 7796/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| Can anyone name me a Windows manager that don't waste 49749848 resources as soon I use it? ...hell, I just want a simple distro to screw around with. Fedora core is like Win XP in the bloat department. I want a light distro. With light stuff...  |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1092/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| I like Slackware, but it's not for people that know nothing, like Red Hat or Fedora. I use FVWM, it's very lightweight and has enough things to look and act like anything you want it to be. Want a Windows 95 look? No problem. WinXP (Luna)? No problem. Mac OS X? No problem. KDE look? No problem. anyway... yes. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 3199/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Every OS I've seen except the various Mac ones use a taskbar... What other sorts of systems are popular? It could be neat to use something different. | |||
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1095/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Program Manager (yuck) There's a dock thing that's in Mac OS X and CDE (various Unices, like Solaris) and XFCE. |
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Jesper Busy, busy, busy. Level: 69 Posts: 1947/2390 EXP: 2856000 For next: 13743 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden. Since last post: 176 days Last activity: 79 days |
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| The closest thing for -window- management is Expos | |||
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Rydain Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 463/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker Windows taskbar functionality falls into multiple categories and many of the alternative interface styles use different features to handle each, so I'll address the types of functionality separately. Launching applications Root menu - This menu appears when you click on the desktop. Enlightenment, Xfce, and Blackbox have this. (It's probably in other minimalist window managers as well.) Enlightenment and Xfce's can be hierarchical like the Windows Start menu. (Blackbox's probably has that feature too, but I've never messed around with it, just seen Rando use it.) Dock-like icons - You can put these on Xfce's launcher panel. Each icon can have an optional popup menu attached to it, which can be a helpful space saver. For instance, you can put your browser, email client, LiveJournal client, etc. underneath a single INTARWEB icon. Hiding and keeping track of windows Loads o' desktop space - This and a taskbar are not mutually exclusive, but I'm going to mention it anyway because it gives you options for managing your stuff that can make a taskbar less important (or, in my case, just plain useless). At work, I find that the Windows 2000 taskbar is essential because I usually have a buttload of stuff full-screened and it all overlaps, so it's easiest to click on an item in the taskbar when I need to bring it to the front instead of trying to dig it out from underneath a bunch of other crap. With four desktops on my home machine, I have plenty of space to spread out applications that take up tons of screen real estate. For instance, Firefox is on my main desktop, and I have a text editor on the second and Gimp on the third. I know where everything is, so instead of using a taskbar to get to various applications, I just switch desktops. Iconbox - Think of this as a storage chest for your windows. You put things in the box and then retrieve them when you want to use them again. Enlightenment has one by default. Xfce has an optional one (which can also function in a more taskbar-ish sense if you tell it to show all open applications - I don't do this because I don't need to know where everything is at all times). Menu - In Blackbox, when you hide a window, it disappears, and you select it from a menu to get it back. |
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