Re: [Hampshire] Alternative Window Managers

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:26:02 -0000
"Rob Malpass" <lug@???> wrote:

> I'd quite like to play with a wm that's neither gnome nor kde but I
> can't make my mind up whether to try and heavily customise either
> will give me the desired result.
>
> It's going back quite a while but the best desktop I've ever used
> (though I'm in no mood to start a flame war or defend it in any way!)
> was OpenWindows - around 1993 on Sun sparc workstations. I
> particularly liked the 3 buttons on the sparc mice: left and right
> work just like on Win or gnome but the middle button actually brought
> up the "program menu" (not sure what else to call it).

sounds a bit like windowmaker to me. Give it a try :)


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John Lewis
using Debian Sid with windowmaker for a nicer desktop