Re: [tlug] Desktop Wars Query

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 26/06/07, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:

> I have played with XFCE, but found their GUI for key bindings
> unintuitive--which is also my complaint about openbox.

What GUI? I edit the keybinding shite in .config/openbox/rc.xml directly.

> I can see Josh, who is comfortable with emacs, finding openbox's
> keybindings a breeze,

Whatever are you insinuating?

/me takes a drink of tea, exposing horribly bent and crippled fingers:
the dreaded Emacs Claw!

But seriously, if you don't like a binding in one of the Box WMs, just
change it. That is one of my biggest complaints about Gnome and KDE:
it is hard to configure every aspect of key bindings. I don't see why
anything the WM knows how to do cannot be bound to a key if that is
what the user fancies. I use keybindings for maximise, minimise, move,
resive, shade, toggle decorations, etc.

> I like a wee bit of eye candy, backgrounds and such, which is why I use
> fluxbox rather than an even more minimalistic WM. Josh on the other
> hand, with much younger eyes, likes even a bit more eye candy,
> transparent windows and such.  At least he used to--he showed me, I
> thought it was neat and did it for awhile, but it was hard on my eyes.

I change my mind on that every 18 months or so. Right now, I am back
in black, as you can see (100% opaque black terms with green
forecolour). Firefox is taking up so much CPU that I cannot afford the
transparency right now. ;)

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Cheers,
Josh