Re: [tlug] Desktop Wars Query

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:17:24AM +0900, Josh Glover wrote:
> 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.

Hrrm, I was probably unclear.  XFCE has a thing (I've forgotten the
name, I don't have an XFCE desktop handy) to configure keyboard
shortcuts through a GUI.  However, it wasn't doing what I expected.
This was some time ago.  I was referring to XFCE, not openbox. 


> 
> >I can see Josh, who is comfortable with emacs, finding openbox's
> >keybindings a breeze,
> 
> Whatever are you insinuating?

My admiration for you emacs users.  To return to your paragraph, what I
meant was that editing the openbox rc keybindings seemed to require a
lot more typing than fluxbox keybindings.  I too, when I briefly played
with openbox, edited them directly. 

> 
> 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.

Well that's my point.  I feel it's easier for me to do that with
fluxbox.  

There are a couple of other similar ones, weewm and evilwm, where
keybindings are equally simple--each one was lacking something though
I've forgotten what--one of them had a limited amount of keybindings
when I tried it--that is, if I had 25 different bindings, only the first
24 worked, or something like that. 


> 
> 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. ;)

Every once in awhile, I feel that I've hit upon the perfect background
image/foreground text color to make it work, but then, after a month, my
eyes start hurting again.  Aging eyes, as I said. 

As for the slit (I think I've snipped that part of your email) you can
compile it without--it doesn't show anyway, unless you have a
windowmaker style docapp. 


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