i have been using archlinux for a close to a decade (!!!) now on all the machines that i have, from a desktop machine, to a laptop, to an arm device (for tinkering). my window-manager of choice...
i have been using archlinux for a close to a decade (!!!) now on all the machines that i have, from a desktop machine, to a laptop, to an arm device (for tinkering). my window-manager of choice (don't use a DE, most of them are generally too bloated for my needs) is fvwm2 :) which i have been using for as long as a i can remember, and heavily customized.
looks something like this a couple of points about the what you see here:
on the top-left side you would see a 3x3 grid (pages), that is the fvwm-desktop. i can place windows in any of them. and you can have as many desktops as you want. most of the pages/desktop navigation happens via keyboard. this also includes window movement to different pages/desktops, window-resize (via 'ctrl-,') etc. etc.
inside each page, there are couple of rectangular icons which kind of show the outline of the window. putting the mouse on any of the icons, shows what exactly it refers to.
on the left margin (below the desktop) you would see a bunch of thumbnails/icons, these are the icons of applications that have been minimized. thumbnails are generated on the fly, capturing current window snapshot. when i move mouse over them i get a cool highlighting effect as well.
another slightly (?) idiosyncratic aspect of the setup is the window title-bar which is placed horizontally rather than the canonical vertical placement. i figured, that vertical-monitor-real-estate is more precious than horizontal (monitors are getting wide-screen, in default disposition), and decided to go with this. on the title-bar the minimize/maximize/close/menu bitmaps were created by me, and seems to suit it just fine...
i have been using archlinux for a close to a decade (!!!) now on all the machines that i have, from a desktop machine, to a laptop, to an arm device (for tinkering). my window-manager of choice (don't use a DE, most of them are generally too bloated for my needs) is fvwm2 :) which i have been using for as long as a i can remember, and heavily customized.
looks something like this a couple of points about the what you see here:
on the top-left side you would see a 3x3 grid (pages), that is the fvwm-desktop. i can place windows in any of them. and you can have as many desktops as you want. most of the pages/desktop navigation happens via keyboard. this also includes window movement to different pages/desktops, window-resize (via 'ctrl-,') etc. etc.
inside each page, there are couple of rectangular icons which kind of show the outline of the window. putting the mouse on any of the icons, shows what exactly it refers to.
on the left margin (below the desktop) you would see a bunch of thumbnails/icons, these are the icons of applications that have been minimized. thumbnails are generated on the fly, capturing current window snapshot. when i move mouse over them i get a cool highlighting effect as well.
another slightly (?) idiosyncratic aspect of the setup is the window title-bar which is placed horizontally rather than the canonical vertical placement. i figured, that vertical-monitor-real-estate is more precious than horizontal (monitors are getting wide-screen, in default disposition), and decided to go with this. on the title-bar the minimize/maximize/close/menu bitmaps were created by me, and seems to suit it just fine...