Window Mangers :: What's Your Favorite & Why



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Easily accessible icons is desirable for drag-n-drop.

I agree, but look at how many drag-and-drop interfaces open application windows full-screen. Especially the early ones when monitors were neither the size nor resolution needed to open multiple views in one screen. A lot of the "common interface" stuff is still stuck in the '80s and '90s with a presumption that the desktop is primarily used only when nothing else is running -- and on only one desktop.
I think my favorite so far is fluxbox but I really haven't tried many others.  What I like is the way the icon moves when single clicking to activate an app.  

I have been trying out 4.x with JWM and I have trouble with it.  The icon I dragged on the window will change color with a single click but I have to double click to get the app to run.
Since we're talking about design, I'll bring up the subject of the location of the WM taskbar/toolbar.  Having the controls at the top of the screen is easier to reach, esp. if you access them a lot.  Thoughts?

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What I like is the way the icon moves when single clicking to activate an app.  

I have been trying out 4.x with JWM and I have trouble with it.  The icon I dragged on the window will change color with a single click but I have to double click to get the app to run.
I think you're comparing xtdesktop to dfm (not the WM's)
u2musicmike:
The issue you raise isn't a difference in window managers, but a difference in the desktop icons. In DSL the icons are a separate program from the WM. Previous versions used Xtdesktop, but version 4 uses dfm. If you switched to Fluxbox in DSL 4 you'd see that the double-click behavior is still there.
> ... Fluxbox (causes) development issues...
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> ... flwm uses fltk, so it looks consistent with our Lua/Fltk programs.

Because Fluxbox has been the default, my guess is that many users fall in love with it.  They'd like any replacement that functions similarly, flwm does sound like a good choice - I vote for it.
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