On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:08:05AM +0100, Alex Polite wrote:
> 1) Must be able to "maximize window to available space" a la
> enlightenment.
I don't know anything that has *that*, save for E itself and probably one
of the ion-type window managers (which do it by definition). That would be
an interesting idea to wedge into something like Blackbox or Openbox, both
of which support a smart-placement algorithm that tries to place a window
in a non-overlapping spot when it first maps (although Openbox is far
better at it). What you describe would be extending that same algorithm to
a resize operation.
I'll point it out to the Openbox people.
> 2) Must support multiple sequence key bindings a la emacs.
Blackbox loses here, as its key-binding utility (bbkeys) doesn't support
chaining at all yet. It will in its next version, according to the author.
Openbox's utility (epistrophy) does right now, like so:
# ~/.openbox/epistrc 103102
options {
ChainTimeout 2500;
stackedCycling true;
stackedCyclingRaise true;
}
# Windows
Mod4-x {
t toggleOmnipresent;
s toggleShade;
m toggleMaximizeFull;
v toggleMaximizeVertical;
h toggleMaximizeHorizontal;
d toggleDecorations;
i iconify;
x close;
n nextWindow;
p prevWindow;
}
Epistrophy is a NETWM keygrabber, so it would also work with the current
CVS Blackbox.
> 3) Must be fast.
Then you definately want something along the lines of Blackbox/Openbox.
Speed is a primary design goal of Blackbox, and the Openbox fork hasn't
given that up. :)
I've not seen anything much faster except for stuff like aewm, which fails
#1 and #2 bigtime.
> 4) Must be faster.
See #3. :)
Personally, I'd recommend Openbox. It has all of what you want, save parts
of #1. It takes Blackbox and extends it to add stuff like support for AA,
customizable buttons, and more orthagonal style element support.
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