csj wrote: ... > Which brings me to my favorite lite-wm peeve. Why do most of them > lack a persistent menu/taskbar? Take Blackbox (a favorite from the > posts I have read). To open a new app you have to click at the > desktop (or is there some abstruse keyboard shortcut?) to bring up > the app-ropriate menu The problem: how do you click at the desktop > when you have a maximized app filling the screen? Ditto for > WindowMaker (though I have found out there's a keyboard shortcut). > > Here's one problem the Windows folks have solved pretty well. A > menu/taskbar that lets you launch apps and Amazon through them.
fvwm can be configured to do almost everything - you can have keyboard shortcuts, panel (with icon manager, launch menu, launch buttons, almost any X application swallowed (I wouldn't recommend swallowing staroffice though:-) etc...) etc... the only problem is that I still do not know the full functionality of fvwm:-) the configuration is via config file(s) mostly but there is already a fairly sophisticated theme engine (you can change different parts separately, e.g. change window decorations look but not keyboard shortcuts etc.) ready for next version (usable but beta)... erik