Hi Boyd, I have used ratpoison then moved to ion3. I found ratpoison was really good to use but there were some short-comings such as difficulty in reading a window title because I was always pressing Ctrl-T,A to read the title of an xterm window showing the progress of an emerge. I also found the lack of support for dockable applications a problem. However, ratpoison is perfect for a MythTV box.
I found ion3 was just as efficient as ratpoison, however, ion3 has support for dockable applications, there is also the scratchpad and floating workspace. There are scripts that you can use with ion3 to taler ion3 to one's liking. Like for example, "detach.lua" which is great because it gives you the ability to have floating screens on the same screen as the paneled windows. I recommend that the latest masked version of ion3 be used, as I have not found any problems with these versions. I also find that although the documentation is not that good with ion3, the support through the mailing list is great. Post a question and you will get an answer within a day. Regards L1th10n On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:18 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. > I've already emerged them, but I'd like to have them available as > separate sessions when I log in, and possibly migrate to one of them > as default (or only) session available. > > I've only used KDE and Gnome in the past, and they are very polished, > at least in the aspect that they automatically are added as > alternative sessions. I know we have some alternative window manager > users around, so I figured this would be the best place to ask how to > set these alternative window managers up in Gentoo. > > I have a couple of boxen, one that uses gdm and one that uses kdm. > It would be nice if the instructions were portable between both of > these X login managers, but I'm fairly confident that I can use > instructions for either one to set up the other. > > For anyone interested in what WMs I'm trying out: > x11-wm/ratpoison > x11-wm/ion3 > x11-wm/wmii > > I also might try out StumpWM at some point, but I couldn't find an > ebuild for it in the current portage tree. > > I'm a big fan of both Lisp and GNU-Screen, so these window managers > intrigued me. > > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
