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I know it's a bit old, but if you're into this kind of things give WindowMaker a try. I have a 12 years laptop and it's the only window manager that runs on it.
by tangue 14y ago
I know it's a bit old, but if you're into this kind of things give WindowMaker a try. I have a 12 years laptop and it's the only window manager that runs on it. (and it's quite a good experience IMHO)
- kunai 14y agoI love WindowMaker; it has to be one of the best window managers for productivity. The workflow is just so natural, and it's so easy to use.
- tangue 14y agoLinux would have been on par with OSX if all those ressources wasted on Gnome had been focused on GNUstep.
- kunai 14y agoWork is actually being done about it. See the Etoile project: http://etoileos.com/ http://etoileos.com/ But I agree, GNUstep is so much better than GNOME/GTK, both as a development environment and as a working environment. I wish there were more developers working on the project; development is so slow. This isn't like Hurd (an unnecessary piece of software that really is pointless); GNUstep really is a genius piece of software.
- asveikau 14y agoI came on here to complain that wmaker isn't on this list. IMO it's the best WM for X. As for the rest of GNUstep, at various points during the 2000s decade I'd been interested in GNUstep, developed a little bit with it, used to use apps like GNUMail, etc. And it's definitely a cool project. But I have to say it's by no means a lightweight toolkit. It seemed pretty sluggish for the entirety of the time I used it. Maybe it's fast now that hardware is ridiculous. But I think if WindowMaker actually used GNUstep's AppKit (it does not), it would be a lot more sluggish than it is, and that would make it pretty bad. I've used wmaker since the 90s and it's never felt like a bottleneck. Can't say the same about the rest of GNUstep.