Window managers
Posted By matt on June 7, 2009
So, I added the OpenGeu repositories to my list and grabbed E17. It shows promise, but isn’t quite there yet.
- Segfaulted about once every half hour.
- Slower than XFCE.
- Lacked a system tray applet (like, for nm-applet to live in).
Some of this may be the OpenGeu build, some of it may be the fact that it is just barely out of alpha.
Anyway, I played with it for about three hours last night, got it mostly configured, and in the end, it wasn’t ready for prime time.
I may have a look at OpenBox (running it under Gnome, since it is just a WM and doesn’t try to be a full desktop environment).
Of course, the whole point to this is to actually find something which is not broken, like Xfce now is under Jaunty. See, I have this nagging fear that this stacking order is what the XFCE guys actually want and they won’t fix it.
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