[arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

Samuel Baldwin shardz4217 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 15:52:11 EDT 2009


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Andrei Thorp<garoth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of the best ones now seem to be:
>
>  - Xmonad
>  - Wmii
>  - Awesome WM (My personal favourite which comes with a run prompt,
> menus, and notifications built in)

dwm[0] is a great place to start as well, especially if you're
familiar with C and can patch it to your liking. The defaults are
perfectly fine (besides colours), though, and once you get your head
around tag-based window management, it's all you'll ever want.

With dmenu, of course.

[0] http://dwm.suckless.org/
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Samuel 'Shardz' Baldwin - staticfree.info/~samuel


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