\_ [...] a window manager called SawFish.
\_ I'd read about the window manager in the past, but never bothered trying
\_ it since it was partially implemented in a variant of lisp and I suspected
\_ that it would be slow.
\_
\_ It's actually quite good. For me, it's faster than enlightenment, and
\_ is lacking some of enlightenment's bugs that were fairly annoying
\_ to me.
The one that prevented me from using the eyecandy window manager at
work was inability to chord ctrl-meta-shift-mod4 with the mouse keys.
Sure, if you like the bindings there, then it rocks. But when you
really want to say c-m-s-m4 button4 and have it pop resolutions for
you, the last time I checked, it couldn't do that. vtwm which I've
been using, well, since x11r3 days (*ahem*), supports arbitrary
mappings/chordings.... And at home, E was to expensive on my p120.
(Shhh, I know, I know.)
\_ Anyway, I recommend SawFish for those of you who like enlightenment,
\_ but are fed up with some of its bugs and/or slowness. (Upgrading
\_ to Gnome 1.2 is also recommended.)
sawfish rocks.
But I'm prejudiced, since my first 'real' programming language was
Scheme, a deritive (sp?) of Lisp. Besides the enherit coolness of
using (lisp) again, it's easily extendable. (Unlike vtwm, and
probably a host of others.) Um, sorry, 'extendable without
recompiling the main binary'.
The default release of sawfish (0.27.2 at time of typing) does not
have a resize mode that draws outlines they way I expect them
(perimiter of window + a cross from corner-corner). 10-20 lines of
easy lisp later...poof. It's in. It's configurable in the
configurator-bob.
On #sawfish someone mentioned that he'd really like to see the
technical mode for E ported. I had that mostly implemented in 1/2
hour. The finishing touches are being worked out RSN.
And because, just because, I'm likely to code an 'ellipitcal resizer'
where the corners of the window being resized/moved intersect an
ellipse.
All without touching the main binary.
Like emacs, but for window managers.
Oh, and it has a shell interface as well.
http://sawmill.sourceforge.net/
(sawfish was formerly called sawmill)
David
ps: the horror stories of paren use in Lisp are true. After my first
CS course, I could hit '(' and ')' 100% accuracy no looking. I had to
do a visual scan for the '9' and the '0' however.
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