> What are some prevailing opinions concerning the use of
> Sawfish as a window manager?
Sawfish rules, it's all I use anymore.
> as a GNU project it's programmable (or will be?). I'm a
> very-long-time emacs user and know elisp fairly well. I
> understand that Guile or some other Lisp-like language
> underpins Sawfish. This aspect of it is particularly
> appealing to me.
You'll love it! Sawfish is basically just an adapter between X and Lisp.
Out of the box, it has pretty much everything you need in a good
windowmanager, and anything else you want just whip up some lisp and it's
yours. It has the best keybinding mechanism of any window manager I've
seen, and there's nothing you can't customize. You can even load up
sawfish-client and talk lisp directly to the running window manager to try
things out before coding anything into your rc file.
> On the other hand, Sawfish is presently at version 0.36
That's quite old, I'm currently running 1.0.1 which looks like the latest
on their website.
> (presumably at least a little later on RH 7.2?), and at
> first stab (I'm running it now), seems to be lacking
> entirely some features I want and need, or at least
> that I haven't been able to locate readily. So maybe I
> should just wait patiently until things grow a bit.
Which features?
--Nick
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