[Bendug] Wallpaper

[Tim Howe]

I like it very much.  It's on my desktop now.  I'm thinking of moving to Enlightenment at home, and I may use it as the basis for a theme.

I'm having a lot of trouble finding a window manager I want to stick with.  I like the simplicity of Blackbox, but it didn't have support for some things I wanted (gnome for starters), so I tried OpenBox which I liked a lot, but when they moved to version three it was an all new code base with some great features, but some great big bugs and slowdowns too....  The sloppy focus slowness finally got on my nerves.  Fluxbox is cool, but it has some bugs in app launching and theming that irk me.  I stuck with xfce4 for a while, and really liked it, but it simply isn't stable (yet?).  FVWM2 comes with OpenBSD, but the version that is in there by default is so old (the license changed after that).  I tried a newer version, but I found the Num-Lock bug to be too much for me to take.  WindowMaker used to be a favorite of mine, but it seems to completely hose up its config files after a while...  Maybe this has been fixed, but the way you have to clutter your desktop in WM turns me off.  I've read up a little on Enlightenment and it sounds promising, so I may give it a go.

At work I still use the OpenBox 2 branch, which is awesome but aging.  I want my home machine to be more fun.

KDE is just too big for me.  I find it distracting.  I may try Metacity/Gnome soon, but its stability on non-linux platforms is still questionable.  I want simple, fast, and stable.  TWM?  Maybe but it looks ugly.  What do you guys use and why?

--TimH

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:02:40 -0700
Mark Turner <amerine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys, got up early this morning. Was bored so i took one of Pauls
> alaska photos and made a wallpaper.
> 
> http://shweet.bendug.org/~mark/wallpaper.jpg
> -- 
> 
> -MarkTurner-
> amerine at gmail.com