On Thursday 29 October 2009 05:43:37 am Pit Suetterlin wrote:
Hi David,
First, thanks for ponting me at e16. In fact, this is the second time now that I switch my window manager(*): In 94 I switched from tvtwm to fvwm, and now finally I found something that is interesting enough to leave fvwm (no, neither GNOME or KDE are my style).
I know what you mean. I just stumbled across it recently and I love it. No training wheels!
I think I must have had a look at it earlier, as enlightenment is around almost as long as fvwm, but probably the first versions were far behind it so I forgot about it....
I have 2 desktops with my desktop "areas" laid out in a 4x1 grid. So the result of having two desktops makes 8 desktop areas (that you would normally just call desktops). The config is (desktop 1 on top, dt2 on the bottom):
A question to this: What do you use two desktops for? In particular, what's the advantage over having one desktop separated in 4x2 areas?
Well -- I don't know. The setup came with 2 cubes. I am more of a linear thinker. The link around the compiz cube or cylinder works fine, so I just flattened the original 2 cubes into 4-"area strips" and put one on top of the other. Now my desktop flow is linear left to right. As one area gets too cluttered or if I want to drop the two sessions of kate to another area, I can, very easily. So no deep mystery here, I just kinda-like-it :P
As I see a lot of epplets(?) in your upper right corner: Do you know gkrellm?
Yes, and I like gkrellm a lot. But I figured that if I was going to get to know the desktop, I might as well make use of the epplets to see what they were all about before pulling out the 3rd party tools. I hate repeating myself, but both e16 and e17 are way cool desktops!
Cheers,
Pit
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org