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Re: Please help me choose a window manager

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notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:
> On 2016-04-13, root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:
> 
>> I would appreciate any suggestion for a solution using a more modern window
>> manager. I really want to avoid a solution that involves multiple clicks to
>> switch between functions.
> 
> I always do a full load when installing Slackware.  This includes KDE,
> which I seldom use.  Instead, I use fluxbox.  FB menus are easily
> customized tweaking plain text files and many of FBs menu choices
> already include existing KDE programs.  Not all.  Newer KDE apps, like
> gwenview and okular, must be added.  Trivial, even fer me.  ;)
> 
> Still, FB is painfully minimalist and those KDE pains, oh-so-nasty and
> newpuke, do not even boot when opening fluxbox.  Have yer cake and eat
> it, too!
> 
> BTW, my system is 32-bit and I've not fiddled with anything 64-bit.
> 
> nb  

Thanks for responding. I will try fluxbox, but there seems to be
significant learning problems getting anything started.

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Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 16:42 +0000
  Re: Please help me choose a window manager notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2016-04-13 17:10 +0000
    Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 17:53 +0000
      Re: Please help me choose a window manager notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2016-04-13 18:24 +0000
        Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 20:20 +0000
          Re: Please help me choose a window manager notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2016-04-13 20:42 +0000
          Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 21:31 +0000
            Re: Please help me choose a window manager notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2016-04-13 23:29 +0000
  Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 17:26 +0000
    Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 19:01 +0000
      Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 21:25 +0000
        Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 21:57 +0000
          Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 22:41 +0000
            Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 22:40 +0000
            Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 01:20 +0000
          Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 22:39 +0000
            Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 01:28 +0000
              Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 03:13 +0000
                Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-14 11:56 +0000
      Re: Please help me choose a window manager Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-14 05:34 +0000
  Re: Please help me choose a window manager Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-14 01:50 +0000
    Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 03:20 +0000
  Re: Please help me choose a window manager JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-14 07:02 +0000
    Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 14:45 +0000
      Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-14 16:28 +0000
        Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 17:31 +0000

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