Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 23:12:23 +1100 From: Jim Mock <jim@corp.au.triax.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WindowMaker Message-ID: <19990209231222.A28805@corp.au.triax.com> In-Reply-To: <19990209112130.17119.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902081417210.14869-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> <19990209112130.17119.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 at 21:21:29 +1000, Greg Black wrote: [snip..] > > Window Maker is not flawed in getting between desktops. > > If my customers tell me that it's flawed, then it is flawed. > End of discussion. > > > There is however no pager which may be what you're used to. > > Coming from AfterStep I was used to that and initially disliked > > the fact that Window Maker didn't have one as well. I've since > > found using a pager to be awkward. > > That's obviously personal preference. I'm used to using both > keys and mice for that (my preferred window manager is fvwm2 > which is good that way but is unfortunately broken under > FreeBSD-2.2.8) -- but my customers, who are the people I have to > please when I set up systems, want a pager. > [more snipped..] > For reasons that aren't important here, they want to use the > mouse rather than compound keyboard tricks. That's their > choice, but it all adds up to windowmaker not being a suitable > tool. I was just curious to see if it had perhaps adopted a > pager for this kind of user, because the rest of the program is > really very nice and would have been a good choice. I'm not > about to go badmouthing it because it doesn't do what these > people need, I was just curious about its current direction. > I don't know of anything planned in the development itself, but there's a dockapp pager (why not, everything else exists as a dockapp, even tetris =)) that you might find useful. You can get it from http://www.linuxbox.com/~bac/ I haven't tried compiling it, but I will in the morning, and if I can get it working, I'll submit a port of it. -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | The FreeBSD' zine : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsdzine.org/ : : FreeBSD: The Power To Serve | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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