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Date:      Sat, 6 Aug 2011 13:47:49 -0400
From:      Rod Person <rodperson@rodperson.com>
To:        Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alternative windowmanagers
Message-ID:  <20110806134749.1efef285.rodperson@rodperson.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110806142639.GB48611@guilt.hydra>
References:  <20110805191214.GA19848@kar.user-mode.org> <20110805190825.d2cf7f06.rodperson@rodperson.com> <20110806015652.GB45455@guilt.hydra> <CAGu_qiPssFewdGFMeodZXELQDGTf9UfhcZG1=HEv%2B3KZgna%2BEQ@mail.gmail.com> <20110806142639.GB48611@guilt.hydra>

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On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 08:26:39 -0600
Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, but why?  I went with OpenBox, because it seemed like it was
> > under current development, and Fluxbox is stagnant, otherwise, I
> > didn't see much difference.  But I do find it curious that so many
> > on this thread are recommending Fluxbox, and almost no one
> > OpenBox.  What would be the reason?
> 
> Fluxbox supports window tabbing.  Last I checked, OpenBox did not.  In
> fact, amongst the 'box window managers, window tabbing is pretty much
> the killer feature.
> 
> That, and it has a better license than OpenBox.

I'll agree that Fluxbox license is better. But I find OpenBox more responsive and
it seem to just look better to me. I'm not a fan of tabbing so that doesn't matter to me. I've been using Openbox as my WM for 4 or 5 years, before that it was Fluxbox.
-- 
Rod Person
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