Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

[lee]

Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:15:03 +0100
> lee wrote:
>
>> Think of fvwm: You may think it`s a "minimalistic" window manager.  It
>> is not, it`s actually the most powerful and most versatile WM I have
>> ever seen, and it`s easy to configure to do exactly what you want.
>
> No only that, but it works the same way all the time as long as you
> keep your same .fvwmrc files. Imagine that: You don't have to re-learn
> the user interface on every release.

Not only that, you only need to learn once how to set it up the way you
want it.

Now someone tell me how I get virtual desktops with gnome or kde to
which I can switch by just moving the mouse pointer over the edge of the
screen?  How do I get a pager as I have with fvwm with gnome or kde?
Where is the configuration file for defining my key bindings, menues,
window decorations ...?

I once tried a window manager that would show some sort of cubes when
you wanted to switch desktops.  It somehow required a huge amount of
resources to do that.  People were really excited about it.  I found
that it looks nice and totally gets into the way because I`d be looking
at those stupid cubes when I wanted to switch desktops and they won`t
really let me and were only one dimensional (i. e. you could turn them
left and right but not up and down or move several around on your screen
to pick a desktop from one of them) and served no purpose.  I forgot how
it was called ... compitz maybe?

With fvwm, I just move the mouse pointer over or press AltGr and an
arrow key, and I`m on the next desktop without any delays or something
getting into my way.  It even does a better job with tiling than i3
does: It just does it, without having you try to figure out how to get
your windows arranged and without the confusing containers which never
really do what you want, and I can have sticky floating windows which
you can`t have with i3 ...

Can gnome or kde do tiling?  With sticky floating windows?  I have that
on one of the virtual desktops for two seamonkey windows; almost
everything else is full screen.

Try full screen with gnome.  You can`t, you have to move and resize your
windows all the time and move them off half off-screen and they are
still in the way.  I hate that.  How can all these fancy "desktop
environments" be so incredibly far behind (a twenty year old window
manager)?


How did that go?  Fedora wants to lead the advancement of FOSS.  Then
why isn`t fvwm the default window manager?  It`s the most advanced one
you can get.  It`s perfect for Fedora.next.


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Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)