S> As far as GUIs go, why not stick with a desktop manager? Windowmaker changed
S> since I started using Linux over 10 years ago. Now that I thi
Hasn't it crashed on you, though? Many of my friends and myself used
Windowmaker religiously for about 5 years, when the rest of the window
manager scene was so rapidly changing, ~2000-2005, and it crashed about
once per week for heavy users.
Pretty frustrating when you had like 90 terminals and windows open
across 8 workspaces.
It was actually revived (author came back from wherever he was hiding?
or somebody actually got the access needed to ontinue the project, I
forget) and some of these bugfixes were resolved -- but theres still
plenty in there. Just as recently as 2011 I was able to reproduce some
pretty bad bugs in their keyboard binding section and customizable menu section
of the preferences app.
Sadly, the whole thing has inspired this objective-c "etoli"(spelling?)
thing, using gorm as the lead IDE, to develop a whole OSX-like
ecosystem -- and the saddest part of it all, windowmaker in of itself
doesn't use any of the cocoa-replacement libraries or even the
objective-c language, but is the only
afterstep/nextstep/osx-like-looking project thats fully complete.
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