window manager

Enlightenment fun...

After 1 year of ubuntu + gnome desktops I switched back to my old 'love': enlightenment! Well, actually my first love was fluxbox. Pro's for me:

  • It's a window manager, not a bloated desktop environment
  • It's FULLY customisable
  • It's lightweight (resource-friendly)
  • It's FUN
  • ...

So, why enlightenment?

Well enlightenment (or e16, the old version :-)) has all fluxbox has to offer + nicer features. These are that one can use a desktop pager with LIVE UPDATING screenshots, this is quite nice compared to a pager that shows you these plain old square boxes. And also the iconbox (where your minimized applications live) supports icons that are actually screenshots of the window you minimized)

What does all this look like?

Some screenshots:

Debian + Enlightenment Screenshot 1

Debian + Enlightenment Screenshot 2

Debian + Enlightenment Screenshot 3

P.S. The bar at the top is conky with own_window set to true and some transparency.

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