[wellylug] fluxbox-0.9.x (was Ubuntu)

[David Antliff]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Ian Sterling wrote:
> The biggest problem with 0.1.14 is the FUGLY tabs.  Horrible things
> them.  The integrated tabs of 0.9.x is where it's at. ;)

I quite liked them actually because they were always a constant width. The
integrated-with-the-title-bar tabs change width depending on the number of
grouped windows, making the Nth window a slightly trickier shot with
the mouse. Same thing happens with the icon bar at the bottom. However
this did lead me to set up an extremely usable set of keyboard shortcuts
for window navigation - I do admit 0.9.x does that very well.

> And, coincidentally, it's the stability of the 0.9.x series that's the
> reason I'm using flux instead of PekWM.

I don't know about PekWM but I agree with the stability - I haven't had
fluxbox version-anything crash on me in months.

My only outstanding problems with fluxbox-0.9.10 are broken support for
pagers (WM_STATE broken, fixed in CVS, waiting for 0.9.11) and
broken-by-design window movement policy where (try it and see) you have to
make sure your mouse is completely motionless before trying to click on an
inactive tab otherwise you end up inadvertently dragging a window
elsewhere.  Keyboard shortcuts to the rescue with this one too.

I'm not impressed with the anti-aliased menu - useless gimmick AFAIAC.
Scripting (a la Kahakai) would be nice but I can do most if not all via
external scripts anyway.

-- 
David.