Scheme - anyone using the scwm window manager for X windows?

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anyone using the scwm window manager for X windows?

gavino

2007-02-07, 10:06 pm

seems

anyone tried it?

Richard J. Kissel

2007-02-09, 7:10 pm

I was using it for years and it was fine. Development seems to have
ceased on it so I sort of drifted away. I never did much with the
constraint language, which might have been pretty neat. If it got
popular again I'd probably go back to it. I ran it on Solaris and Linux
but I've switched to a machine using Gnome (at least until I can decide
on a simple window manager that I like better, i.e. almost anything :-)
I've been playing with dwm, which is really minimal, but might be a
little too funky.

-- Rick

Emilio Lopes

2007-02-10, 8:07 am

Richard J Kissel writes:

> I was using it for years and it was fine. Development seems to have
> ceased on it so I sort of drifted away. I never did much with the
> constraint language, which might have been pretty neat. If it got
> popular again I'd probably go back to it. I ran it on Solaris and Linux
> but I've switched to a machine using Gnome (at least until I can decide
> on a simple window manager that I like better, i.e. almost anything :-)
> I've been playing with dwm, which is really minimal, but might be a
> little too funky.

You could try Orion. From the Scsh home page:

Orion is a window manager for the X11 windowing system. Orion is
written in Scheme and accesses Xlib via the scx library for
scsh. Orion is in fact a family of window managers that can be
nested. This enables great flexibility and efficient handling of
X11 applications. Orion currently comes with four child window
managers:

* a conventional moving window manager
* a window manager for stacking windows in a frame
* a window manager for splitting windows horizontally and
vertically
* a work space manager

Orion also supports saving the window manager layout and programmatic
configuration.

The Orion distribution uses the scx library for scsh.

Check out the Orion Wiki for further information:

http://orion.elektrubadur.se/

--
Emílio C. Lopes
Munich, Germany

gavino

2007-02-12, 4:18 am

Im on icewm and switch from fluxbox to icewm because ice is so damn ez

Emilio Lopes

2007-02-12, 7:12 pm

gavino writes:

> Im on icewm and switch from fluxbox to icewm because ice is so damn ez

That's a coincidence! I was in a party this w

end and some *very*

guys (the kind that write killer web apps just for fun, you know)
in a corner were talking about window managers. I remember I was
pretty much irritated by the arrogant comment of one of them that
"icewm is for sissies"...

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