Re: Window Manager for GNUstep

[Andreas Höschler]

Hallo all,

> > Well, I don't know if this is going to help, but I personally hate
> > WindowMaker!  I'm currently using a combination of a bunch of stuff 
> > that
> > work pretty well together.
>
> Still using WindowMaker here (only X11 Wm I've ever really used) and it
> works fine for us. Indeed it's the one I recommend to people comming to
> Unix for the first time. But I gbet the feeling it's niot being worked 
> on
> anymore, and there may come a time when it needs to be ditched.

I just tried enlightenment and am very dissapointed. I can reproduce 
the same problem here I have with Window Maker. Starting an CPU 
intensive operation in one application (e.g. generating some XML 
output; takes 10s) blocks the whole desktop. I cannot switch to another 
application until the operation has finished. :-(

Is this cooperative multi-tasking from the old MacOS 9/Windows 3.11 or 
what? Moreover, if I have AppA activated and on the way (with the 
mouse) from a window to the menu over the window of another application 
(no click performed), this application gets activated. I guess this 
should be a feature of enlightenment, but this is rather annoying on a 
GNUstep desktop. Is anyone actually using enlightenment with GNUstep?

I will go and give beryl a try, but I have not much hope that I get 
this compiled under Solaris. :-(

Regards,

  Andreas