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Killing Clutter With The Antidesktop

Posted by timothy on from the your-brain-is-your-panel dept.

Espectr0 writes "Hate window managers? Cannot live without one? Well, you can, kind of. A Freshmeat editorial called 'The Antidesktop' talks about how you can get rid of flashy, bloaty window managers without loosing functionality." It depends on how many tasks you want to keep track of in your head, too.

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  1. way OT, but Karma is cheap by slow_flight · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Another very common one is 'moot' vs. 'mute.'

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    1. Re:way OT, but Karma is cheap by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      And effected and affected.

    2. Re:way OT, but Karma is cheap by sqlrob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      moot is correct.

      moot = not relevant any longer
      mute = quiet, unable to make sound

    3. Re:way OT, but Karma is cheap by Verteiron · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      That is a pun or play on words, and you should be sentenced to public flogging for that. Mute point.. arggg...

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  2. Apparently not just for the *ix crowd... by theendlessnow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Looks like the boyz from Redmond know a good thing when they see it!! (okay... it's not exactly the same thing... )
    http://24.42.144.161/tsnet/dos.htm

  3. Re:Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 55 by Stephen+King · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, I'm not.

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  4. Re:Window Manager without the bloat (PDF based!!!) by ichimunki · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No, thank you!

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  5. Re:We need a good alternative to XFree86 by SCHecklerX · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How do you explain 60+fps in quake3 on my Athlon at home then? KDE/Gnome == bloat. Windowmaker, otoh, is very snappy. Need drag/drop filemanager? Try out Rox-Filer. There is no reason for crap like nautilus to even exist. It's bloated useless crap.

  6. Re:Window Manager without the bloat (PDF based!!!) by toupsie · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    No, thank you!

    You're welcome!

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