EvilWM - Minimalist Window Manager

Posted by michael on Sunday June 1, 2003 @05:27AM from the good-name dept.

DasZweiten writes "Being a minimalist, I have run across a window manager by the name of EvilWM in which finally my standards have been completely met. Being an ex-fvwm addict, after the recent slashdot post about the ten year birthday of fvwm, I felt the need to share my overwhelming joy of my discovery of EvilWM with the rest of slashdot. The manager is small, efficient, beautifully coded, decorated with one pixel borders - all one needs or could ask for. The authors say it best on the EvilWM main site with "'Minimalist' here doesn't mean it's too bare to be usable - it just means it omits a lot of the stuff that make other window managers unusable." I frankly, could not have said it better myself. It lacks the unnecessary features, memory, and total bloating that most other window managers unfortunately contain. All of you die hard fvwm fans will love it. I'll never go back to anything else."

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Yeall, real nice... by JFMulder · 2003-06-01 05:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

... go on the website and look at the screenshot. Since when the title bar to move around a window is unecessary clutter?
Re:I don't understand this. by Talez · 2003-06-01 06:18 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Speaking of bloat. From the site:

Here is a screen shot for people that want that sort of thing. It's about 46k I'm afraid.

Worried about 46K for a screen shot? We're not using 14.4 modems in 1993 anymore. I'm sure most people's connections could download that file in under 10 seconds and a significat portion would do it in under one.