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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I've found... by craenor · 2003-06-01 05:29 · Score: 5, Funny

That most dedicated Linux users are really good at managing to minimilize windows...and windows users...
usability by kervel · 2003-06-01 05:30 · Score: 5, Funny

"You can use the mouse to manipulate windows either by click/dragging the 1 pixel border"

hm, that must be fun on a 1600x1200 screen (okay okay, you can use alt too)
Evil Bit as well by diablobsb · 2003-06-01 05:49 · Score: 5, Funny

And if you use X over the net, this WM properly implements the evil bit.

Btw : I tought the EvilWM was the one used in XP
will they have copyright issues for that?

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