From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Poll: best hackable window manager or DE for Emacs-loving freedom activists Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 03:00:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87wnlmoxf0.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87fssbiicx.fsf@disroot.org> <87pmrfbh27.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26693"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:UU0KMIP3XmBqGYceiiw08fWAnIU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 06 03:06:25 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mjB69-0006jg-KT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 03:06:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34720 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjB67-0002iZ-Rw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2021 22:06:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38998) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjB4v-0002hc-Fu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2021 22:05:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:39610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjB4p-0000KS-W5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2021 22:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mjB4o-0004so-61 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 03:05:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134392 Archived-At: Po Lu wrote: >> I have now reconsidered---I want a hackable keyboard-driven >> WM or DE. I'll keep GNOME installed as plan B for >> difficulties with the hacker WM. Also, once in a while >> I will use GNOME just to preserve useful knowledge for >> assisting unskilled users. > > Is there any particular reason GNOME doesn't suit your > needs? GNOME is hackable, through shell extensions and also > Mutter plugins, is part of the GNU project, and is in my > experience more solid than most of the alternatives you > mentioned in your poll. GNOME is a world, it cannot be compared with e.g. openbsd-cwm which is a to-the-point window manager. So one list for DEs and one for WMs, please ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal