Some software

[dmaze]

I might have found a reasonable answer to my ongoing search for a sane desktop environment. Right now, on Debian/unstable, I'm running Waimea as a window manager. It's a Blackbox derivative ("what isn't?") that looks like it's trying to capture the look of a simple window manager with "pretty" features like pseudotransparent window decorations and Xft font support. rxvt-unicode is an rxvt-based terminal emulator with pretty much the same functionality. The whole thing is a little rough around the edges, but promising: I can change keybindings for the window manager in a text file, but then I need to restart it, which takes a while, ruins my vt history, and is generally harsh for testing, for example. Still, I was able to set things up the way fvwm-themes works, mostly, including the funky xterm color scheme (backed by X resources).

I was able to build rxvt-unicode on an oldish Red Hat machine pretty painlessly, though without Xft support. Waimea just depends on too much stuff to usefully build from source. Installing it on Athena might be doable, though, and would help fix the pain I'm currently in.

(I wonder what it means that my backgrounds on both machines are from Ashmont station.)