Waimea take 2

Just installed Waimea. I thought Window Maker was fast. Waimea is
way faster. Configuration is done by hand though :-( From the
webpage:

The design goal for waimea is to create the most
efficient desktop working environment available. To achieve this
waimea is a fast and highly customizable virtual multiple desktop
window manager. It has a very advanced style engine with features
like blackbox style support, pixmap style support and transparent
textures. Text can be rendered double buffered using both X core
fonts and Xft fonts. Waimea also includes a fast lightweight menu
system with dynamic menus support. The built in action
configuration system makes waimea the most configurable window
manager available. It allows the user to set up waimea to behave as
any other window manager or in new ways never before
possible.

This is true. Every action is described in a text file so you can
change everything in Waimea. Example:

DEF defaultAllWindows {
   Raise                  : ButtonPress = Button1 & Mod1Mask,
   StartOpaqueMove        : ButtonPress = Button1 & Mod1Mask,
   StartOpaqueResizeRight : ButtonPress = Button3 & Mod1Mask,
   Lower                  : ButtonPress = Button2 & Mod1Mask,
   EndMoveResize          : ButtonRelease = Button1 & MoveResizeMask,
   EndMoveResize          : ButtonRelease = Button3 & MoveResizeMask
}

There is even a href="http://130.239.134.83/cgi-bin/waimea/waimeaac.pl?mode=top10">top
10 (well only top 5 at the moment) with all the favourite
action files.

I like it :-)

From href="http://www.andrerestivo.com/links/linkdetail.php?id=201">www.andrerestivo.com.



Patterns for Personal Web Sites

This one was pointed to me by href="http://blog.portugalmail.pt/K/archive/000153.html#000153">Sergio.
Imagine the usual href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201633612/andrerestiv04-21">
Design Paterns but this time applied to the web in the
following subjects:

  • Content
  • Structure
  • Time
  • Navigation
  • Technology

Just like Design Patterns almost everything listed is rather
intuitive but giving proper names to each of these patterns can
make all the difference. Besides we can always learn something new.

From href="http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/index.html">
www.rdrop.com.



Waimea

I’m normally not very keen to change from href="http://www.windowmaker.org/">my window manager of choice.
Waimea is the first one to make me consider giving it a try. Waimea
seems to be as simple as Window Maker but the screenshots make it
seem a bit nicer. If only it is able to use WM applets and if I can
configure shortcuts to play with windows and workspaces I might get
myself a new Window Manager.

From www.waimea.org.