mikas blog

Due to I missed the lecture of Daniel K. Gebhart on linuxdays in vienna I had to have a look at the window manager ion on my own. I think KDE is a really great desktop environment for computers with enough power, but what I was searching for is an alternative which is fast, small, keyboard-friendly and stable. Pekwm was the less sucking one but changing from stable to cvs version was pain, documentation is not really great and there still exist some unfixed bugs ;-(. So I’ll give ion a chance and after fixing some problems [euro- and umlaut-support in xterm, use $XBROWSER menu] it seems to work quite well.

The ressources of ion I used for checking out:
homepage of ion
ion-slides of dkg
ion-wiki

At least I’ll give ion a chance 8-)

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