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I find myself quite comfortable using fluxbox, my one and only WM since I started messing around with GNU/Linux almost 5 years ago, but I recently stuble upon some comments about this very minimal (yet apparently incredibly powerful) (d)WM (where “d” stands for dynamic). It’s wmii.

I am curious and geek enough for being always looking for new things to experiment with, and I haven’t lost the occasion! It’s actually (right now) running on my Belial, and I must confess I’m quite impressed by its flexibility and it’s power. Seems like it’s 100% customizable, and only the status bar scriptable in bash is something that could conquer me forever.
I configured it in a very simple way from now (I’m just playing with it since yesterday evening…), but the possibilities seem quite huge, and I’ll be sure to explore it in the proper way.

But still, I think I won’t leave Fluxbox. Not now.
Why?
Essentially for two great reason:

• wmii lacks something that’s actually quite essential for me under fluxbox: the ability to recognize a window and remember its workspace (tag in wmii) and main settings (dimensions, position, whatever…),
• fluxbox has been my friend for a long time, while wmii needs to be studied more, I need to do an usability study on it.

Right now I will use Belial as a test bed for getting acquainted with wmii and I will see what is going to come out of my use of it. It seems my kind of cake, but I really need to get past the “new-toy” thing to see if it can suite me.

[In the meanwhile, here are the two scripts I'm using in my wmii-3/status to monitor the battery status and to fetch some WiFi infomation. The first is not from me, the second indeed is.]