Bye bye ion3

I just decided to move away from ion3. It was bothering me too much, and getting in the way of things that needed to be done. Back in the days with Enlightenment, I had my system configured so that new windows would, by default, not overlap with the one that currently has the focus, and that new windows would never get the focus. Ion3 does none of those; new windows receive the focus and appear in the currently-active frame, thereby overlapping whatever was active in that frame already.

I've accidentally hit "OK" too soon on an ssh-agent window once or twice because of that. Which is bad, very bad.

There were more annoyances. The frames, and the fact that a window cannot resize itself does have its advantages, but it certainly does have its disadvantages as well; I found that I had to move windows around all the time when they weren't terminal windows. If the idea of switching to ion3 was to avoid having to move around windows all the time, then it failed. Horribly.

So what I needed was a window manager that, by default, does not overlap windows or give out the focus to new windows; that allows me to move around using the keyboard only (and not the mouse); that is not too heavy; and that would allow me to configure shortcut keys for starting common applications (such as an x-terminal-emulator).

I've switched to icewm for the time being. Not sure it supports all those features, but most of them seem to be in order. Which is good. The docs can wait for tonight...