On 16 Jan 2002 00:22:43 +0100 Timo --Blazko-- Boewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i am a GNOME user and mostly used sawfish and enlightenment as window > managers so far. However, i am still quite disatisfied with them, cos > they have little but disturbing behaviours. They often place windows out > of the screen some bit or do not remeber them right, especially for > non-gnome apps like mozilla. i tweaked the wm's options a lot, reset to > defaults, reinstalled'em, but i am quite unlucky. Then i installed > window maker, which also works not the way i like (misplacing windows, i > cannot remove the icons that hinder me from taking applications the > whole screen etc.). > > So far, i have found only two window managers that i am completely > content with: > > -XFWM (from XFCE) > -the KDE WM > > However - although i often gave it a try - some standard KDE apps do not > work very stable, so i always got back to GNOME. > After a long speech, my questions: > > -do you have similar experiences with sawfish, enlightenment or window > maker? > -how can is use the XFWM only (means: no XFCE) for GNOME? The XFCE panel > always comes and i cannot choose XFWM from the GNOME Control Center. > > Any help is very appreciated, thank you, Not an answer. Have your tried IceWM? It comes in 2 1/2 flavors: -lite, -gnome and -experimental (with anti-aliasing). It has KDE support, but the menu layout is a somewhat horrible when compared to the menus for Gnome.
