On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 19:28, Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:10:05PM +0000, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 12:14, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +0000, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > [snip] > > > with it. I tried windowmaker for about a day and then came across xfce and > > > xfwm (www.xfce.org). Try it: I'm sure you'll like it. > > > > > > Have fun. > > I'm trying it now. The overall impression is nice but there are some > > real oddities. > > > > 1. I can't change the default buttons. > > Really? .xfce/xfce3rc allows you to set all the buttons you want. (remove > the bak file when you're editing this, or edit it from the console). You can > do it non-manually too: just right click on the icon.
Sorry. I wrote that email too soon. Now I've got the hang of xfce and I really like it. I have found the documentation to be obscure to the point of being stupid. For example, it has the help system set up to use Netscape. Teh documentation informally suggests that using dillo makes it really fly. It says what you need to change in the Modules scetion to enable this. But it doesn't say what document the modules section is in so after all the reading of documentation you're left where you started. I suppose this is because the developer wants to discourage people attacking the rc files with vi but it's a pain. However, overall its sufficiently lovely and zippy to forgive all that. Slightly OT, I wonder am I losing anything in terms of functionality or performance by running Evolution Galeon and other gnom-ish apps under XFCE as opposed to under Gnome proper? >
