Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > I realize that a lot of focus is being spent on JDS 3/gnome, and that > this is largely a good thing for the end user. > > However, I am interested, also, in having a "lightweight" desktop > environment, suitable for use by system administrators to access gui > tools on machines that are otherwise not normally used as a desktop. > (Think of an NFS server somewhere. It is useful to be able to run smc > and such tools, without paying the full price of Gnome.) > > The requirements for such an environment would not be dissimilar to > those required for graphical suninstall -- a basic window manager like > mwm or dtwm would be adequate. I'd be even happier if we got something > like xfce4, which was open source, into such as an environment (but then > again, I use xfce4 on my primary desktop). > > Yes, I know about twm. But to anyone who has not used it before, it is > arcane and unfamiliar. (The initial window placement policy is likely > to be particularly unnerving to anyone coming from a Windows or > Macintosh -- or even recent UNIX desktop -- environment.
I would not suggest "twm" alone... but there is "xsm" (the X11 session manager) which would be much more usefull in this case since it wrapps twm&co. with session management (including the feature to snapshot sessions with names and select one of the saved sessions at login) ... something which is "gone" from most modern desktops... ;-( Anyway... a lightwheight desktop would be very welcome... :-) ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
