At 04:38 PM 3/17/2001 -0600, Benjamin Sher wrote:
>Dear Michael and friends:
>No, in Mandrake, at the console type:
>startx Evolution
>and you'll get the Evolution window manager. It's also listed in the
>graphical login menu.
I am afraid I must agree with Michael. There is NO Evolution window
manager. Evolution
is a groupware app designed to be an Outlook killer. There IS an
enlightenment window manager
that comes with Mandrake. Enlightenment is a very very pretty window
manager, but it is
simply a window manager, there is no concept of "logging out" because there
is nothing to log
out of. It is not a GNOME or KDE still desktop (at least not yet, check
out www.enlightenment.org to
see what Rasterman has been doing in with this project.) In order to play
with enlightenment, ie kill
a session, add windows, run an app, add a dock, add the panel viewer, etc,
right click or left click on
the background. Clicking on the background brings up the two menus you can
use to customize
and navigate the window manager. It is a powerful window manager and given
some tweaking is jsut
as useful as GNOME or KDE, but it is not a standalone desktop
environment. It was the default
window manager for GNOME for a long time, but they recently switched to
sawfish.
A note about Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. That combo kills the running X server
instance, unless you have
the "Don't Zap" line commented out in the XF86Config. It not only will
work at runlevel 3 (drop you
back to a command line after a "startx"), it will also work at runlevel 5,
dropping you back to the
initial graphical login.
--
Matthew Micene
Systems Development Manager
Express Search Inc.
www.ExpressSearch.com
