On 5 March 2010 13:51, Andrew Benton <b3n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/03/10 13:11, Johnneylee Rollins wrote: >> Nothing would make me happier than a nice bit of openbox, or for a >> more bloated but nifty DE, LXDE. >> *drools* >> >> ~SpaceGhost >> > > Me too. I recommend openbox, lxpanel and rox-filer > > Andy > -- I'm obviously in the wrong place here - for people who don't use most of gnome or kde, surely xorg is just a place to run applications and xterms ?
In my own case, the current build is partially completed and I now have icewm and namoroka (ff-3.6). Actually, xterm is a lie - I symlink it to urxvt but the functionality is similar. An guess what - apart from the panel, I have no icons. When the build is complete (if it all works!) I'll have a load of av stuff, the gimp, and a few gnome apps (abiword, epiphany, evince, gnumeric, totem). I really don't understand the fascination with file managers (I use 'find' and 'ls', perhaps 'which' and 'locate'). Another example - once I've edited my photos, I don't need no applications to look at them: they are in directories and I can open the jpegs individually in a browser, or from an xterm I can use 'display' (ImageMagick) to show a batch of them. NB - I _do_ build fluxbox, but only to use it as an initial window manager (icewm needs gtk+). For me, it's just about usable, but so much less fulfilling than icewm. Maybe I should just crawl back under a rock :) ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
