Good grief! so many choices and desktops...so little time!
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Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 1299563
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 03:19:01 +0800,Joe wrote:
>
> > may I know why each of you like the window manager of your
> >choice?
> >Just to gather some points on the highpoints of each window manager.
> >
> ===================
> Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:29:05
>
> its the 4th there already?
>
> Well Joe I have a P-166 with 24m ram...Kde runs well, but I thought a
> slimmer package might run even better, so I searched through Ice ,
> wmaker, FVwm etc, I don't have blkbox on this MDK 6.1
>
> I tried enlightenment and thought it was pretty good but it caused a
> lot of unexplainable anomalies and when it made a segfault I scotched
> it for good...
>
> Then I found afterstep and the flowers started to bloom on
> this love affair, it has many really nice features...really good
> controllability with copies of the files in your home directory where
> you can butcher them at will, and if all goes wrong..just copy in
> another default file and start over.
>
> I have ver 1.8.1 that will do backgrounds in jpg, you can make
> multiple copies of the Wharf (dock) to put running programs and
> buttons to call other tricks.. it will manufacture a theme at the push
> of a button and make a tar.gz in your themes folder, with any setup
> you have rigged...it will run themes made for ver 1.7.111....I have
> been disassembling other themes and using the parts....it does
> transparency...makes lovely menues...you can have multiple
> pagers......On and on he babbles........
>
> It will run KFM with all the kde file system and the kde icons
> and run some gnome stuff also...havent messed with that much as I like
> the kde stuff... I will though eventually.....
>
> You can run the aterms with transparency and cut off all the
> frames so the writing appears to be on the background picture...of
> course this is bound to fatten it up ,... I will lose the very thing I
> chose this WM for, but it is quite fun to play with...there is a
> mailing list for it ,and a website with pointers to sound files themes
> etc...
>
> I am fixing to build a more capable computer here, but I will
> probably run afterstep a lot even still.
>
> Give it a roll
> Olly P
> Biloxi
> Mississippi
>
>
