On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:30:45 +0000
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You and me both Terry... I've adopted XFCE as my window manager of choice for 
> my 'processor challenged' laptop. It is considerably faster than KDE or 
> Gnome, prettier than ICEwm and easier to use than Enlightenment or Blackbox 
> IMO  (And the screen savers are quite funky)

same here. i only started to use xfce when the j2me emulator was not functioning with 
KDE and GNOME was too quirky for my taste. Xfce is now my default desktop here in the 
office.

> 
> Two downsides are that many of the links are not set up correctly, and for 
> some unexplained reason any 'X' application such as xterm is missing its 
> scroll bars. I could use kterm or somesuch instead, but that means loading QT 
> libraries etc which defeats the point of running a lightweight window manager.
> 

try aterm. i like it better than the konsole. its significantly faster and has 
scrollbars, the downside is that it doest support multiple terminals per window. but 
you cant have everything. *grin*

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> 
> derek
> 

ciao!

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