On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:06:48 -0400 Kirtis Bakalarczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First off i'm using Mandrake 8.1 Standard > > KDE is pretty sluggish so i decided to change to a more light weight > window manager. So i downloaded and installed FVWM (on a side note, if > someone could recommend a better one that would be helpful.) > > Anyway FVWM installed fine so i restarted X and tried to log in with the > WM set to FVWM but it just starts up KDE like every other time. > > A little help? After seeing a reference to Fluxbox on this list, I'm using it now. It's about like Blackbox, but iconified apps get put into something of a "taskbar" (the toolbar). Also, Fluxbox uses tabs on its windows, so you can middle/3rd button-click on a tab, drag it to another window, and then you can switch back and forth by clicking on the tabs. Easily themes and customized like Blackbox. I've got a screenshot in my gallery (the first one in Linux screenshots): http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/screenshots/. (BTW, I no longer use the rox filer panel, I just added entries to the Fluxbox menu.) To log in using Fluxbox, I edited ~/.xinitrc and told it to start fluxbox. At the graphical login menu, I select "Default," which must read the .xinitrc file, because I didn't go through the trouble of adding Fluxbox to the login menu. I know what you mean about KDE being sluggish. On my AMD K62 @ 500mhz and 384MB RAM, it took about 20 seconds for KDE to start. Blackbox and Fluxbox take about 3 seconds. And, using ROX filer for when I prefer a gui for file operations is sooooooo much faster than konqueror. HTH, Todd -- Todd Slater 5:38pm up 2 days, 5:01, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.10, 0.05 Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. (Bertrand Russell)
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