window manager follies,etc.
Greetings. As things now stand, I have potato on my Classic. Thanks again to all who offered advice on this. I have two questions at this point; which window manager is most happy with the 8bpp framebuffer, and is it possible to get the sparc mailing list archived on a monthly basis? Regarding the first question, I have tried to use sawfish, but it seems to want more colour depth. Cgoban complains that another app is using too many colours when launched, even if it is the only app running. Any advice from the other users out there with Classics? Now for the second question. Perusing the archives at 28.8 is a painfully slow process, which uses a substantial amount of my purchased connection time. Being able to grab tarballs would allow me to peruse the mail at my leisure when dowloaded and unpacked in my ~/dump directory. I would think that I'm not the only person in this predicament... Thanks in advance. -- cheers, Mike Pfleger
Re: window manager follies,etc.
On 3 Aug, Mike Pfleger wrote: Greetings. As things now stand, I have potato on my Classic. Thanks again to all who offered advice on this. I have two questions at this point; which window manager is most happy with the 8bpp framebuffer, Anyone that doesn't depend too much on pixmaps. I like 'icewm'. 'blackbox' also works well, and 'fvwm2' if you configure it so it doesn't use many pixmap icons. 'windowmaker', 'afterstep', and 'enlightenment' need too many colors. David S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: window manager follies,etc.
Although, If you like nextstep-ish windowmanagers, windowmaker is so far one of the only window managers i've used that has intelligence to ackowledge that you have 8bpp, and dither things rather than trying to steal all the colors.. Just my experience. Hope that helps! Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Aug, Mike Pfleger wrote: Greetings. As things now stand, I have potato on my Classic. Thanks again to all who offered advice on this. I have two questions at this point; which window manager is most happy with the 8bpp framebuffer, Anyone that doesn't depend too much on pixmaps. I like 'icewm'. 'blackbox' also works well, and 'fvwm2' if you configure it so it doesn't use many pixmap icons. 'windowmaker', 'afterstep', and 'enlightenment' need too many colors. David S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- `~ ~' O.O ---UUU-V-UUU- Dayton Turner UNIX Systems and Network Administrator E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: (604) 809-7742 WWW: http://www.turnerd.com Richmond, BC, Canada
