Re: Gome and window managers.
On 11/19/00, 7:17:30 PM, Stan Brown wrote: Could someone pleas explain the relationship between Gnome and windo managers? GNOME provides the desktop and network environment. The window manager provides window decorations e.g. Borders, Title Bars and anything related with moving/resizing/opening/closing etc. windows. Is there a Gnome Prefered window manager? How do I set up to sue it if there is? If not couldsomeone give me a recomenadtion as to which one to use with Gnome? It's a matter of personal preference really. As GNOME is quite heavy resource-wise, I prefer lightweight window managers. I use Sawmill but I suggest you experiment and find what suits you. You can do most configuration from the GNOME Control Center applet which allows you to switch between window managers and run their own configuration tools. Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048
Gome and window managers.
Could someone pleas explain the relationship between Gnome and windo managers? Is there a Gnome Prefered window manager? How do I set up to sue it if there is? If not couldsomeone give me a recomenadtion as to which one to use with Gnome? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Gome and window managers.
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 02:17:30PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: Could someone pleas explain the relationship between Gnome and windo managers? Is there a Gnome Prefered window manager? How do I set up to sue it if there is? If not couldsomeone give me a recomenadtion as to which one to use with Gnome? GNOME has a standard for compliant window managers. As far as I know, Sawfish, WindowMaker and Enlightenment are all compatible, and others may be also. The most popular, and I believe the standard, is Sawfish. sam th [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.abisource.com/~sam/ GnuPG Key: http://www.abisource.com/~sam/key pgpyyNfiI7TTn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gome and window managers.
Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB Could someone pleas explain the relationship between Gnome and SB windo managers? They're orthogonal. You can run any window manager you want with GNOME and it'll work just fine[1]. SB Is there a Gnome Prefered window manager? No. SB How do I set up to sue it if there is? Change it under Settings, Desktop, Window Manager off the GNOME menu. You'd probably also need to install it using the normal Debian scheme (use dselect or some such, or 'apt-get install foo' for whatever value of foo). SB If not couldsomeone give me a recomenadtion as to which one to use SB with Gnome? Well, I like Sawfish; it seems to be reasonably featureful and configurable, and not too bloated. If I wasn't running Sawfish, I'd be running FVWM2. It wouldn't hurt to play with different window managers to find one you liked, or maybe to look at http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ for a listing. [1] There is such a thing as a GNOME-compliant window manager. This potentially allows GNOME applications to do things (like adjust the stacking order) that they couldn't normally do under X, and it's necessary if you want to use the GNOME pager or task list applets. But besides that, having GNOME compliance doesn't really matter. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell
