Re: Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-29 Thread Brandin Creech
--- José Carlos Carrión Plaza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ¿Anyone likes the venerable Motif? > > It's clean, simple, robust, pretty (for me, of course), and at last, > it's free (http:// www.openmotif.org). Are you sure about that URL? I looked and could not find it. Isn't this the same thing:

Re: Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-29 Thread Doug Ronne
whoops, I meant Alan Lord's response was word for word what I would have said. Sorry for the accidental top response. -Doug -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-29 Thread Doug Ronne
This is almost word for ward what I was going to write. I started using blackbox back in 98 I think it was, and back then on my much slower computer it was awesome, the extremely slim design made it run so much faster than anything else I could use. But to get things like working battery monitors

Re: Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-29 Thread Dan McGhee
Randy McMurchy wrote: The first step in getting something included into BLFS would be to create a hint for the package(s). If there is community interest and an editor is willing to accept responsibility and future maintenance of the package(s), there is a good chance it would get added. But it

Re: Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-29 Thread Alan Lord
Hi, I used to use Fluxbox and liked it very much. However after playing with the LiveCD, I discovered XFCE and this is now my prefered wm, simply for look and feel really. It comes with a filemanager (if you want to install it...) but it isn't that great (read: intuative as I can't work out how

Re: Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-29 Thread José Carlos Carrión Plaza
Richard A Downing escribió: I use OpenBox3, possibly the most minimalist WM that uses XML for it's configuration files. Then I add PyPanel for the 'where the hell is that app I started a few hours ago?' feeling. I use mrxvt instead of xterm for the tabbed virtual screens. I like OpenBox3's me

Re: Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-29 Thread Richard A Downing
I use OpenBox3, possibly the most minimalist WM that uses XML for it's configuration files. Then I add PyPanel for the 'where the hell is that app I started a few hours ago?' feeling. I use mrxvt instead of xterm for the tabbed virtual screens. I like OpenBox3's menus, although you need a good X

Re: Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-28 Thread David Jensen
Dan McGhee wrote: I know that I could just go find a file manager to use with fluxbox. Would I be heading for the "bloat" that I'm trying to avoid if I tried the WindowMaker-GNUstep combination? I am also willing to try this combination to see how it works and provide input to this list wi

Re: Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-28 Thread Brandin Creech
--- Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan McGhee wrote these words on 09/28/05 19:10 CST: > > > I know that I could just go find a file manager to use with fluxbox. > > Would I be heading for the "bloat" that I'm trying to avoid if I tried > > the WindowMaker-GNUstep combination? I a

Re: Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan McGhee wrote these words on 09/28/05 19:10 CST: > I know that I could just go find a file manager to use with fluxbox. > Would I be heading for the "bloat" that I'm trying to avoid if I tried > the WindowMaker-GNUstep combination? I am also willing to try this > combination to see how it

Workspace Managers, Window Managers and Desktop Environments

2005-09-28 Thread Dan McGhee
My goals in building a BLFS system were: 1. divorce myself from package dependencies that exist in some distros 2. intall only the packages necessary for me 3. make the system easy to operate for my family I have achieved 1. and 2. I've been using fluxbox and, if it were me alone, I wouldn'