Today's messages got me thinksing about Window Managers.... so, FWIW,
Fluxbox - amazingly fast, amazingly sparse...too minimalist for me. Gnome 2 - quite an improvement over Gnome 1....faster, cleaner, can be configured with themes, styles, etc. to look quite good (to me anyway-:)). I prefer it to KDE (I'm running if as my WM of choice on my gentoo 'bleeding edge' distribution). Xfce - fast, sparse, but not too sparse! Still my favorite (www.xfce.org). Terry Smith Cape Cod, USA On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 14:14, Stephen Gaffney wrote: > On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 19:01, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > > > Thanks Derek, > > > > > > I ended up deleting the .kde directory, since nothing I tried worked in > > > kcontrol worked. Guess I won't log out with save seesion checked > > > again... :) > > > > > > Thanks for your help, much appreciated. > > > > > > gaff > > > > Your experience demonstrates that unfortunately KDE is not ready for the wider > > public. I have seen my own daughter click on the little XKill icon on the > > screen, and with the words "What does this do" she killed the KDE toolbar. It > > then only requires a log off with 'save session' and the computer is unusable > > to the uninitiated. > > But we will get there! In the one year I have been using Linux it has already > > made great leaps foward. And then nothing will stop us...(Manic laughter....) > > > > Seriously. KDE is very nice and is what I use on my desktop, but it can be > > 'fragile', requiring deletion of various hidden files to recover from a screw > > up. > > > > There are more 'robust' Window Managers. Gnome is more robust, although it is > > not to my taste. Fluxbox is my current fave 'robust' manager for my > > (underpowered) laptop. It is so simple there is virtually no way you can > > break it. (None I can find anyway), but it is so different from Windows > > people are repelled. > > > > There are lots of nice WMs on your CDs and you can have fun trying them all. > > (For example Enlightenment has some if the most nightmarishly ghastly themes > > you can imagine :) (Do read the documentation on each or you might never > > work out how to use them) > > > > Thats what I like about Linux. Choice :-) > > > > derek > > > > I settled on KDE after trying the others out - Gnome didn't look very > nice (poor font rendering), and the rest were just a little too far > removed from what I'm used to, but might give them another try in the > future. > > I've tried using linux at various points in the past 3 or 4 years and > decided it wasn't for me, but this time round I'm enjoying it, and it > seems to be easier. It still takes a lot more effort to do simple things > (like change your screen resolution... grrrr) than it should, but I > guess it'll get there soon. > > Thanks again for your help, > > gaff > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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