Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-27 Thread Didier Casse
Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: So after looking at the thread I started (the one about why RH90 is slower than Win98) I came to conlusion that I will move people to Linux in stages. First I want to change common use workstations to linux. My question is, which WM will do best job

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-26 Thread Cornelius Kölbel
Hello, you could use xfce. It is _realy_ fast and looks nice and modern. I downloaded it yesterday, compiled it and installed it. Rather simple. I am using kde 3.1 and it was realy a difference, how the windows popped up and moved. Right from the personal fealing it seams, that rograms start

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-26 Thread Cornelius Kölbel
Well I guess, I have to take a look at wm then... Cornelius T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:40:22AM +0200, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: you could use xfce. It is _realy_ fast and looks nice and modern. Modern? If it still looks like CDE (which it did when I tried it a couple of

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-26 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: and a couple of icons but I'll go with IceWM or XFCE since they're easy to configure. XFCE is nice when it's running, but getting it installed is a pain. Even with the RPM's, there are *way* too many of them to consider it a newbie installation.

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-26 Thread Panos Tsapralis
Same here... Having been influenced by what has been said in this thread, I decided to give a try to WindowMaker / BlackBox / XCFE. As far as xfce is concerned, I only found one RPM in SourceForge (and I don't think anything is missing). I don't like too much, though - BlackBox seems to be my

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 07:13, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: So after looking at the thread I started (the one about why RH90 is slower than Win98) I came to conlusion that I will move people to Linux in stages. First I want to change common use workstations to linux. My question is,

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-25 Thread Panos Tsapralis
Hi Apollo, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: So after looking at the thread I started (the one about why RH90 is slower than Win98) I came to conlusion that I will move people to Linux in stages. First I want to change common use workstations to linux. Moving people to Linux in batches is -

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: Which window manager I should go with? Personally, I'm using ROX with TWM, and it flies. Note that if you use such a setup, you'll need to configure ROX's compatibility options to: 1. Overrride TWM's control of rox panels

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Todd A. Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: Which window manager I should go with? Personally, I'm using ROX with TWM, and it flies. Note that if you use such a setup, you'll need to

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 10:25, Michael Scottaline wrote: Give ratpoison a try. No eye-candy or decorations, but fully functional, small footprint and fast as lightining! Best, Mike Actually, wouldn't that be a great migration from WinXP? PINE/MUTT for email,