Re: XFCE 4 (was Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox,FWM, or something else?)

2003-06-30 Thread Zoki
Le 27/06/2003 01:13, « Stephen Kuhn » [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 02:15, Nilesh Sahita wrote: I tried using XFCE 4. Yet to determine whether it is faster than GNOME/KDE. However, the issue I have with XFCE 4 is that I can't find any menus entries / launchers that I

Re: XFCE 4 (was Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?)

2003-06-30 Thread emgaron
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:14:23AM +0200, Zoki wrote: *** The whole logic of changing a WM is not to have the same stufff as your previous one. [...] I'd say that's true for everything except the menus... One might still want to be able to access all programs installed... ;-) Cheerio, Thomas

Re: XFCE 4 (was Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox,FWM, or something else?)

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 19:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:14:23AM +0200, Zoki wrote: *** The whole logic of changing a WM is not to have the same stufff as your previous one. [...] I'd say that's true for everything except the menus... One might still want to be

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

2003-06-27 Thread emgaron
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:20:02PM +0200, 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 weeks ago), it looks

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

2003-06-26 Thread Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez
I use Window Maker, for my is the best one, it is so fast, what about RAM...? for wm RAM is not a problem...;-) Regards --- Cornelius_Kölbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hello, you could use xfce. It is _realy_ fast and looks nice and modern. I downloaded it yesterday, compiled it and

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

2003-06-26 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:13:42PM -0500, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: My question is, which WM will do best job (and will be fastest) to do this: Desktop would just be with a graphic background (company name in the background), there would be only several icons on the desktop to

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

2003-06-26 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:12:41PM +0200, Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez wrote: I use Window Maker, for my is the best one, it is so fast, what about RAM...? for wm RAM is not a problem...;-) Right. Also, Window Maker is extremely easy to configure and there are tons of themes available for it...

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

2003-06-26 Thread T. Ribbrock
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 weeks ago), it looks rather outdated in my eyes... ;-) But that's a matter of personal

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

2003-06-26 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:20:02PM +0200, T. Ribbrock wrote: Modern? If it still looks like CDE (which it did when I tried it a couple of weeks ago), it looks rather outdated in my eyes... ;-) Intrestingly enough, I feel it looks like Mac OS X, the most modern operating system out there right

Re: XFCE 4 (was Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox,FWM, or something else?)

2003-06-26 Thread Nilesh Sahita
I tried using XFCE 4. Yet to determine whether it is faster than GNOME/KDE. However, the issue I have with XFCE 4 is that I can't find any menus entries / launchers that I have in KDE or GNOME. Is there anyway to import KDE / GNOME menus into XFCE desktop? On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 08:50, Brian

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

2003-06-26 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 12:55, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: 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*

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

2003-06-26 Thread Javier Gostling
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:59:15AM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote: emacs for a word processor... Hmm... I think you mean emacs for a text editor and LaTeX for a word processor... Now THAT almost scares even me... ;-) Cheers, -- Javier Gostling D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: XFCE 4 (was Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox,FWM, or something else?)

2003-06-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 02:15, Nilesh Sahita wrote: I tried using XFCE 4. Yet to determine whether it is faster than GNOME/KDE. However, the issue I have with XFCE 4 is that I can't find any menus entries / launchers that I have in KDE or GNOME. Is there anyway to import KDE / GNOME menus

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

2003-06-26 Thread Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)
Well, I am the guy who started this thread. XFCE is EXACTLY what I wanted. What I did was I re-installed RH9.0 with KDE and Gnome programs I like and after that did all 11 XFCE rpms! XFCE has almost everything I need, other stuff is taken from KDE and XFCE launches it for me. I can tell you that I

Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?

2003-06-25 Thread Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)
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 (and will be fastest) to do this: Desktop would

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

2003-06-25 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:13:42PM -0500, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: [...] My question is, which WM will do best job (and will be fastest) to do this: Desktop would just be with a graphic background (company name in the background), there would be only several icons on the desktop to

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

2003-06-25 Thread Brian Ashe
Apollo (Carmel Entertainment), On Wednesday June 25, 2003 05:13, 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