On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:39:38 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I now remember why I don't like it. It's too much
> like Windows. You activate your menu(s) by clicking
> the little icon at the lower left. I don't like
> that. I much prefer the ability to click anywhere
> on open desktop to get my menus. I generally run
> 640x480 resolution on an 1152x864 desktop. If I'm
> doing something at the upper right hand corner of the
> desktop, I don't want to have to travel ALL the way
> down there just to open another xterm, or start xv, or
> whatever. With fvwm2, I just click anywhere, and there
> are my menus.
Currently I have Afterstep as my window manager. That was one of its
nicer features. The others with the RH package were not attractive
at all to me. I can't recall fvwm2.
But I have hardly spent 2 hours using Afterstep so I don't know if
I could ever get used to it auto-panning. <g>
> Also, just for Clarence, the author has this to add,
> "Generally, it tries to make all functions available
> both by keyboard and by mouse (this is not currently
> possible when using mouse focus)."
> So it would appear that Clarence could disable
> mouse focus and never (well, hardly ever) touch his
> mouse again. ;-)
I shall have to try icewm. <G>
p.s. Still too bogged down to give my report on the DLink NIC problem,
but I *THINK* I can say I've not even found the DIRECTORIES you and
Steven mentioned. Maybe tomorrow ?
- Clarence Verge.
-- Using Arachne 1.66 on DSL.
