[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've tried Blackbox, fvwm and fvwm2. It's no contest.
>Icewm has more bang for buck. (IMHO, of course.)
Icewm should be very handy to use in case of someone who migrated from
Windows to Linux, because it comes straight of the box configured just the
way windows users like. Such a user
is happy to find the familiar taskbar and the windows behaving the way he's
accustomed to. Also the window manager uses little resources and has a lot of
features. These include the possibility to change the general behavior of
the windows in all the ways X allows, to hide and disable the taskbar, to
change the function of the mouse buttons and so on. Icewm may be configured to
resemble either the fvwm style managers, either the windows style.
Some features of Icewm I like
-The double-heighten type has a text area where you can type any command you
like .No need to fire-up an x-term just to type a one-word command, anymore)
- The network indicator on the taskbar which I find very useful for dial-up
connections.
- The theming engine
And I hate the fact that
The desktop has the size of the physical screen when switching to the highest
resolution. This makes more difficult to use programs like xdvi or xboing
which in 800x600 mode tend to stretch their windows beyond the limits of the
screen. Also, In X-window a taskbar is usable only when the desktop size
equals the screen size, which may not always be the case.
This is why I sometimes use Icewm, and sometimes Afterstep.
For those who like Icewm and not only for them but for the others, too, I
recommend the Cooledit package (see ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/edit
o
rs/X/ or http://cooledit.sourceforge.net/.
It includes an application called "Coolicon" which puts a set of icons on the
root window, much like windows does. It is significantly smaller and uses far
less resources than the bloated counterparts of Gnome (Gnome Midnight
Commander) or KDE.
Cristian Burneci
