On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:52:44AM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Anthony Thyssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > No, my problems are more with Gnomes inability to customize simpley
> > and easily and its lack of detailed documentation that is easy to
> > search and find.
>
> Exactly my point.
>
> > I switch and use exact copies of my home (and login setup) on lots
> > of different machines
>
> Same here. My ctwmrc is a neatly crafted piece of m4 programming that
> well-behaves on every system and every configuration. This is
> IMPOSSIBLE to do with Gnome (and, I expect, KDE as well).
Can you give an example of your m4 file(s)? I generally
start with one custom ~/.xsession and a matching ~/.ctwmrc
and edit on every system. My env's are fairly consistant
from computer to computer and I even have CTWM installed
as /root on my Ubuntu platforms. This wm just lets me do
CLI things more readily. Hard to do with the Windosesque
Gnome/KDE.
>
> Gnome (and, I expect, KDE as well) is intended for a single desktop,
> using only Gnome applications and features. Think an average MS
> Windows desktop system. Anything more complex than that will make your
> live hell.
Yes; well said!
>
> > Because of this I have a script that symbolic links about a dozen
> > 'dot' file directories to specific 'OS' version dot files. to keep
> > them seperate.
>
> I've been told (but never tried) that you can maintain Gnome settings
> with some command line tools. This would make it feasile to write a
> tool that reads an abstract settings file and translates this to Gnome
> settings command for the specific platform.
I've "heard-tell" the same thing. But the pointers are
obscure. There are some Gnome or KDE apps that die immediately
when I run them under CTWM. Kdict is dict with a nice GUI
wrapper. Seems that I need to wipe ~/ clean of ~/.xsession,
set up KDE and exec. This creates a /tmp/.kdeXXXX or something
similar; then I can put CTWM back and the KDE apps work.
[[ I have *not* investigated this thoroughly.... ]]
Is it worth our joint effort to put together an article that
shows CTWM's features? ... .
gary
>
> > ... but my findings is that Gnome has more compatability
> > problems with CTwm, than CTwm has with Gnome.
>
> And these compatibility problems are?
>
> -- Johan
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