Hi Garrett, The Blastwave maintainers talked about this several times in which we've come up with several ports of popular windows managers and desktop environments.
Again, these are personal choices for people on what they want to pick. Professionally speaking, Xfce4 is commonly as the lightweight 'desktop environment' solution. The other products/projects you mentioned are moreso 'window managers' in which fluxbox, FVWM, Enlightenment, or Window Maker are adequate solutions. Some of these tools may be on the Solaris Companion DVD, but they are also available through the Blastwave.org mirrors. By the way, KDE runs fine on Sun Rays.... Ken Mays EarthLink, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------- " GDAMORE - However, I am interested, also, in having a "lightweight" desktop environment, suitable for use by system administrators to access gui tools on machines that are otherwise not normally used as a desktop. (Think of an NFS server somewhere. It is useful to be able to run smc and such tools, without paying the full price of Gnome.) The requirements for such an environment would not be dissimilar to those required for graphical suninstall -- a basic window manager like mwm or dtwm would be adequate. I'd be even happier if we got something like xfce4, which was open source, into such as an environment (but then again, I use xfce4 on my primary desktop). Yes, I know about twm. But to anyone who has not used it before, it is arcane and unfamiliar. (The initial window placement policy is likely to be particularly unnerving to anyone coming from a Windows or Macintosh -- or even recent UNIX desktop -- environment. Has anyone given any thought to providing a "limited" window manager such as xfce4, or fvwm, or somesuch, into OpenSolaris? If not, I'd humbly suggest/recommend/request that we do so. " This message posted from opensolaris.org
