On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> > redhat is bloatware...i'm sorry to say....i had redhat on this system
> > before and it was slow and crashed all the time...(well gnome did)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > with debian in about a half hour i had installed it and was running wmaker
> ^^^^^^
> > ....and the difference in speed is amazing...
>
> Well... DUH! You're comparing apples to oranges, and I suspect you know it,
> Kurth. :-)
>
> The default GNOME system uses Enlightenment, which is very resource
> intensive (by design), and is somewhat unstable (not by design). In your
> case, I would recommend invoking the "GNOME Control Center", going to Desktop
> -> Window Manager, and choosing "Window Maker" from the list.
I have found that if you update to the latest version of E
(www.enlightenment.org) it is VERY stable. I occasionally try different
window managers, on account of the inherent bloat of E, but I find that
there aren't any that have all the features I want, which are as easy to
configure, that don't have all the bloat.
FVWM comes VERY close... but the fvwmrc file is a PIA to deal with (and
don't even mention RedHat's excuse for a config using m4). A GUI config
tool would be much nicer (though I still would want the config file in
flat ASCII format, so as to be able to quickly make tweaks by hand).
I also rather like the gnome helix (ok ximian) desktop, and last I checked
fvwm wasn't compliant. I heard there were patches to make it more
compliant, but I never could find them... :(
--
Derek Martin
Senior System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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