On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:00:48 -0500, Michael Hipp wrote: > I'm on the hunt for alternatives to Gnome & KDE as a "desktop". Fluxbox and > Xfce come well recommended so I tried them. > > The thing they are both missing is a Taskbar (like KDE, Gnome, Windows). Is > there one some way to create such a thing in some of these more lightweight > desktops? > > Something that gives 1-click random access to any/all running programs and > is always accessible is a must-have. > > Any other desktops I should try? > > Thanks, > Michael >
You might like icewm. I don't know if it qualifies as a desktop, but there is a toolbar that you can put things on. I have icons for the applications that I use most sitting on it and a clock. You put them there by make appropriate entries in ~.icewm/toolbar which is a very simple format. I use mine in combination with Gnome applications and have Gnome installed for that reason. In order to have icons on the desktop, I can run gmc. I'm not sure if the toolbar and a taskbar are the same thing though. Oh, actually I'm running icewm-gnome which I guess is different than just plain icewm. I figured I would use it since I want to use gnome apps. It may be just a windowmanager that Gnome can sit on top of instead of sawfish or enlightenment. I'm not a big X person; so I don't know these things. -- Anita GnuPG key: 1024D/9EDAC910 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
