John,
I would like to try WindowMaker. I have downloaded the 0.60 tar balls a while
back but I don't know if Mandrake comes with all the required libs & tools.
Do you really need automake, libtool, etc. or is gcc enough?
Does the Makefile require modification to put WindowMaker & components into the
correct directories on Mandrake? I've noticed that both RH & SuSE seem
customize their rpm's of WindowMaker.
When I built 0.60 the resulting config files were in text format. I
followed the directions to convert to binary form so I could use the GUI config
program but the conversion script gave an error. Is this normal?
Does building WM with Gnome or KDE support harm WM's performance any? I assume
those hooks are there to load the appropriate libs when a Gnome/KDE app is
executed.
I have to put up with NT and soon W2k for 8hrs at work. It would be nice to use
something completely different.
scottw
On 14-Aug-99 John May wrote:
>
> I use WindowMaker and call me a geek, but I like it better than Gnome and KDE
> put together. I
> guess the main reason I like it so much is because of the DockApps that you
> can use. AfterStep
> has about the same thing, but I like WindowMaker better. For people that are
> used to Windoze
> though, KDE would probably make more sense, but I am tired of Windoze and I
> want something
> that looks as different from that as possible
>
> I have some experience with WindowMaker, so if anybody has any questions, you
> can ask.
>
>
> *************************************
> Original message from: "Carlos Rubinstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> I believe a command that will change the desktop mgr. is "desktopcfg" from
>>> the command line. Have heard lots of good things about WindowMaker; see
>>> www.windowmaker.org
>>> Brian
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