On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:03:07 -0600 Job Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am debating changing from KDE/Gnome to some other, lighter, window > manager. If you ever wanted a chance to brag up your favorite window > manager now is the time. I don't know what options exists, nor do I > know the advantages of one over another. The more input the better. > > If/when I do decide to switch, I'll probably be back asking how to > install it. My personal favorite (and now the only one I have installed) is IceWM. It's fast, lightweight, has a taskbar that's easy to use, has a menu button. Lots of themes available. The toolbar can be customized, there's a configuration program for it that works well. Desktop icons can be added using dfm (i think that's the name of it... I don't use it anymore though I did have it at one time). I've yet to have a problem with it since I've started using it (as of mandrake 8.1). It seems to get little notice from most people. You hear a lot about windowmaker and fluxbox and, most recently, about xfce4 but not often about icewm. I've yet to find a drawback to using it. The difference in the 3d accel. on my video card between kde and icewm was astounding (gl screensavers in kde ran PAINFULLY slow but are smoothe in icewm. same with games) due to less use of resources, I suppose. That said, I used to use just twm for quite some time and have tried windowmaker, xfce (nice but takes a lot of setup if you ask me), KDE, GNOME, blackbox, fluxbox, xpde(UGH!), qvwm(UGH! again!), and a bunch of others and always come back to icewm. Ion was a fun one... confusing as all get out though. Could be just that I'm comfortable with it and that, in turn, could be because it's easy to get comfortable with. ;-) My 2 cents. Jerry (who rarely brags up anything) -- _______________________________________ / Isn't it strange that the same people \ | that laugh at gypsy fortune tellers | \ take economists seriously? / ---------------------------------------
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