On 20-May-98 Larsen wrote:
> Howdy. I'm the guy that's been bitching about my fonts getting messed
> up when I launch Communicator. I was running Afterstep with some
> generic hardware at high virtual and physical resolutions. I played
> with Communicator running under the other two "offered" WMs, lesstif and
> fvwm95. Here are the results:
>
> No text corruption under lesstif with Communicator running, even under
> what I determined to be "torture tests" under Afterstep. However, the
> background tended to get corrupted with white dots if you moved the
> Communicator windows around (other apps behaved normally, and wiped the
> desktop corruption away if you dragged them over the dots).
>
> No corruption at all under fvwm95. I literally *raped* the thing, and
> it was flawless. This fact makes me *REALLY* nervous! I didn't
> purchase Linux for a windows look-and-feel. I liked Afterstep. I'll
> try KDE when it's officially released via RPM. I'd rather run my old
> Caldera with a limited Looking Glass than fvwm95. I clearly can't run
> Afterstep.
>
> Red Hat, pay attention to things that don't look like '95. I ignore
> anything that does, even if it works (although I was willing to do
> anything I could to break it, and couldn't). I'm an anti-M$ zealot. I
> didn't purchase your product for a lame windows look-and-feel. For some
> reason, fvwm95 works on your distribution while the other valid WMs are
> flakey. I reject fvwm95. Make one of the others work.
May I make a suggestion? I've had fvwm2 and fvwm running and used XFCE to
get a different appearance. Though it isn't the best, it's easy to set up
and modify (all mods while running). And it's easy to dump if you don't
want to use it.
My only complaint is it doesn't work as well under 8bpp (a current
requirement I have due to this stupid trident graphics board)
The rpm is in one of the contrib directories.
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