On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Mark C Ballew wrote: > With bluecurve, you can run gnome+metacity, or KDE, correct?
Bluecurve is a theme that has been ported to both GNOME and KDE. By default GNOME runs metacity, although you can change this through the rather obscure means of changing your WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable in .bash_profile (or whatever). GNOME 2 has deliberately removed all sorts of configurability from the environment to give a certain segment of the population (no pointed fingers) a more consistent UI at the expense of flexibility. I got fed up with GNOME 2, and tried KDE. It's probably a library thing, but on RH 9, it took WAY too long for KWM to switch workspaces when Galeon was running. Even without, certain things just seemed unrepsonsive (e.g. clicking the lock screen button). I don't need all that cruft anyway, so I've been tweaking the heck out of twm this weekend. I've even got it doing a Windows-style cycle with ALT_TAB for those of you who care about such things. Plus, on those rare occasions when I really do need the gnome panel up, I just run it inside twm. It's probably too minimalist for some, but I don't need 100+ MB of RAM dedicated to a windowing environment just so I can run a web browser, a few xterms, and vmware. Twm has an RSS less than 1MB. YMMV. :) -- The DMCA is anti-consumer. The RIAA has no right to rewrite copyright laws to suit themselves. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
