I totally agree on the TWM thing. The only thing I really miss at all is a nice GUI file manager. If anyone has any knows of something that will run with FVWM...
Anyway, I did something similar with FVWM95. It's very fast with low overhead. I do like the MS Windows Taskbar thing and have configured the window manager to behave in a similar fashion. Personally I don't think MS is very innovative, but the taskbar idea does get some credit in my book. The whole window & pointer idea that Windows was built on was originally invented by Xerox in the mid 1970's. - Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Reno Linux Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [RLUG] I Want to Believe -- RH9 Defaults > 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 > > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
