[gentoo-user] Advice for installing windowmanager

2003-03-12 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, me again I've got my base system working with Xfree, now its time for installing a window manager, i was thinking for using Fluxbox 0.1.14-r1. I would like to use these programs is this possible within Fluxbox or is it better to use anotherone? Evolution, OpenOffice, Xcdroast, VMware,

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for installing windowmanager

2003-03-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed 12 Mar 2003 15:20:22 +0100 Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, me again I've got my base system working with Xfree, now its time for installing a window manager, i was thinking for using Fluxbox 0.1.14-r1. I would like to use these programs is this possible within

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for installing windowmanager

2003-03-12 Thread brett holcomb
Be advised that Sylpheed can't do multithreading in the news groups. It gets one at a time and you can't do anything else while it is and they say it would be a major change to fix it but it's on the list. On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:31:01 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed 12

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for installing windowmanager

2003-03-12 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Patrick Marquetecken said: Hi, me again I've got my base system working with Xfree, now its time for installing a window manager, i was thinking for using Fluxbox 0.1.14-r1. I would like to use these programs is this possible within Fluxbox or is it better to use anotherone? Enlightenment.

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for installing windowmanager

2003-03-12 Thread Susie
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:20:29 -0700 (MST) Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, me again I've got my base system working with Xfree, now its time for installing a window manager, i was thinking for using Fluxbox 0.1.14-r1. I would like to use these programs is this possible

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for installing windowmanager

2003-03-12 Thread Susie
I forgot one thing. No matter which window manager you use (tho not sure on kde and gnome) you will have to generate your own menus. They give sample menu's however of course you may not use all the progs on there or have a bunch of things you'd like to add. Some window managers have menu

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for installing windowmanager

2003-03-12 Thread brett holcomb
Making menus shouldn't be a big deal because you normally want to put YOUR stuff on them. KDE and Gnome add a bunch of stuff that they think you need - some yes, some no so you end up removing that which you don't need. I use xfce and it had some defaults but they are easy to modify and add

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for installing windowmanager

2003-03-12 Thread Nicholas Hockey
well enlightenment, i personally love enlightenment, i have been using e16 since it was released (some time ago) and have attempted to use other wm's but never felt comfortable, they were either far to plain (like wmaked and blackbox) or way more than i needed (kde/gnome) but e16 was always a