Re: Fluxbox window manager

2003-08-14 Thread Lukas Fried
On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 07:44 PM, M. Parcheur wrote: In your personal directory /home/user/ there is a file .Xclients-default; you can edit it like this: ** #!/bin/bash # (c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox

Re: Fluxbox window manager

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:39:36 -0400, Lukas Fried wrote: Anyone know how to setup the fluxbox window manager in RH9? I installed the latest version from a source tarball but I can't seem to use it. I've added exec fluxbox and exec /usr/local/bin

Re: Fluxbox window manager

2003-08-14 Thread M. Parcheur
the file /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/fluxbox like this: #!/bin/bash exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsessions fluxbox *** Regards. M. Parcheur Anyone know how to setup the fluxbox window manager in RH9? I installed I've added

Fluxbox window manager

2003-08-14 Thread Lukas Fried
Anyone know how to setup the fluxbox window manager in RH9? I installed the latest version from a source tarball but I can't seem to use it. I've added exec fluxbox and exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox to the file /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/fluxbox (which I had to make) but it doesn't show up

Re: Fluxbox window manager

2003-08-14 Thread Lukas Fried
On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 01:26 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: http://www.fedora.us has a working Fluxbox package. And yes, it also provides session type info for gdm. Thanks for telling me this. It will probably help me a lot...that is, when I get my RH9 box running again. It keeps hanging

Re: XFCE 4 (was Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox,FWM, or something else?)

2003-06-30 Thread Zoki
Le 27/06/2003 01:13, « Stephen Kuhn » [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 02:15, Nilesh Sahita wrote: I tried using XFCE 4. Yet to determine whether it is faster than GNOME/KDE. However, the issue I have with XFCE 4 is that I can't find any menus entries / launchers that I

Re: XFCE 4 (was Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?)

2003-06-30 Thread emgaron
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:14:23AM +0200, Zoki wrote: *** The whole logic of changing a WM is not to have the same stufff as your previous one. [...] I'd say that's true for everything except the menus... One might still want to be able to access all programs installed... ;-) Cheerio, Thomas

Re: XFCE 4 (was Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox,FWM, or something else?)

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 19:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:14:23AM +0200, Zoki wrote: *** The whole logic of changing a WM is not to have the same stufff as your previous one. [...] I'd say that's true for everything except the menus... One might still want to be

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?

2003-06-27 Thread emgaron
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:20:02PM +0200, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:40:22AM +0200, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: you could use xfce. It is _realy_ fast and looks nice and modern. Modern? If it still looks like CDE (which it did when I tried it a couple of weeks ago), it looks

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-27 Thread Didier Casse
(and will be fastest) to do this: Desktop would just be with a graphic background (company name in the background), there would be only several icons on the desktop to launch OpenOffice applications and several Wine emulated MS apps. Which window manager I should go with? Use

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-26 Thread Cornelius Kölbel
apps. Which window manager I should go with? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?

2003-06-26 Thread Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez
this: Desktop would just be with a graphic background (company name in the background), there would be only several icons on the desktop to launch OpenOffice applications and several Wine emulated MS apps. Which window manager I should go with? -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?

2003-06-26 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:13:42PM -0500, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: My question is, which WM will do best job (and will be fastest) to do this: Desktop would just be with a graphic background (company name in the background), there would be only several icons on the desktop to

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?

2003-06-26 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:12:41PM +0200, Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez wrote: I use Window Maker, for my is the best one, it is so fast, what about RAM...? for wm RAM is not a problem...;-) Right. Also, Window Maker is extremely easy to configure and there are tons of themes available for it...

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?

2003-06-26 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:40:22AM +0200, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: you could use xfce. It is _realy_ fast and looks nice and modern. Modern? If it still looks like CDE (which it did when I tried it a couple of weeks ago), it looks rather outdated in my eyes... ;-) But that's a matter of personal

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?

2003-06-26 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:20:02PM +0200, T. Ribbrock wrote: Modern? If it still looks like CDE (which it did when I tried it a couple of weeks ago), it looks rather outdated in my eyes... ;-) Intrestingly enough, I feel it looks like Mac OS X, the most modern operating system out there right

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-26 Thread Cornelius Kölbel
Well I guess, I have to take a look at wm then... Cornelius T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:40:22AM +0200, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: you could use xfce. It is _realy_ fast and looks nice and modern. Modern? If it still looks like CDE (which it did when I tried it a couple of

Re: XFCE 4 (was Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox,FWM, or something else?)

2003-06-26 Thread Nilesh Sahita
emulated MS apps. Which window manager I should go with? I put my vote in for XFCE 4. I know it's in beta right now, but it is stable (has been for a while now, I was running the CVS versions), fast and nice. Uses the GTK2 libraries (so is highly compatble with GNOME apps), has the anti

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-26 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: and a couple of icons but I'll go with IceWM or XFCE since they're easy to configure. XFCE is nice when it's running, but getting it installed is a pain. Even with the RPM's, there are *way* too many of them to consider it a newbie installation.

RE: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethin g else?

2003-06-26 Thread EricRyd
] Subject: Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else? On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: and a couple of icons but I'll go with IceWM or XFCE since they're easy to configure. XFCE is nice when it's running, but getting it installed is a pain. Even

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM,or something else?

2003-06-26 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 12:55, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: and a couple of icons but I'll go with IceWM or XFCE since they're easy to configure. XFCE is nice when it's running, but getting it installed is a pain. Even with the RPM's, there are *way*

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?

2003-06-26 Thread Javier Gostling
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:59:15AM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote: emacs for a word processor... Hmm... I think you mean emacs for a text editor and LaTeX for a word processor... Now THAT almost scares even me... ;-) Cheers, -- Javier Gostling D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-26 Thread Panos Tsapralis
Same here... Having been influenced by what has been said in this thread, I decided to give a try to WindowMaker / BlackBox / XCFE. As far as xfce is concerned, I only found one RPM in SourceForge (and I don't think anything is missing). I don't like too much, though - BlackBox seems to be my

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, orsomething else?

2003-06-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 04:27, Bret Hughes wrote: Huh. I must have done something wrong then I only installed one. Since this thread started I have played with Icewm and xfce on my 7.3 laptop. I punted on nautilus over a year ago but still use gnome. Thing are faster without gnome. The

Re: XFCE 4 (was Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox,FWM, or something else?)

2003-06-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 02:15, Nilesh Sahita wrote: I tried using XFCE 4. Yet to determine whether it is faster than GNOME/KDE. However, the issue I have with XFCE 4 is that I can't find any menus entries / launchers that I have in KDE or GNOME. Is there anyway to import KDE / GNOME menus

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?

2003-06-26 Thread Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)
Well, I am the guy who started this thread. XFCE is EXACTLY what I wanted. What I did was I re-installed RH9.0 with KDE and Gnome programs I like and after that did all 11 XFCE rpms! XFCE has almost everything I need, other stuff is taken from KDE and XFCE launches it for me. I can tell you that I

Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?

2003-06-25 Thread Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)
just be with a graphic background (company name in the background), there would be only several icons on the desktop to launch OpenOffice applications and several Wine emulated MS apps. Which window manager I should go with? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
is, which WM will do best job (and will be fastest) to do this: Desktop would just be with a graphic background (company name in the background), there would be only several icons on the desktop to launch OpenOffice applications and several Wine emulated MS apps. Which window manager I should go

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?

2003-06-25 Thread T. Ribbrock
to launch OpenOffice applications and several Wine emulated MS apps. Which window manager I should go with? I can recommend Window Maker, which would seem to fit the bill very well. Unfortunately, RH decided not to include it anymore, but you can either rebuild the RH8 ones or the Mandrake RPMs

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-25 Thread Panos Tsapralis
users need these features once or twice in their lifetime...). Which window manager I should go with? My preference: BlackBox, with WindowMaker being second close. My advice: take your time in selecting and putting together the elements of the integrated solution (your desktop standard

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: Which window manager I should go with? Personally, I'm using ROX with TWM, and it flies. Note that if you use such a setup, you'll need to configure ROX's compatibility options to: 1. Overrride TWM's control of rox panels

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Todd A. Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: Which window manager I should go with? Personally, I'm using ROX with TWM, and it flies. Note that if you use such a setup, you'll need

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?

2003-06-25 Thread Brian Ashe
. Which window manager I should go with? I put my vote in for XFCE 4. I know it's in beta right now, but it is stable (has been for a while now, I was running the CVS versions), fast and nice. Uses the GTK2 libraries (so is highly compatble with GNOME apps), has the anti-aliasing of fonts, simple

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 10:25, Michael Scottaline wrote: Give ratpoison a try. No eye-candy or decorations, but fully functional, small footprint and fast as lightining! Best, Mike Actually, wouldn't that be a great migration from WinXP? PINE/MUTT for email,

window manager

2003-02-06 Thread John Salamone
Hi, I am currently using kde desktop but I would like to switch to gnome default desktop but I am unsure hoe to do this. Can someone tell me how. Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe

Re: window manager

2003-02-06 Thread John Nichel
Use the desktop switching tool. Look in your Kmenu under system. John Salamone wrote: Hi, I am currently using kde desktop but I would like to switch to gnome default desktop but I am unsure hoe to do this. Can someone tell me how. Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: window manager

2003-02-06 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Or at log in time. Just pick session, and select the one you want. Ric John Nichel wrote: Use the desktop switching tool. Look in your Kmenu under system. John Salamone wrote: Hi, I am currently using kde desktop but I would like to switch to gnome default desktop but I am unsure hoe to

Re: window manager

2003-02-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 03:05, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Or at log in time. Just pick session, and select the one you want. Ric John Nichel wrote: Use the desktop switching tool. Look in your Kmenu under system. John Salamone wrote: Hi, I am currently using kde desktop but I would

Re: How to use Sawfish window manager instead Metacity ?

2002-11-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Laurent ZUDAIRE wrote: How to use Sawfish window manager instead Metacity ? # .bash_profile export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/sawfish -- Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. - Unknown -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

How to use Sawfish window manager instead Metacity ?

2002-11-02 Thread Laurent ZUDAIRE
RedHat 8 How to use Sawfish window manager instead Metacity ? Thanks for help -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Window Manager Redhat 8

2002-10-18 Thread Aaron Rolett
I recently installed a test server running Redhat 8. Switch from Sawfish to Metacity was like going backwards, so I installed sawfish and used the following command to switch it: killall metacity sawfish My question, where is the windowmanger choice stored in Redhat 8? How can I change the

Re: Window Manager Redhat 8

2002-10-18 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:07:00AM -0400, Aaron Rolett wrote: : I recently installed a test server running Redhat 8. Switch from Sawfish : to Metacity was like going backwards, so I installed sawfish and used : the following command to switch it: : : killall metacity sawfish : : My question,

Alternate window manager in Gnome?

2002-10-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I've been unable to find a capplet for changing the default window manager in Gnome under 8.0. The window-minimizing animation is driving me batty, but I can't seem to find a place to edit that, either. Metacity seems to have zero documentation: no man pages, no info pages, and no FAQ on ye

Re: Alternate window manager in Gnome?

2002-10-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Well, I still can't figure out how to make metacity behave like a decent window manager, but I finally figured out how to replace it. (What was Red Hat thinking when they took away the nice little window manager configuration applet?) Anyway, the trick is to define the WINDOW_MANAGER environment

Re: Alternate window manager in Gnome?

2002-10-07 Thread Keith Morse
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I've been unable to find a capplet for changing the default window manager in Gnome under 8.0. The window-minimizing animation is driving me batty, but I can't seem to find a place to edit that, either. I know that removing the animation thingie

Sawfish window manager broken?

2002-08-15 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, I managed to install RH 7.3 eventually. I have currently a problem with sawfish: under Gnome, I use the sawfish window manager, but cannot manage to configure it. Every time I access the Sawfish tools (e.g., from the Gnome control center), it keeps saying that sawfish is not running, while

Re: window manager choice ???

2002-04-22 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:06:42PM +0200, Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL) wrote: I've got a small configuration(2MO Video RAM), which window manager is better to use in that case !!! I made very good experiences with Window Maker on such configurations (and smaller ones). One thing I like about

Re: window manager choice ???

2002-04-20 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Tuesday, at 14:06, Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL) sent through the Star Gate: Hi, I've got a small configuration(2MO Video RAM), which window manager is better to use in that case !!! Fvwm works well. I don't recommend using any programs that are heavy in graphics. Pine for email, Lynx

Re: Controlling a GUI (window manager functions) from the command line...

2002-04-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 19:29 17 Apr 2002, Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 09:28, Henrik Schmiediche wrote: | I am running RH7.2 with KDE 2.2.2. Is it possible to control a window from | the command line. For example, if I want to start a program from a shell | script and then

Re: RE : window manager choice ???

2002-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Apr 17, 2002, 09:12 (-0500) Fred Dech wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:17:50PM -0700, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: --- Fred Dech wrote: http://www.fvwm.org/ read FAQ and README's in spare time i guess they don't come as RPMs, so you'd want to do a tar-ball

Re: Controlling a GUI (window manager functions) from the commandline...

2002-04-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 09:28, Henrik Schmiediche wrote: I am running RH7.2 with KDE 2.2.2. Is it possible to control a window from the command line. For example, if I want to start a program from a shell script and then minimize or maximize it without user intervention - can that be done?

window manager choice ???

2002-04-16 Thread Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL)
Hi, I've got a small configuration(2MO Video RAM), which window manager is better to use in that case !!! thanks ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: window manager choice ???

2002-04-16 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:06:42PM +0200, Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL) wrote: I've got a small configuration(2MO Video RAM), which window manager is better to use in that case !!! The default wm (sawfish) is pretty good, you just have to use

Re: window manager choice ???

2002-04-16 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:28:35AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: I've got a small configuration(2MO Video RAM), which window manager is better to use in that case !!! 2Mo of Video RAM is small Why, when I was young, The default wm (sawfish) is pretty good, you just have to use

RE : window manager choice ???

2002-04-16 Thread Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL)
May you tell me the way to install it !!! -Message d'origine- De : Emmanuel Seyman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : mardi 16 avril 2002 15:10 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: window manager choice ??? On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:28:35AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: I've got

Re: RE : window manager choice ???

2002-04-16 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:23:45PM +0200, Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL) wrote: May you tell me the way to install it !!! If you're using Red Hat 7.2, it should already be installed. If it is not, then use rpm -ivh /path/sawfish*.rpm Tony - --

Re: RE : window manager choice ???

2002-04-16 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:23:45PM +0200, Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL) wrote: May you tell me the way to install it !!! You'll need to install the fvwm2 and fvwm2-icons rpms that should be on your RH CD. Use the switchdesk program to choose AnotherLevel as desktop and you should be set.

Re: RE : window manager choice ???

2002-04-16 Thread Fred Dech
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:11:58PM +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:23:45PM +0200, Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL) wrote: May you tell me the way to install it !!! You'll need to install the fvwm2 and fvwm2-icons rpms that should be on your RH CD. Use the

RE : RE : window manager choice ???

2002-04-16 Thread Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL)
To add it to the choice when starting in runlevel 5 (for the moment i see KDE or GNOME) which files neede to be modified??? Is the graphical interface in which whe can choose window manager called xdm ??? PS:please apologize my poor english-language !!! -Message d'origine- De : Anthony

Re: RE : window manager choice ???

2002-04-16 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fred Dech wrote: You'll need to install the fvwm2 and fvwm2-icons rpms that should be on your RH CD. Use the switchdesk program to choose AnotherLevel as desktop and you should be set. i don't think it's quite that straightforward; at least

Re: RE : window manager choice ???

2002-04-16 Thread hanfamily
fvwm2 is a good (fast) choice. I also hear good things about XFce in that regard, though I've not tried it. - -d - -- David Talkington I have been using Xfce for years and love it. Linda Hanigan ___ Redhat-list mailing

window manager not working properly; HELP

2001-12-11 Thread dave brett
window manager. I am running RH7.2 and was running gnome and sawfish when I last was using the computer. I would appreciate any suggestions. david ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: window manager not working properly; HELP

2001-12-11 Thread Monte Milanuk
and cannot find the configuration file for starting my window manager. I am running RH7.2 and was running gnome and sawfish when I last was using the computer. I would appreciate any suggestions. david Sounds like you somehow nuked your config files for X, so when you log into X, it starts w/ twm

Re: Sawfish window manager crashes

2001-04-08 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
"Michael S. McLeod" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running RH7, when I try to run the "Sawfish Window Mangaer" it crashes (stops). I have to use "Kill App" to close the window. No error messages are desplayed. Anybody have any ideas what is wrong and how to fix it? Clean install or

Re: Sawfish window manager crashes

2001-04-08 Thread Michael McLeod
Mostly a clean install, I have tried installing the new Helix code (Ximian) to see if it would fix the problem but it didn't. I tried to install WP8 but because the RH7 libc is the wrong version for WP8 that didn't work. I had the problem with Sawfish before the install. Otherwise I have

Sawfish window manager crashes

2001-04-07 Thread Michael S. McLeod
I am running RH7, when I try to run the "Sawfish Window Mangaer" it crashes (stops). I have to use "Kill App" to close the window. No error messages are desplayed. Anybody have any ideas what is wrong and how to fix it? Michael ___ Redhat-list

Re: Most stable window manager?

2000-08-16 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:40:01PM -0400, Statux wrote: WindowMaker is one of the best out there. :) However, the 0.62.x versions tend to have problems with 8bit displays - there has been a lot of talk about this on the mailing lists. Unfortunately, 0.62.x also fix some annoying buglets which

Re: Most stable window manager?

2000-08-16 Thread Statux
unfortunately? sounds pretty good to me :) Who uses 8bit anymore? :) ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Most stable window manager?

2000-08-16 Thread Thomas R. Shannon
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Chip Rose. wrote: Which window manager is rated as the most stable? I like Blackbox because it's fast and seems a lot more stable than KDE. Any other suggestions? Blackbox has some very nice graphics. In addition to the suggestions which have been made (all good so

Re: Most stable window manager?

2000-08-16 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Thomas R. Shannon wrote: In addition to the suggestions which have been made (all good so far), I can say that once set up, Sawfish has never crashed on me. That's saying quite a bit for such a young program. I run GNOME with Sawfish but I'm also going to chime in

Most stable window manager?

2000-08-15 Thread Chip Rose.
Which window manager is rated as the most stable? I like Blackbox because it's fast and seems a lot more stable than KDE. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Chip Rose. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https

Re: Most stable window manager?

2000-08-15 Thread Steve Borho
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 04:43:06AM +, Chip Rose. wrote: Which window manager is rated as the most stable? twm. It comes standard with the X. It's very stable because it is very simple and hasn't changed much in 10 years. I like Blackbox because it's fast and seems a lot more stable than

Re: Most stable window manager?

2000-08-15 Thread Statux
WindowMaker is one of the best out there. :) On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Chip Rose. wrote: Which window manager is rated as the most stable? I like Blackbox because it's fast and seems a lot more stable than KDE. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Chip Rose. [EMAIL PROTECTED

.xinitrc - default window manager

2000-08-13 Thread Frank Hale
On redhat 6.2 what src.rpm contains the default .xinitrc file. I'd like to change it so that it starts up with a different window manager on a fresh install. Thanks, Frank ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https

Re: .xinitrc - default window manager

2000-08-13 Thread Frank Hale
On redhat 6.2 what src.rpm contains the default .xinitrc file. I'd like to change it so that it starts up with a different window manager on a fresh install. Thanks, Frank okay I feel stupid. Its in the xinitrc src.rpm. What I should have said was where does Redhat define which window

Re: .xinitrc - default window manager

2000-08-13 Thread Frank Hale
BTW, are you creating your own distribution or something? You seem to be rebuilding a whole collection of rpms the last few days! Thank you for the explanation. Yes I am building a customized Redhat 6.2 distribution. At the moment its simply RH 6.2 with alot of different packages so its

Re: window manager...

2000-08-09 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 01:36:15AM -0300, robsmith wrote: Since everyone loves the "which window manager is best discussion"...I figured I would ask which is better sawfish or sawmill they seem very similiar to me...any major differences? Actualy they are the same window manage

Re: window manager...

2000-08-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, you wrote: Since everyone loves the "which window manager is best discussion"...I figured I would ask which is better sawfish or sawmill they seem very similiar to me...any major differences? IIRC, SawMill is just "Sawfish" renamed, due to

Window manager

2000-08-08 Thread Kerem Unal
Hello to all ... I wondered what window manager you will recommend me if I want it to be fast and easy to use (menu access to apps, for ex.). I have a P-150 and I don't use GNOME or KDE. Thanks for the reply Kerem ___ Redhat-list mailing list

Re: Window manager

2000-08-08 Thread linda hanigan
I love xfce Linda Hanigan ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Window manager

2000-08-08 Thread Thomas R. Shannon
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Kerem Unal wrote: Hello to all ... I wondered what window manager you will recommend me if I want it to be fast and easy to use (menu access to apps, for ex.). I have a P-150 and I don't use GNOME or KDE. I usually recommend WindowMaker under these circumstances

Re: Window manager

2000-08-08 Thread vik
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Kerem Unal wrote: Hello to all ... I wondered what window manager you will recommend me if I want it to be fast and easy to use (menu access to apps, for ex.). I have a P-150 and I don't use GNOME or KDE. I'd recommend WindowMaker. It's relatively lightweight, quite

window manager...

2000-08-08 Thread robsmith
Since everyone loves the "which window manager is best discussion"...I figured I would ask which is better sawfish or sawmill they seem very similiar to me...any major differences? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

Several window manager questions

2000-06-10 Thread Sukumar Thirunarayanan
) To enable X at boot time I have this entry id:5:initdefault in /etc/inittab. It comes up using owm window manager, is there a way to change the window manger at the boot time. I would like to use fvwm window manager. 3) How to shutdown if X was started at the boot time of linux . Ctrl Atl Del doesn't work

Re: X Window Manager Programming

1998-06-08 Thread Elliot Lee
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Robert Hailman wrote: Does anyone know where I could find a guide to programming Window Managers for X The O'Reilly Xlib programming reference manuals. or recommend a small ( 30k) window manager that I could use as the base for my own simple window manager? http

Changing the root window manager...how?

1998-06-08 Thread poneil
I am running Redhat 5.0 and not too long ago, I did...something (I do not know exactly what) such that now the default window manager when I "startx" is plain ole fvwm. I hate it. I would like to get back to, I believe, fvwm2 so I can use one of the alternative "flavors", i

Window Manager Menus

1998-06-04 Thread Ronald Ross
I have installed the _real_ AfterStep on my RH 5 box. I was wondering which file(s) control the creation of the menus in the default RH window manager (FVWM, I think). I want to add those menu items to my .steprc file. Thanks for helping an Xneophyte. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ

Re: Window manager change??

1998-05-05 Thread rhl
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Chuck Mead wrote: /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients On 3 May, Darque wrote: OK...I give up. I have looked and looked, but been unable to find any instructions anywhere on what I need to change to make X load a different window manager than the Fvwm that cam

Re: Window manager change??

1998-05-04 Thread Chuck Mead
On 3 May, Darque wrote: OK...I give up. I have looked and looked, but been unable to find any instructions anywhere on what I need to change to make X load a different window manager than the Fvwm that cam on my RH5.0 CD. I have D/L'd Afterstep, and would like to try that, but I am

RE: Window manager change??

1998-05-04 Thread Brown, Chris \(Wichita\)
Hello, I am having a similar problem logging in while running xdm. No matter what I do , I cannot seem to get any window manager to come up but twm. I have changed about every "dot" file I know of (.xinitrc, .xsession, .Xclients, etc..) - inserting the line 'exec afterstep' in it a

RE: Window manager change??

1998-05-03 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello, jdk. instructions anywhere on what I need to change to make X load a different window manager than the Fvwm that cam on my RH5.0 CD. This method will allow u to set a diff wm for each user .. Create a script named ~/.Xclients as follows: --- #!/bin/bash

Window manager change??

1998-05-03 Thread Darque
OK...I give up. I have looked and looked, but been unable to find any instructions anywhere on what I need to change to make X load a different window manager than the Fvwm that cam on my RH5.0 CD. I have D/L'd Afterstep, and would like to try that, but I am at a loss... Also, can anyone tell

Re: Window manager change??

1998-05-03 Thread macker
On Sun, 3 May 1998, Darque wrote: OK...I give up. I have looked and looked, but been unable to find any instructions anywhere on what I need to change to make X load a different window manager than the Fvwm that cam on my RH5.0 CD. I have D/L'd Afterstep, and would like to try that, but I