Re: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-31 Thread Colin McKinnon
Aidan Skinner wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 14:47, Gavin McCord wrote: As previously mentioned, Xfce. I use it along with mostly GNOME apps and ROX (see my previous post) as file manager. I gave up on Nautilus a long time ago. Yup, even when I had my Ximian / Sawfish / gnome desktop I had

Re: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-30 Thread Aidan Skinner
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 14:47, Gavin McCord wrote: > As previously mentioned, Xfce. I use it along with mostly GNOME apps and > ROX (see my previous post) as file manager. I gave up on Nautilus a long > time ago. Nautilus 2 is very much lighter and faster than 1 was, if you haen't tried it out rece

Re: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-30 Thread Gavin McCord
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 10:54, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Guess who got root-kitted last week. > > In my defence it was only a 1 month old vulnerability in a service which > is normally firewalled (mod_ssl) on my home PC and I did know about it > within 4 hours. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I d

Re: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-29 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Colin McKinnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > Have you tried the Debian way? > > > Sounds rather like a lifestyle change. Thanx to all for the suggestions > - I think I'll give Fluxbox a spin and see how it goes. Now if only I > could remember how to setup a window manager manually

RE: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-29 Thread Brian . O . Smith
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote: > twm is very ugly but economic as well, if i'm not mistaken. There's a more configureable and hence less ugly enhancement of twm - ctwm - that is also pretty light on resources. Brian Dr. Brian O. Smith --- [EMAIL

Re: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-29 Thread Colin McKinnon
Have you tried the Debian way? Sounds rather like a lifestyle change. Thanx to all for the suggestions - I think I'll give Fluxbox a spin and see how it goes. Now if only I could remember how to setup a window manager manually. Colin (I'll be the one with the bloodshot eyes and shaky ha

Re: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-29 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 10:54, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Until I get a new job I ain't going to be upgrading my hardware, so I'm > thinking I might just put on a different Window manager (mwm works - but > its just so ugly - and I need a launcher and file manager). Any > recommendations for somethi

RE: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-29 Thread Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant
MTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 January 2003 11:06 To: scotlug Subject: Re: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Guess who got root-kitted last week. }:^> Join the gang. I think anyone wort

Re: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-29 Thread Ben Thorp
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Re: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-29 Thread scottish+Steven . Murdoch
> Until I get a new job I ain't going to be upgrading my hardware, so I'm > thinking I might just put on a different Window manager (mwm works - but > its just so ugly - and I need a launcher and file manager). Any > recommendations for something thats easy on the eyes and the hardware? I curre

Re: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Millar
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Guess who got root-kitted last week. }:^> Join the gang. I think anyone worth their salt has been "done". It helps to keep the healthy paranoia going. > Anyway, to cut a long story short, I decided to try out > RH8.0. I'm not very impressed. Pre

[Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

2003-01-29 Thread Colin McKinnon
Guess who got root-kitted last week. In my defence it was only a 1 month old vulnerability in a service which is normally firewalled (mod_ssl) on my home PC and I did know about it within 4 hours. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I decided to try out RH8.0. I'm not very impressed. Previously