> I use twm ;-)

We used to use twm as well. FVWM allows us to give a grey bar with 
pop-up menu on the bottom of the screen. That is just enough visual 
hint for new users to find the apps they need.
 
> Allan West wrote:
> >> I still *really* like openwin/olvwm.  It is light weight and works well on 
> >> SunRay's.
> >>
> >> I have found that you can load the packages from Solaris 8 onto Solaris 9 
> >> or 10 
> >> and it works well.
> >>
> >> Jerry Kemp
> >>     
> >
> > My office uses FVWM for 30-seat labs because it's small enough to get 
> > 30 people on one server and still have room in memory for bloated apps 
> > like StarOffice and Mozilla. It's also easily configurable to look like 
> > other systems, which provides a certain comfort level to freshmen.
> >
> >   
> >>> Derek Konigsberg wrote:
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>> Right now at home I have 4 DTUs setup, where I'm likely to have no 
> >>>> more than 2 in active use at any given time.  I used to run them on 
> >>>> SRS 2.1 with Solaris 9 on an E420R (3x450MHz, 1GB RAM) using the 
> >>>> version of GNOME that Sun packaged with it.  I've since upgraded to 
> >>>> SRS 3.0 with Solaris 10 on an SB1000 (2x900MHz, 2GB RAM) using the 
> >>>> version of GNOME (now called JDS) that Sun packaged with it.
> >>>>
> >>>> What's really annoying is that the interactive user experience is now 
> >>>> *slower*, despite the base hardware being nearly twice as fast.  I 
> >>>> directly blame JDS for this (always used to prefer KDE to GNOME on 
> >>>> Solaris for performance anyways, but KDE is getting harder and harder 
> >>>> to cleanly integrate newer versions of into Solaris).  I also really 
> >>>> hate how JDS insists on using fonts that look like crap unless 
> >>>> anti-aliased (and the anti-aliasing is of low quality and generally 
> >>>> has a performance hit on Sun Rays).  (I'm also a KDE person in general 
> >>>> whenever I have the option.)  I also hate how JDS makes UI 
> >>>> configuration an obscure PITA to figure out.
> >>>>
> >>>> So what desktop/wm are you all using?  How do you get good interactive 
> >>>> desktop performance? (yes, I've read the "put GNOME on Atkins" blog 
> >>>> article, but am looking for a non-GNOME option)
> >>>>   
> >>>>         
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