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RE: X Window Managers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Sat Nov 28 11:49:22 1998
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Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 09:52:12 -0600 (CST)
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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On 28-Nov-98 Lane Lester complained about X Window Managers?:
> Moving from MS Windows to RH Linux, I'm amazed by the wide variety of
> window managers that are available for X. I'm also overwhelmed at
> trying to find one to stay with for a while.
>
> I definitely prefer the kind that can be configured without editing
> text files, and so far, XFCE is the only one I know about. I presume
> that the commercial KDE also contains configuration routines in the
> GUI.
I didn't realize there was a commercial version of KDE available!
Anyway, I used KDE for awhile (too much resource loading for me) and
had no problems configuring things from the dekstop for the most part.
I had to edit a couple of files by hand to fix bugs. And some things
users can't change and must be changed by root. Otherwise I made it the
way I wanted it, except I couldn't get the load down sufficiently.
I've seen config tools being released on freshmeat for windowmaker so I
presume they're trying to get graphical configuration tools going for
that.
I personally started using a cross between xfce and kde. Much less load
and some of the better tools work just fine. Easy to configure, too.
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Excuse my english; I went to US public school.
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