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Re: xwindows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Greer)
Thu Oct 29 19:41:15 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:37:10 -0600
From: Darren Greer <drgreer@QTIWORLD.COM>
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Just wanted to throw my quick .02 in on KDE. I would not even bother going with KDE unless you have plenty of RAM. It is an extreme memory hog. I agree that it is nice, and easy to configure, but just be sure you have enough RAM. I ended up dumping it and then tryign Gnome, but I didn't have too much luck with it.
Darren
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On 10/29/98, at 7:45 PM, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
>Have you tried WindowMaker or Kde.
>
>Most of this can be handled quit easily thru the configuration utilities
>instead of hand editing files...
>
>Windowmaker has a font assigner. I believe KDE does as well.
>
>Both are far easier to configure than fvwm2... and a lot better looking.
>
>-JMS
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: j g b <jbirds@ibm.net>
>To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
>Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 5:31 PM
>Subject: xwindows
>
>
>>after tackling ppp, snd configuration and tweaking the console to
>>behave the way
>>i desire its now time to configure X.
>>currently i'm running the default fvwm2, the server is mach64 set to
>>display 32bpp
>>at 640x480(virtual 800x600) using 2mb of memory.
>>first, i desire to change the geometry of application windows, ie.
>>netscape which
>>i've done succesfully by editing /etc/X11/fvwm2. however, i've been
>>unsuccessful
>>in changing the geometry of most applications i'm running(ghostview,
>>galaga et. al). i've scanned through the .xinitrc, .Xresources, and
>>.Xclients files that i've
>>copied to /home directory(running as root) but it appears to me this is
>>not where i
>>should be looking. i've sifted through a file fvwmxxx located in roots
>>/tmp directory which contains code about these applications.( ie exec
>>xgalaga &)
>>now is this where i should specify geometry specifications? where are
>>the defaults sepecified?
>>can i use xlsfonts to in xwindows to change fonts? can you reccomend a
>>font type/size
>>to use?
>>
>>regards,
>>
>>jack
>>
>>
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