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Re: X managers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Sharpe)
Tue Nov 3 16:44:13 1998
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 13:40:42 -0800
From: Jeff Sharpe <jeff@sfg.com>
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John Mayson wrote:
>
> Linux gives you too many choices. It's a very libertarian operating
> system to say the least. :-)
_One_ of its strengths. :-)
> Now that I've got my resolution problem solved, I'm shopping for a new
> windows manager. I realize chosing a windows managers depends heavily
> on personal taste. I have narrowed my choices down to...
>
> CDE
> CTWM
> FVWM95
> KDE
> OLVWM
>
> and I'm leaning heavily towards KDE.
>
> I welcome comments from folks more familiar with these managers. :-)
Okay... you asked for it... :-)
CDE - too restrictive, its a commercial app, yet powerful solid display
manager, I like the panel, only use it at work on various un*x boxes as
a common denominator didn't last for my home computers
FVWM95 - hate it (reminds me of a certain OS), but have used FVWM2 for a
long while, powerful in its options but both are a bit resource pigs
KDE - pretty, politically incorrect, but its just what 'Linux' needs, my
girlfriend uses its on her system but I don't care for it much.
I never used the others, but a few (I've used that) you didn't mention:
WindowMaker - snappy, slick, attractive, used this on and off
Afterstep - similiar to the above, but built upon FVWM2 and thus is also
a pig, got to admit I rather like it
Gnome (not a wm perhaps, but) - I like this project, politically
correct, built upon gtk (a bonus in my book), use this with nearly any
of the other wm's
Enlightenment - very pretty, still a 'geeks' desktop but am anxious to
see how this progresses, its getting better with each release
Hum... thats about it I think. Prob one or two others that I looked at
and never went back to. I'm also interested on views on these and
other window managers.
J
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Jeff Sharpe
Senior Developer, SFG Tech.
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