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Re: X Windows Favs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rip Kimball)
Wed Nov 4 16:33:08 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 13:25:34 -0700
From: Rip Kimball <rkimball@rigl.com>
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I have had good luck with KDE it is fairly easy to configure. I was partial to
After Step until I started to dig into KDE Desktop
Gordon Messmer wrote:
> David I Wolf wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to find the 'BEST' xwm.. enlightenment looks good, as does KDE..
> > But, in terms of usability, features, etc.. Which one does everyone else
> > prefer? Why?
>
> I'm rather partial to AfterStep. It's fairly configurable, can be
> made to look very nice, but the most important thing (to me) is the
> pager. Having become accustomed to CTL+Arrow keys to switch desktops,
> and sloppy mouse + autoraise, I'm irritated by WM that don't have
> them. : )
>
> Anyone else: are there really any other differences between afterstep
> and windowmaker? (outside of wm not having a pager, i mean). If you
> like those button styles, afterstep can do them, so WM's plan to never
> include a pager seems odd. I even remember checking www.plig.org's
> poll for favorite xwm and seeing WM well ahead of AfterStep. At the
> time, WM's web page said that it took more memory than afterstep, and
> was less stable than afterstep. It seemed, in fact to encourage
> people to use afterstep. ? That was quite a while ago...
>
> MSG
>
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