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Re: X managers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zoki)
Wed Nov 4 18:28:37 1998
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:17:04 +0100 (CET)
From: Zoki <zokiphoto@magic.fr>
To: jmayson@mindspring.com
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, John Mayson wrote:
->Linux gives you too many choices. It's a very libertarian operating
->system to say the least. :-)
->
->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.
*** It's most matter of taste actually. I used KDE since Beta 3 firstly
because it makes the step from Windows less rude. At this point I'm
switching - allready did - to XFCE because it is a small and nifty
XWindows thingy and it saves my RAM for important things like GIMP and a
72Mb file. If you have enough memory and you don't mind resemblance with
Windows go for KDE if it's your first contact with XWindows. However, if
difference is not a problem but RAM and CPU power are try XFCE. I
recommend it. It's also easier to configure than KDE. And last but not
least: Since KDE is trying to be complete and cover almost everything it
has become quit a monster. I started having the same problem as I did
with Windows: Can't find my way around in all the menu's and sub, sub, sub
menu's. Furthermore, a lot of configuration is not documented so you're
kind of dependent on the standard config's.
Anyway, you can also try both - XFCE and KDE - and see witch one you like
most. I can send you scripts to choose which to start before loading them.
Have fun,
Zoki.
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