[wplug] Window Managers, Desktop Environments ect.

[Smith, Edward]

Well on my desktop (K6-2 350) I run WindowMaker. I have in the past run both
KDE and Gnome, but just have no need for the extra features. Although it is
nice that under RH7 when you add an RPM it will add the program to your
Gnome menu automagiacally.

On my laptop (486-50 8Meg) I run IceWM and occasionally BlackBox. IceWM just
seems to be a small WM with a "start menu" type interface. I mainly only use
it to connect to IRC or to do some remote work from another room. It's a
little too slow to do any real work (with X running).

-Ed

--
Edward C. Smith
Multimedia Programmer
Interactive Media Corp.
Butler, PA
(724) 284-7396


-----Original Message-----
From: harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu [mailto:harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 4:22 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Window Managers, Desktop Environments ect.


On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Luquilla Hughes wrote:

> On a P133 with 16mb of ram you run blackbox, nothing else :^)

on my athlon 700 with 256mb of ram i run fvwm2, nothing else. i really
dont get much more utility by running kde or gnome. i started out using
kde, but the little cde looking task bar takes up too much desktop space
for me. i ajusted my settings in kde so that it disappeared. then i
made it so that kpager started up with X. then i thought about it a bit
and decided i was recreateing fvwm2 with the extra overhead of kde. now i
just usw fvwm2. i have all the qt/gtk libs installed so i can use
kde/gnome applications when i want. 

sometimes i run kde or gnome to show people what linux _can_ look like,
but for me i just dont think it _should_. so i'm curious about reviews of
the lightweight desktop environments/window managers. i've heard a 
bit about blackbox. what about the others-icewm, xfc, etc. has anyone used
these who can offer an opinon from the angle of: it might not be alot of
fun to look at but it works really well.

-- 
john


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