[techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #468 - 18 msgs

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:37:57AM -0500 or thereabouts, Daniel Manrique wrote:
> Do keep in mind that neither GNOME nor KDE are window managers. One could
> think of them as "desktop environments", a part of which is a window
> manager.

I knew someoone would brhing this up :)

[GNOME window managers]
> These days they're using sawfish, i guess because it has a great deal of
> control for almost every feature in the window manager. Also it *has* to
> be lighter than enlightenment :) However, the GNOME control center has a
> panel where you can choose which windowmanager to use. GNOME/windowmaker

It hates me and never gets it right for me. But yes, you can. 

> systems are not hard to come by, though I believe they look awful :)

Nooo! Not true! :)

(Damn, and I was trying so hard to stay out of this thread!)

I use GNOME with windowmaker and all the fancy bits turned off, and
they look fine to me. More importantly, they work fine on my Cyrix
MediaGX with 32Mb as well as my laptop (PIII with 128Mb). 

Plus points for me of wmaker: 
	* with the settings I use, it seems fast enough for me. 
	* lots of keybindings.
	* the buttons on the titlebar are nowhere near each other.
   I still can't control my mouse properly, no...
	* I just like the look. :)
	* does focus-follows-mouse, which I happen to like.
	* it gets the focusing right, always.

I just downloaded oroborus, whose homepage I have promptly managed
to misplace. It's apparently derived from aewm. It looks fun. You 
can alter settings on the fly with a config file you just edit, 
apparently. Must try this!

Telsa