On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:23:13PM -0500, JonesMB wrote: > I am tired of FVWM95 and its apparent limitations and lack of new > development so I am ready for a new window manager. Plus I wanna try > something new and maybe break my system :-)
As another poster has said, WindowMaker is VERY nice. With Windowmaker, you get the best of both worlds. I run GNOME/GTK applications (XMMS, gftp, gvim), KDE/Qt applications (kexpress, empath, licq), and WindowMaker applications (lots of cool dock apps like asclock, wmmon, etc, and wterm). > > I am currently downloading gnome as I type this. I considered KDE > and settled on gnome. I am getting it from ftp.cybertrails.com using > apt. This is my first attempt at downloading with apt rather than > dselect and it wasn't that hard. The install page sAys I should > apt-get update then apt-get install task-gnome-apps task-gnome-net so > that's all I am doing. You also need a GNOME compatible Window Manager. task-gnome-wm will get most of them and a whole load of themes. Or you could just get one: icewm, enlightenment, or wmaker (wmaker-gnome works well with the panel). Check out screenshots at icewm.themes.org, enlightenment.themes.org, or wm.themes.org. > > All you gnome users out there, if there are any "gotchas" you think I > should know please let me know via private email. I am in digest > mode so it could take a while before I see responses to the list. I > am also going to download the gnome documentation from www.gnome.org. > > thanks > jmb Even though the docs say otherwise, replacing your .xsession with the line "exec gnome-session" is NOT foolproof. After a couple of days, gnome-session started launching my panel without a WindowManager. After about the third time I did "rm -rf '~/.gnome'", I ditched it. IMHO, its much more reliable to just put this in .xsession: #! /bin/sh panel & exec enlightenment # or any other window manager Good luck. Also, if you want to try out kde (perhaps just create a user called kde to test it), or just use some of the cool KDE apps, then add this to your sources.list: deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian slink kde contrib -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
