On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip interesting reviews of WMs] > Fvwm: Too hard to configure for me, but from what I've seen it's an > awesome window manager after reading through all of the docs. It takes > a day to a week to configure how you want, but it's well worth it I've > heard (From people who use it).
Fvwm-crystal is just fvwm configured a certain way, thats all. > Fvwm-Crystal: A nice wm for those who don't want to spend hours > editing configuration files. It's pretty easy to change the settings, > and a nice all-around, simple window manager (Probably even simpler > than Fluxbox), but I just couldn't find my groove with it; Don't ask > me why. I'm running fvwm on my laptop (49M of RAM 1.2G HDD). I have to use the vesa driver cause the cirrus driver plays up something wicked. On my friends desktop running Sid (a bit mean, I know. :-) ) I installed fvwm and fvwm-themes. fvwm-themes is a package in unstable but should install in Etch ok as it is just some configuration files and some icons and I think some perl modules. I suppose if Perl gets upgraded in unstable then it may not install in Etch. The FvwmButtons module, referred to as a Panel in fvwm-themes is *very* configurable. fvwm-themes really shows off the power of fvwm. There are lots of themes to play around with, even one that looks like XP :-) I suggest trying fvwm-themes, choose the cde theme, and large panel *Very Nice* -- Chris. ====== Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entries point to etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once etch goes stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
