[geeks] What graphical environments are people here using on Solaris?

[Phil Stracchino]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:42:45PM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> I am inclined to use mainly CDE since it comes with Solaris 9, but I 
> was wondering if anyone finds other environments preferable for daily 
> work on Solaris.  I am familiar with many environments, however, have 
> never been tempted to replace CDE on Solaris with them.  I'm looking 
> for stuff that doesn't break any underlying software, is reasonably 
> quick, and is not ugly.  Thoughts regarding gnome, kde, and windowmaker 
> (my old favorite), keeping CDE, etc... ?


Personally, I find fvwm does everything I need, without the bloat of
Gnome.  You can make it look like pretty much anything you want,
including Windowmaker, and it's fast and relatively lightweight.


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