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

[Andrew Weiss]

On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 04:10 AM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>
> Especially as you wrote that your machine is a SS20. My first X11
> machine at home was a SS1+ with NetBSD and I am using fvwm2 since that
> time. The only exception is IRIX where I use 4Dwm (with a customized
> .4Dwmrc). You can configure fvwm2 with your prefered config tool (read
> text editor) to do what ever you want, but is still fast even on "old"
> hardware.
>
No offense but I hate fvwm.  I used fvwm2 for a while and left it for 
afterstep and then windowmaker.  The only new displays I like the look 
of with or without custom themes are:

CDE, Gnome 2 with Metacity, Windowmaker (with as much NeXT crammed in 
as possible; widgets, Gnustep, etc.), and maybe Sawfish (looks nice but 
never used it).

My hate pile is enlightenment, fvwm, twm, 4dwm (with standard icons... 
but I like it otherwise), and various other lightweights (with crappy 
looking icons and decorations).

Considering all the recommendations it looks like CDE for the time 
being... it's reasonably quick, well integrated, and not ugly.  I think 
I may add Windowmaker in the future to the CDE login list.  It's too 
bad we don't have a Gnome2/Metacity clone which is far less complex and 
far more optimized.  It looks like Mad Hatter may do this eventually... 
really nice screenshots so far.

Andrew