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

[Mike F]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:38:53 -0400
Andrew Weiss <ajwdsp at cloud9.net> wrote:

> 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.
[snip] 
> 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.

I'll agree CDE isn't too bad, although it does have its quirks, but I've
grown to like XFCE 3. It looks and feels much like CDE, but it's lighter
and faster and it runs on *BSD and Linux as well. For a really lightweight
but flexible WM, fluxbox is my choice - it's quite responsive on my 486
laptop even :)