[rescue] re: Speaking of Solaris GUI options...

[Koyote]

I don't consider fluxbox to be so much a "blackbox variant" as a
fundamental reworking of the idea, but it is hands down the most usably
configurable and lightweight good wm I've found.

and the tabbing ROCKS


Nathaniel Grady <nate at physics.ait.fredonia.edu> writes:

> <snip> Complaininig about code bloat, how big Gnome/KDE are... </snip>
> 
> I've grown to love blackbox (and the half a dozen variants on it). Zippy on my U1e with a TGX. CDE was nearly unusable on the same machine. Takes very little screen real estate (little bar at the bottom). Has everything I need... I don't recall having to install any libraries to use it. 
> 
> Sawfish (the gnome WM) is also nearly as zippy. How they pulled that off is beyond me, but I was seriously shocked the first time I ran it and did the "this is *interpreted* code!" double take. Of course, waiting for gnome to start at login sucks, but if it's your own workstation you can always use xlock instead of logout ;)
>  
> --Nathaniel Grady
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