[rescue] Solaris on a PPC

Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez lefa at ucsc.edu
Fri Feb 7 14:02:01 CST 2003


> be present in other managers but i am comparing it to Gnome,
> KDE primarily. They are opposite philosophies.  All in all,
> WindowMaker allows you to be fairly minimalist and still have
> something decent to look at at the same time.  I like that.

Not to be anal, but GNOME is a desktop environment not a Window Manager.
Theoretically you could have WM ran as the Window Manager for a gnome
session.

> I've got nothing against CDE.  I liked OpenWindows, though i
> never used it a lot.  I have some complaints with the Irix
> manager (4dwm?) but nothing major.  It is fairly quick and
> that's my number one priority so i am sure i will grow to like
> it as well.
>
> /KRM
>
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 14:15:08 -0500 (EST)
> Linc Fessenden <linc at thelinuxlink.net> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Kevin wrote:
> >
> > > I've been using WindowMaker for about a year now (on four
> > > systems) and i doubt i will ever switch.  I have yet to
> > > have a problem with it at all, it would be almost
> > > impossible for it to be any faster and it's design makes
> > > sense.
> >
> > It makes sence to create an icon for every *open* wondow on
> > your desktop?  HUH?
> > Don't get me wrong, I kinda like WM and it;s definately
> > fast, but that*feature* annoy's me.  Now what's really nice
> > is blackbox with rox-filer!  You get a really quick
> > configurable WM with icon management to boot.
> >
> > --
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> >
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