clueless GNOME bashing (was Re: [rescue] Mozilla Firefox)

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Apr 28 02:45:50 CDT 2004


On Apr 28, 2004, at 3:37 AM, Torquil MacCorkle, III wrote:
>> Long live WindowMaker, BlackBox, and fvwm2, with Xaw3d underneath.
>
> I used to use Windowmaker 4-5 years ago, then blackbox and IceWM (a bit
> windows-ish with the pull up menu in the lower left hand corner) for a 
> few
> years, but it is a hair *too* lightweight, if that is possible, 
> recently I
> tried fvwm2 and really like it.

   Fvwm has been around for _ages_.  It's quite nice, and for a long 
time it was the lightest-weight window manager around, second possibly 
only to twm, or possibly "wm" under X10 (if anybody else remembers 
that).

   Fvwm kicks ass.

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire          "PC users only know two 'solutions'...
Cape Coral, FL          reboot and upgrade."    -Jonathan Patschke



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