On Wednesday 14 May 2003 18:11, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
Thank you for your suggestions. The help I have received has so added to my choices that I will likely spend more time looking and testing than I will save working with the selected desktop.
Where do I get blackbox? I recall the last time I downloaded it (wherefrom, I do not recall) and tried to install it, I was told by the configure program that I needed an armload of lib and other files, which I had no idea how to get. Is the home page of blackbox informative as to where to get such files?
Thanks again
dj tuchler
On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 15:53, Curtis Rey wrote:
XFCE is also included on the 8.2 discs and I find it very fast, lightweight, and more configurable - as far as ease of use ragarding end user configurations. Another lightweight wm is blackbox. It is similar to XFCE insofar as being fast, lightweight, and configurable - but not quite as user friendly as XFCE IMHO.
And lastly, my two favorite WMs outside of KDE (Gnome maybe back in the running now that is seems more functional - the jury's out still) is:
WindowMaker; it is fast and configurable, has many of it's own applets yet SuSE has folding in access to a full range of programs via the menu. It has a couple of package that go with it - WMs own config and settings programs. These to make the look and feel customizable and the other makes it possible to tweak menus and things deeper down in the WM. The only thing is that while tweaking the look and feel is pretty easy and harmless. The other can get you into a tad bit of trouble if you make a mistake with the config tool - this is remedied by deleting the folder in the /home/<user> for WindowMaker and then relog in - but they all do this IIRC (you don't loose anything like docs, etc, but go back to the defaults). It also has many themes and looks. Pretty nice
Enlightenment: My other favorite. And I'm much happier with the latest version in 8.2. It to has all the KDE/SuSE and Gnome entries in the menu preset. You can add more if you want, but takes a bit of work since it isn't exactly intuitive to a newb/end-user - though doable. However SuSE, by popular demand I suspect, put back and configured a full set of "Epplets". Applets that are fairly small, fast, and easy to setup and use - the defaults are set in th menu already. It's very configurable and has many themes and the look and feel can be changed easily - not to mention added on later. I have been spending a fair amount of time in this lately getting reacquanted
:)
Check these out. That should keep you busy! :)
Cheers, Curtis.
IIRC - All of the desktops/wm's mentioned are on the SuSE disks. You just have to open yast/yast2 and use the search and install them. I just alt-f, alt-s, repeat and rinse until you have the wms you want.... Also, you can have them listed by changing with alt-f, then arrow down to system, right arrow, down arrow, then right arrow on "GUI" then select "other". and paruse at your leasure. HTH, Curtis.