Get a *real* Windowmanager... like KDE (if you're a newbie), Enlightenment (for fun) or WindowMaker (for productivity)
Why is that fvwm2 still with Linux ?
It's small. It's stable. It's fast. It's effective. It's configurable. It offers pretty much every feature anyone wanted out of a window manager until fairly recently. (ie. no funky swallowing, drag'n'drop, superpretty graphics, etc.) Hm. You know, this list of qualities closely resembles that of linux. Imagine that. Tangents:
- [ KDE ] isn't bad, especially for people who come from Windows... it's
This is not a window manager.
- [ Enlightenment ] is *the* WindowManager... that's the one you have to
I don't see the point of E. Does it offer any functionality besides just placing windows on a pretty (some think) bacground?
- [ WindowMaker ] (I use the new 0.14.1) is excellent: it's NeXT-ish,
Haven't tried it yet. I'm still using Astep 1.0. The simple truth is programs that make me edit dotfiles rarely get configured. I wish unix developers would realize this. :( -josh -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e