[SLUG] Re: picked up a screw around rig today

From: Bryan J. Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org)
Date: Sun Dec 05 2004 - 19:00:15 EST


On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 18:43, Chad Perrin wrote:
> I use WindowMaker as my favored window manager, by the way. I like the
> fact that it doesn't suffer the weighty bloat of Gnome and KDE, nor the
> cluttered interface. In fact, it's a less-cluttered interface than
> basically every other window manager that isn't on the level of FVWM in
> its lack (in my opinion) of smooth functionality. I don't know how it
> compares to IceWM, Blackbox, and XFCE in terms of resource usage and the
> like, but I don't favor those window managers' interfaces enough to make
> the switch at this time anyway.

What are your session and file managers then?

Window managers are only part of the equation. Granted, session and
file managers are optional, but some of us like the full trio.

If I just run a Window manager, and not with a session or file manager,
things tend to be quite smaller in footprint.

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Bryan J. Smith                                    b.j.smith@ieee.org 
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