Eben King wrote:
<snip>
> Well, getting her to express a preference on _anything_ is like pulling
> teeth. But regardless, the only computer experience she has is maybe an
> hour of handholding in MacOS (pretty much only in Eudora), so there is
> no basis for comparison. I've used Gnome a bit, but mostly "no
> environment", fvwm2 on X. Given the choice of KDE or Gnome, I'd go with
> the devil I know. A minimal window manager is nice in a geeky way, but
> might be a PITA to set up.
>
<snip>
For lightweight window managers, I would suggest XFCE or Blackbox, which
both are considerably slimmer than KDE and GNOME. As for locking them
down, I dunno about that. I don't know a way to do it. Yes, there are
numerous themes to choose from in both the suggested window managers.
Paul
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