On Thursday 12 April 2001 07:44, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:05:21PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > hmmm, i don't think you're missing anything, X does indeed > > provide a graphicall shell to run a gui on, i'll have to rephrase > > my question to, does anyone know a GOOD desktop that doesn't > > weigh a TON on an older system. Or more precisely, an environment > > where you don't have to manually configure your menu's, that's a > > plus in the windows os desktop you know > > > > maybe i just need a good read on X and gui's ? any resource would > > be welcome ... > > Debian configures most menus for you.
Unless you forgot to (didn't) install menu. > WindowMaker, my preference. Gratuitous screenshots at > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Images/Desktop/ It's running very > happily on my PPro 180MHz/256MB system (at 96MB until November > 2000). > > Other good middlin' options include BlackBox, SawFish (formerly > SawMill). Purists often tend toward fvwm2. You missed my favorite icewm (in 3 flavors - -gnome -lite). The most Windows-like wm (not counting KDE's). Which brings me to my favorite lite-wm peeve. Why do most of them lack a persistent menu/taskbar? Take Blackbox (a favorite from the posts I have read). To open a new app you have to click at the desktop (or is there some abstruse keyboard shortcut?) to bring up the app-ropriate menu The problem: how do you click at the desktop when you have a maximized app filling the screen? Ditto for WindowMaker (though I have found out there's a keyboard shortcut). Here's one problem the Windows folks have solved pretty well. A menu/taskbar that lets you launch apps and Amazon through them.
