* D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010610 20:05]: > > I like sawfish (formerly called "sawmill") a lot, and it is > lightweight. There are some things that sawfish won't do, such as > set the background of your display. It doesn't because that is the > desktop's job (GNOME or KDE) and not the window manager's job. This > design philosophy is one of the reasons it is quite lightweight.
Before we had Gnome and KDE, what did you use to set the background, xsetroot ?? I guess in a strict sense of "window manager", yeah, it shouldn't set the root *background*... Hall
