On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Ron Johnson<ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: > On 2009-07-29 00:20, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 28 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 2009-07-28 13:09, Mark wrote: >>> [snip] >>>> >>>> When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without >>>> the >>>> desktop environment. >>> >>> But what will you *do* with it? Mutt will frustrate you to no end, >>> and the intarweb has become too graphics-oriented to make lynx/elinks >>> widely useful. >> >> Why are you equating a desktop environment with a GUI? I don't >> use a DE -- no gnome, KDE, gdm, kdm, wdm, xfce, or what have you. I use >> something far more flexible and and configurable than those >> underpowered environments;and I certainly am not doing without a >> graphical env. > > You're right. GNOME & KDE have been dominant so long that I forgot about > older WMs. > > Is there a way in fvwm to have a panel/dock with applets (weather, volume, > date/time and "window list" are really useful to me) and have look like > Windows 2000 (aka Crux theme and borders, and GNOME-like icons)? > > GNOME really is too bulky and pretty dumbed-down, but they've done IMNSHO a > good job of making an easily-configured panel and a "smooth" system that > lets me customize it enough so that what I need is there, in colors and icon > styles that are "obvious but not jarring". If that makes any sense. > > And, of course, GTK-based apps integrate very well. >
In an attempt to continue with the direction that this thread is now on and bring it back to where it started, I politely suggest that you RTFM and offer you this link http://xwinman.org/ ;-) > -- > Scooty Puff, Sr > The Doom-Bringer > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
