Hi Darin,
One of the nice things about Linux is the different ways you can use it
and the ability to stamp your own taste on your system.
I have two favourite Window Managers. One is Afterstep and the other is
Xfce. I use Afterstep for my user account and Xfce for root although I
change this when I get bored.
Xfce is available from www.xfce.org and is dead easy to set up. Do the
rpm thing (rpm -Uvh xfce.......i386.rpm) and then type xfce_setup at the
console. Hit startx and bingo! It's different to Afterstep but is easy
to use and highly configurable as well as not hogging memory and CPU.
Afterstep is also available as an rpm and does not need to be
./configure(d) or make or make install. Just rpm -Uvh
Afterstep....i386.rpm and then type, at the console, two commands.
1. mv ~/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc.old
2. echo "exec /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep" >~/.xinitrc
Hit startx and off you go. Of course if you download the tar.gz files
then you going to have to do all the work of installing it yourself.
Afterstep also very quick and light on system resources.
If you get fed up you can swap Window Managers at any session by typing
the xfce_setup command or the afterstep commands. You can use switchdesk
in X to go back to using Gnome or KDE at any time.
KDE and Gnome are both very good and user friendly although they seem to
be quite memory hungry. It all boils down to personal taate and there is
not (and hopefully never will be) a standard Window Manager. You might
also want to try Icewm but I have no experience of it although it seems
to get a lot of mention.
Regards,
Steve
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