Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Weinem
[Blackbox] > That begs the question. How then do I jump to the terminal if it's > behind a number of open windows? Use the Blackbox toolbar or keyboard shortcuts (-> bbkeys). Ciao, Mark Weinem

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-13 Thread Cory Snavely
les for Perl, although I wouldn't necessarily characterize the latter as lightweight. - Original Message - From: "Joris Lambrecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Karsten M. Self'" ; Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:24 AM Subject: RE: FW: OT : GUI Interface

Re: WindowMaker Rocks!! ;-) (Was: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces)

2001-04-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:02:05AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I prefer to leave raw function keys to low-level functions -- menus, > etc. Good point. That's why I leave F1-8 free, but the only conflict I've had with F9/F10 has been with running MS Visual C++ over a VNC session, which is a fl

Re: WindowMaker Rocks!! ;-) (Was: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces)

2001-04-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:26:01PM -0500, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:51:38PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:13:22AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: <...> > > You also have various options for opening menus. By defau

RE: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Thanks, i'll look into that so i won't be the dumb ass i'm now -Original Message- From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 12 april 2001 1:44 To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 a

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
csj wrote: > 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-rop

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-12 Thread csj
On Thursday 12 April 2001 08:54, John Hasler wrote: > csj writes: > > To open a new app you have to click at the desktop (or is there > > some abstruse keyboard shortcut?) > > Yes. Type the name of the app into a terminal. Suffix a '&' if > you don't want it to take over the terminal. That begs

Re: WindowMaker Rocks!! ;-) (Was: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces)

2001-04-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:51:38PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:13:22AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You missed my favorite icewm (in 3 flavors - -gnome -lite). The most > > Windows-like wm (not counting KDE's). > > Legacy MS Windows is not necessarially

WindowMaker Rocks!! ;-) (Was: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces)

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:13:22AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 12 April 2001 07:44, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > WindowMaker, my preference. Gratuitous screenshots at > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Images/Desktop/ It's running very > > happily on my PPro 180MHz/256MB sys

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > To open a new app you have to click at the desktop (or is there some > abstruse keyboard shortcut?) Yes. Type the name of the app into a terminal. Suffix a '&' if you don't want it to take over the terminal. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Erik Steffl
csj wrote: ... > 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-rop

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread csj
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, do

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
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

FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
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 you