Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-27 21:32:55, schrieb Michael Pobega: > Sounds pretty promising though. Besides running an xbindkeys > pseudo-daemon is there any way to set hotkeys in fvwm? I figure I'm > best off asking because fvwm is so configurable, I'd actually be > surprised if it didn't have a way to set hotkeys

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-26 16:50:07, schrieb Michael Pobega: > I've never liked Fvwm, it looked like it would take too long to > configure. I tried Fvwm-Crystal a while after, and it was pretty nice > in my opinion. It's an easy solution to a complicated configuration > process. ??? -- "fvwm-crystal" IS "fvw

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-26 06:40:56, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Hi, > > Having always had fvwm as window-manager, I decided to look at > fvwm-crystal and installed it. > > Fvwm-crystal may be *based* upon fvwm but it sure is not in the > *tradition* of fvwm. ??? -- "fvwm-crystal" IS ONLY a huge config fi

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:32:55PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'll definitely give it a try sometime tomorrow afternoon, but I'm not > saying I'd dump Window Maker for it ;P > > Sounds pretty promising though. Besides running an xbindkeys > pseudo-daemon is there any way to set hotkeys in fvwm

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip interesting reviews of WMs] Fvwm: Too hard to configure for me, but from what I've seen it's an awesome window manager after reading through all of the docs. It takes a day to a w

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip interesting reviews of WMs] Fvwm: Too hard to configure for me, but from what I've seen it's an awesome window manager after reading through all of the docs. It takes a day to a week to configure how you

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-27 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:47:10AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > [snip interesting reviews of WMs] > > [fvwm-crystal review] > > I'm running fvwm on my laptop (49M of RAM 1.2G HDD). I have to use the > vesa driver cause the cirrus

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip interesting reviews of WMs] > Fvwm: Too hard to configure for me, but from what I've seen it's an > awesome window manager after reading through all of the docs. It takes > a day to a week to configure how you want, but it's well

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ion2: Arguably the lightest window manager available. I loved Ion2 and Have you tried OpenBox? Now its my WM of choice for super light environments. > Fluxbox: A nice window manager, I really only use it when I'm running Also nice. I used it before O

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-27 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: >> So tell me, Why did you decide Window Maker was better than fvwm-crystal >> and what about other managers like blackbox or XFCE. All of them are >> lightweight according to what I have read. > Well, I've tried out a lot of Wi

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-26 Thread Michael Pobega
> > So tell me, Why did you decide Window Maker was better than fvwm-crystal > and what about other managers like blackbox or XFCE. All of them are > lightweight according to what I have read. > > Personally I like KDE because it is so configurable and has a very > constant look with it's apps,

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:40:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Having always had fvwm as window-manager, I decided to look at >> fvwm-crystal and installed it. >> >> Fvwm-crystal may be *based* upon fvwm but it s

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:40:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Having always had fvwm as window-manager, I decided to look at > fvwm-crystal and installed it. > > Fvwm-crystal may be *based* upon fvwm but it sure is not in the > *tradition* of fvwm. > > In fvwm the centerpiece is t

fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Having always had fvwm as window-manager, I decided to look at fvwm-crystal and installed it. Fvwm-crystal may be *based* upon fvwm but it sure is not in the *tradition* of fvwm. In fvwm the centerpiece is the the config file, .fvwm2rc that you change with any editor to change anything