RE: opinions

[Mark <mark@bish.net>]

My Window Manger is better then yours.






On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Nathan Yawn wrote:

> 
> im in the process of dling the freebsd 4.1 iso and i was wondering if 
> anyone
> had tried xfree 4 out yet.  particularly how well does it fair paired up
> with kde or gnome?
> 
> 	I've had X 4.0 running on Linux 2.2.14 for a few months now, and it's been 
> quite stable.  It's significantly faster than 3.3.x, even unaccelerated.  I 
> dropped in NVIDIA's accelerated driver for my TNT as well, and now it's 
> really fast.
> 
> 	Can't help you on KDE or GNOME...I fought with GNOME so much at work I 
> didn't want to spoil my home machine with it (probably just doesn't like 
> window managers other than E).  I use AfterStep window manager with X 4.0. 
>  I like the look and feel, but it's quite rough around the edges.  I 
> understand WindowMaker is light, fast, and smooth, but I just got too used 
> to a real pager to put up with the WM "desktop manager" paperclip.
> 
> 	If you use GNOME, you'd probably best stick with Enlightenment.  I simply 
> couldn't make GNOME start a different window manager.  I can make it not  
>  start /any/ window manager, but that's as far as I could get.  At least in 
> the version I have, GNOME seems a bit dependant on E.
> 
> 	Hey, does this mean we get to start a window manager holy war here now? ;)
> 
> 
> Nathan Yawn
> yawn@emacinc.com
> 
> 
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